Metaphors In The Highwayman

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Have you ever wondered about a story? In the story The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, There is a really bad guy who steals stuff all the time. There is a girl named Bess and she likes the Highwayman, But there is a guy named Tim who likes Bess the highwayman's girlfriend. Tim listens to the Highwayman talk to bess. Tim gets the redcoats to come and try to get the highwayman, But Bess shoots herself to warn the highwayman from coming. One of the poetic devices I thought was good is the way he used the metaphors. One metaphor he used was Tim’s eyes were compared to hollows of madness. I thought that was cool because usually in other stories they compare people’s eyes to nice things like rainbows or something. The author made a switch and Tim was crazy mad about the highwayman. Tim did like the girl and he didn’t like the highwayman so that is why he did that to the him. Bess did not know that Tim liked her but she didn’t like him anyways. …show more content…

I like similes the best because I think they work really good in stories like this one. The simile that I thought worked good was when the author compared Tim’s dumbness to a dog. I like this one because in the story Tim listened to what the highwayman had to say to Bess, and that is how the redcoats found out about his trip and when he was coming back. I think it was smart for Tim to listen to him because he wasn’t a good guy, and he needed to go to

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