Excerpt from dombey and son
charles dickens
dombey sat in the comer of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and son lay tucked up warm in a little
basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were
analogous to that of a multin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. dombey was about eight and
forty years of age. son about eight-and-forty minutes dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made
man, too stem and pompous in appearance to be prepossessing son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an
undeniably fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. on the brow of dombey. time and his
brother care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time-remorseless twins they are for striding
through their human forests, notching as they go-while the countenance of son was crossed with a thousand little creuses.
which the same deceitful time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a
preparation of the surface for his deeper operations
how does the author use figurative language in paragraph one?
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the use of a metaphor compares the father with the son
the use of hyperbole exagerates the ages of father and son
the use of personification gives time and care human qualities
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the use of an idiom shows the passage actually isnt about a baby.