Pale+Mare+-+Figurative+Language+and+Imagery

Pale Mare // The Pale Mare // ** Literary Devices ** Pun Metaphor Simile Personification Hyperbole Imagery Allusion Figurative Language Quotes using figurative language.


 * // I try a different angle. After all, I’m good in geometry. //
 * // lifts the fifty pounds as easy as my tiny baby sister //
 * // rushing about like wasps from a knocked-down nest //
 * // explode like a star going nova //
 * // my heart sang //
 * // stars do talk //
 * // banishing me to the dark //
 * // arena as smooth as flour tortilla //
 * // a million times //
 * // my blood is calling //
 * // dozing like logs in a stream //
 * // cut off from their roots //
 * // a seamless centaur //
 * // bright and smooth as a sea stone //
 * // poured into a bowl and drunk //
 * // working the magic of the rope //
 * // pale as eggshells //
 * // ears up, like antennae //
 * // Hercules //
 * // cluster of stars like bunches of heavy grapes //
 * // a place where there is no night //
 * // skitter from me like bugs over a pond //
 * // rush for the gate like the tail of a comet //
 * // tail streaming ribbons //

// The Pale Mare // Imagery Quotes using imagery.
 * in the dusk fling myself down the street
 * fierce light
 * The oil hills, scrubby with ugly bushes, prickled with derricks, bunch up on one side, then unfurl into the familiar, sandy, flattened flood plain.


 * bring the hot scent of livestock, dirt, and human sweet
 * her large dark eyes
 * frantically scrambling on her hind legs
 * tinged with sage and damp dirt
 * brilliant starlight
 * crashing her spectacularly in a wild somersault
 * fine, fiery
 * under a fog light, an alien creature
 * fade away into the night
 * my step lighter