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snow.white
03-26-2011, 08:59 AM
Metaphor is from chapter 7 Book 1

"the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of the male, which smote mercilessly, again and again, demanding sympathy."

I have to analyze it as literally and figuratively. I get the meaning of it its the thought of James for his father Mr. Ramsay but I am finding difficulty in writing appropriately according to literal and figurative.