In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there are many metaphors. St. Petersburg symbolizes America or society, and going to Jackson Island symbolizes leaving society (the storm is showing the dangers of this).
You see, we are reading Tom Sawyer in English right now. I believe some of Mark Twain's metaphors are puns toward society. Such as, "I would rather be Sherwood Forests a day than President of the United States forever." He is kind of bringing down our society.* If anyone else has any other metaphors, please post! I have to write a paper over it! ://
p. 22 ch. 3 "Mary danced in, all alive with joy of seeing home again after a age-long visit of one week to the country, he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other."
An example of a simile in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is when Tom says "Injun Joe was still standing in his same place, dark and threatening as ever." This compares Injun Joe's appearance to darkness and threat.
"He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done."
Through pages 5-8, when Tom is getting into a fight with a city kid. He and the other kid both say that they have older brothers that will beat up the other, but the reality is that neither of them have older brothers.
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there are many metaphors. St. Petersburg symbolizes America or society, and going to Jackson Island symbolizes leaving society
A Simile from Tom Sawyer is "Tom was white as a sheep.".
Some can be found on pages 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 197. Those are the ones that I know about but there's definitely more!
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on pg. 11, Tom exaggerates to Ben about how fun whitewashing the fence is so he can get out of doing it, while in reality, whitewashing the fence is really a tedious chore.
The simile "the cat jumped like a basketball player" is from Chapter 6 of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. It can be found on page 48 of the Penguin Classics edition.
In Chapter 12 of "Tom Sawyer," an example of alliteration is "sid was clawing for some soft."
An example of alliteration from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is "tumbled tell-tale tongue." This phrase has the "t" sound repeated at the beginning of each word.
An example of alliteration in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is "trembling tongue" which appears in Chapter 24 when Tom is testifying in court. It emphasizes Tom's nervousness and fear through the repetition of the "t" sound in both words.
Tom Sawyer is lazy and only helps when he has to. Mostly he finds ways for others to do the work. A great example is the fence painting.
Tom Sawyer's middle name is "Sawyer."
Tom Sawyer pretended to be reluctant.
Tom Sawyer is shot in Chapter 32 of Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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HuckleBerry Finn.
Tom Sawyer is performed by Rush