Figurative Language And Imagery In Oranges By Gary Soto

In Oranges by Gary Soto he uses figurative language as in, similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery. An example of a simile that Gary soto used in his poem, Oranges is, “ Fog hanging like old coats between trees.” If he had not added in that one sentence it would make an entire two or three lines more plain and more hard to understand. An example of Imagery would be, ” As I walked toward her house, the one whose porch light burned yellow.” If he didn’t add that we wouldn’t have that image pop up in our head of the porch light burning yellow to make the bugs go away. If Gary Soto wouldn’t have used figurative language I wouldn’t have understood the poem as well as I did.