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Figurtive Language In Cynthia Rylant's In November
I can determine the author's style in the story ,In November. Cynthia Rylant, likes to use figurtive language in her story. The one that she likes to use the most is personification. An example she used was ,"The tree's spreaded there arms like dancers." This is personification because it is a tree pretending to be a dancer. In fact plants and animals can't do human things. Her style of writing is very funny and she used a lot of figurtive
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