To Kill A Mockingbird Figurative Language

“Don’t blame me when he gauges your eyes out” said Jem when introducing the Radley house to Dill. This shows how the town is scared of the Radley family although they don’t know much about them. This is important because without the Radley mystery half of the book wouldn’t have been written. It also shows many different types of rhetorical devices and figurative language. When Dill arrives in Macomb and Jem and Scout show him around town they stopped at the Radley house and describe it as a scary place, which does nothing but intrigue Dill to want to know more. Except he is to scared to do it himself so he dared Jem to touch the house. This makes Jem say “I hope you got it through your head that he’ll kill us” (17 Lee) Which shows that Jem is scared. This is important because it shows that even though they have lived in Macomb their whole lives Jem is still scared to go near the house. The meaning of the passage is how Jem is scared
For example it shows imagery when Jem says that “when he guages your eyes out” (17 Lee) He says he will gauge his eyes out when he could have just said that he would kill him. Another device it shows is repetition. In the passage it repeats the word “scared” multiple times. Which also appeals to pathos because it gives it an emotion of being scared or afraid. They also show dialog when Dill and Jem are talking to each other about doing the dare. Another example of a rhetorical device is there is a pattern. Jem gets dared to do something “when I dared him to jump off the house” (17 Lee) and when Dill dared him to touch the house. Then, He uses his sister to try to get out of it. “If I got killed what would become of you?” (Lee 17) and “Jem had a little sister to think of” (17 Lee). Then, he ends up doing it and forgets his responsibility to his sister completely. It happens both when he was dared to jump off the roof of the house and the Radley