Erasure Metaphors and Similes

Erasure Metaphors and Similes

like a bicycle

After the narrator meets Linda in a bar, Linda hugs him tightly and he remembers the way that Linda had felt like in bed. The narrator uses a simile in which he compares how Linda had felt in bed to a bicycle: "She wrapped me up in a hug and I remembered how much like a bicycle she had felt in bed." The narrator uses this metaphor for sex.

The voices of the artistic purists

The narrator uses a simile in which he compares the scratch of overuse in the voices of the people who screamed at his sister calling her a murderer to the twisting of metal. The simile enhances the perception of the voices of the purists as hoarse and cracked: "Their voices had the scratch of overuse, like the twisting of metal."

sweatin like a f*ckin pig

After having a dream in which the narrator of "My Pafology" kills his mother, the narrator wakes up soaked in sweat and he uses a simile to compare the way he was soaking in sweat to the sweating of a pig. This particular language use enhances imagery: "I wake up and I’m just soaked in sweat, been sweatin like a f*ckin pig."

giant jugs metaphor for breasts

The narrator in My Pafology uses the term "giant jugs" as a metaphor for Cleona's breasts. Additionally, he compares the flopping of Cleona's breasts to big pillows and bags of sand. The use of these similes enhances imagery: "Those giant jugs just flop there like big pillows, like bags of sand."

Act just like a punk

When Tito asks the narrator why he scared Yellow, the narrator uses "punk" to refer to Yellow, a metaphor for a worthless person: “Sometimes he act just like a punk. You think he a punk?”

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