Figurative language is any wording that helps create an enhanced picture in the
reader's mind of what is going on. In its broadest sense, it can include any number of
deliberate techniques that enhance the effectiveness of the writing (see
devices).
Hawthorne adopts a slightly archaic style so that
hisseems a little unnatural, but not so much as to be fully off-putting: "Betimes on the
morning of the day" is slightly archaic.
Descriptions of the
"little metropolis" draw on prior symbols.had earlier been described as having lost
her human warmth and womanhood and as becoming like a statue; here her face is
"marble" and she is "actually dead."had been described as lacking humanity
and is again described as a "bird" flitting about.
Reading the
heart is idiomatic and cliche, but it also connects to Hawthorne's enterprise in The Custom
Houseto craft a type of, which he calls Romance, that involves such imaginative acts of reading,
in comparison...
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