What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee? People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. metaphor alliteration hyperbole euphemism oxymoron
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@King.Void. this doesn't help
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/euphemism?s=t i looked up the definition of the word that i thought best fit, so here it is. Click on the link and see if you think the answer i have matches your thoughts! What a coincidence that my school is reading this novel right now too! (At least we both have a good understanding of the question then) :) hope this helps!!
It could be an alliteration as well, since the writer keeps using "nothing" over again.
euphemism
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