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What metaphors are used in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid?

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Example of Metaphor:

Always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?

The words feel” and “squeeze” are a metaphor for sexuality.

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