My First Goose
What metaphors are used in My First Goose by Isaac Babel?
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One example of Babel's use of figurative language is when the narrator describes "the dying sun, round and yellow as a pumpkin" and "giving up its roseate ghost." This sentence uses a simile as well as a religious reference—to the roseate ghost, or the ghost of Christ. This is what is known as a "mixed metaphor," in which the sun is a pumpkin, but also has a ghost.
My First Goose