News of a Kidnapping
What metaphors are used in News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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Though News of a Kidnapping is written in an unadorned, journalistic style, the sentences tend to be declarative. There is a marked absence of simile and metaphor otherwise found in García Márquez's novels and short stories.