Figures of Speech in Night of the Scorpion

  1. Flame feeding on my mother – Personification, alliteration
  2. Parting with his poison – Alliteration
  3. Diabolic tail in the dark room – Alliteration
  4. Risk the rain – Alliteration
  5. Poison purify – Alliteration
  6. herb and hybrid – Alliteration
  7. Stung by a scorpion – Alliteration
  8. Through and through – Alliteration
  9. Diabolic tail – Metaphor
  10. Buzzed – Onomatopoeia
  11. Tame and poison – Hyperbole
  12. Peace of understanding – Irony
  13. They clicked their tongue – Onomatopoeia
  14. Candle, lantern – Assonance
  15. Buzzed, hundred – Assonance
  16. Mother’s blood – Assonance
  17. Like swarms of flies – Simile
  18. Scorpion is the evil one – Metaphor

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