The narrator states that the people would “walk up on the air like climbin’ up on a gate.”
What image does this simile create in the reader’s mind?
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This simile creates an image of freedom in the reader's mind.

Explanation:

The image that is created in the reader's mind refers to what the reader imagines when reading these lines.

These words give an image of freedom. These people from Africa who wanted to fly like birds, to be free. But they were captured by slavery, and as the author of the text says, these people "forgot to fly."

If we look at a more extended quote we will see the following words:

"Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin 'up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin' against the blue up there. "

Here it can be interpreted how these people believe in magic, and in flying, and in being free.

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while his customary satire is present in mark twain's short story "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," there is a cloaking of this satire as twain's narrator is not directly involved. another literary device that you could build a thesis around is the use by twain of hyperbole.

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