Which figurative language comes across most clearly in this excerpt from t. s. eliot's "preludes"? the winter evening settles down with smell of steaks in passageways. six o'clock. the burnt-out ends of smoky days. and now a gusty shower wraps the grimy scraps of withered leaves about your feet and newspapers from vacant lots; the showers beat on broken blinds and chimney-pots, and at the corner of the street a lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. and then the lighting of the lamps. irony imagery repetition hyperbole euphemism

B) Imagery.

Explanation: Imagery is a literary device that consists in the use of figurative language or detailed descriptions in order to evoke the senses of the reader and to create a mental picture. In the given excerpt from T. S. Eliot's "Preludes" we can see a clear example of the use of imagery, in phrases like "With smell of steaks in passageways," "Of withered leaves about your feet," etc.

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

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a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.