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English, 22.07.2019 08:30, naz731

English urgent - one question! "but what is strange about these people is their invisibility. for several weeks, always at about the same time of day, the file of old women had hobbled past the house with their firewood, and though they had registered themselves on my eyeballs i cannot truly say that i had seen them. firewood was passing—that was how i saw it. it was only that one day i happened to be walking behind them, and the curious up-and-down motion of a load of wood drew my attention to the human being underneath it. then for the first time i noticed the poor old earth-coloured bodies, bodies reduced to bones and leathery skin, bent double under the crushing weight." in this excerpt from george orwell's essay marrakech, the author uses figurative language as a literary device. in 3-5 sentences, identify and describe one example of figurative language from the text, and explain how orwell uses this device to support his view of the british empire. include evidence from the text to support your answer.

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