Ground Zero Figurative Language

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In Essay Ground Zero written by Suzanne Berne shares her experience of her visit to Ground Zero in Manhattans financial district where the World Trade Center was before the tragic event of September 11. While she shared her experience, the author used imagery, figurative language, to describe her experience during her visit. Berne repeatedly used imagery. There is an example in paragraph nine when there is a description of things that were in the cemetery like American flags, photographs, baseball hats, flowers, etc. In figurative language, she uses an example of metaphor in the first sentence when she says "Ground zero is a great bowl of light, an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand." she compares Ground Zero with a