This quote from "The Polar Express" is an example of what type of figurative language? "From outside came the sounds of hissing steam and squeaking metal."

-Alliteration

-Metaphor

-Simile

-Personification

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.