Post A quarter 3 week 3 Figurative language

1. "But the idea that morale alone could conquer, Foch warned, was an "infantile notion"(32). This is both irony and foreshadowing because even though a fellow French man warned the French army, the army ignored him due to their pride. It is foreshadowing because it warns that something bad will happen if the French believe moral and pride alone will win a war.

2. "A battle won is a battle which one will not confess oneself beaten" (32). This is figurative language because its ironic that the French believe that they can charge recklessly into a battle without reprecussion.

3. "That bland and imbecile attachment to the most visible of all colors," wote Messimy afterward, "was to have cruel consequences"(38). This is figurative language because it is forshadowing again what will happen to the French since they choose pride over reason.