Corpses of Dresden

   The literary term 'metaphor' serves as an example of Slaughterhouse Five: "The corpses did not smell bad in the beginning, but were wax museum displays."
   I saw this quote's significance when I re-read it. Vonnegut uses a metaphor in order for the reader to imagine the stiffness of the bodies.
   I find it interesting that Vonnegut compares the dead with the figures from a wax museum. The author could have said that the dead did not smell too terribly, and that they looked like fake people. Instead, "The corpses did not smell bad in the beginning, but were wax museum displays" paints a more vivid image of how the bodies' stiffness gave off a fake, yet very real look.