How Does Ray Bradbury Use Rhetorical Devices In Dandelion Wine

Dialectical Journal Requirements: 1/ Genre: -1st Quote: “So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous” (Bradbury 41).

The imagery causes this feeling to seem tangible to the reader, together with using imagery to accentuate the grimy environment, lack of safety and eerie mood. The “strange light, the colour of an egg yolk” (p. 302) is very pictorial. This visual imagery allows the reader to clearly picture the yellow light bathing the lounge, in the same way the atmosphere of eeriness and gloom is highlighted. The smell “of dust and turpentine” (p. 302), is another description, this time olfactory, that feels extremely real. As the reader, you can feel the musty, chemical filled air burn your nostrils. It’s as though you are right there beside Charlie in the dusty, rundown

Through the imagery used to describe the cottage, the reader instantly has a sense of calmness and peace rush over them, which helps to set up the theme of initial perception versus reality. In addition, “The town is described as the place where the train ‘halted for a breathing space’ on its journey between its two destination cities. This quaint description associates the town with restful images, making it sound like a comfortable, tranquil place” (Poquette 86). This quote from the critic further supports the initial feelings when the cottage is described in the story. On the contrary, Wolfe also uses imagery to describe the opposite feelings when the engineer actually walks into the city and to the house by claiming that “He saw the lordly oaks before the house, the flower beds, the garden and the arbor, and farther off, the glint of rails.” (Wolfe 3). Even though this may seem like positive imagery, however it doesn’t carry the same positive connotations as

Mary Shelley utilizes figurative language in this excerpt to describe the surroundings of Frankenstein on his journey home and set the tone of gloomy, because of his brother’s death. Shelley uses personification to express the pattern of the raindrops as “violence quickly increasing” as if the raindrops were a person becoming very violent. This figurative language device develops the tone by tying into the violent actions of whoever murdered William, Frankenstein’s brother. Shelley uses the figurative language device of simile to compare the weather of nature such as, “vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire”. Shelley begins the sentence with a cheerful tone then takes a

Bradbury uses a lot of imagery in the passage because it was in the beginning of the book and he wanted the readers to understand what was happening. “He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark.” , this was a very detailed phrase of imagery because it gave the readers great idea of what

Throughout the book, Walls uses many examples of imagery to create mental pictures for the reader. This makes the writing more vivid and allows readers to feel like they're part of the action. An example is when Walls describes the houses at Little Hobart Street in Welch. She writes, “They were made of wood, with lopsided porches, sagging roofs, rusted-out gutters, and balding tar

Bradbury uses similes to convey imagery in The Pedestrian: explaining the bitterness of the air due to the chilly air, comparing a highway to a stream, and using his shadow to the shadow of a hawk. First, he uses a simile to help the reader visualize the chilly weather by comparing the inside of his lungs to the “blaze of a Christmas tree”. This means that his lungs are burning because of the bitter air. This helps us visualize the frigid temperatures of the night which helps us get a sense of the time of year this story takes place: winter. Secondly, he uses a simile to help us visualize how empty the highways are by comparing a highway to an empty stream saying that the highways “ were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon

Douglas Spaulding believed he could control his surroundings using his imagination. In this excerpt from Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury used a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to establish a magical atmosphere.

At the beginning of the passage, Petry uses imagery in order to set the environment in which the main character is introduced. Petry starts off with “a cold November wind blowing through the 116th street” in order to show the environment as cold and breezy by saying the “cold” wind that is blowing around they urban city and the “dirt blowing around into people’s eyes” to introduce the setting. She then goes to further introduce the setting by talking about the scraps of paper flying around and how it did everything it could in order to “discourage the people walking along the streets.” This allows the reader to picture the urban setting by appealing to their sense of touch where you can feel the cold climate in the city and create a picture in their mind of garbage and paper flying around and hindering the people’s lives. Petry uses this in order to highlight Lutie Johnson’s eventual introduction to the urban setting and her unfamiliarity with the urban by letting us predict the challenges Lutie Johnson will soon face there. Petry is able to create images in our head in order to show Lutie Johnson in the urban setting; you are able to feel the cold,

In Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize the imagination of Douglas. Through using rhetorical devices the author is trying to make the reader see Douglas summer as the way Douglas sees it. In lines 1-30, the author uses similes and metaphors to show how Douglas compares two different things. In the quote," trees washed together, he flashed his gaze like a beacon" the author is comparing the trees to water and Douglas gaze to a lighthouse, which reinforces how the author is using imagery to show Douglas magical imagination.

A world open to infinite possibilities is the best experience for a child, and even more when that child as an imagination overflowing. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion wine, the author uses literary terms to contribute white the atmosphere of fantasy. Bradbury employs a series of rhetorical devices at the beginning of the passage to emphasize the first morning of summer and Douglas Spaulding is excited about it. The author uses personification in “at ease in bed”. He uses personification when “the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world.”

Ray Bradbury’s use of figurative language,such as metaphors and symbols they are strongly connected to critical arguments.Bradbury wants to give people literature structures while they read.When he use those structures, the novel will become more entertaining. Montag uses metaphors variety of times throughout the novel.”There are five

We all believed in the wonders of magic as children. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine, he uses a variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize the magical atmosphere conveyed in the passage. Bradbury uses an array of figurative language to begin to characterize the mysterious atmosphere in the passage. Douglas’ third-story bedroom appeared to be “riding high in the June wind” giving him “tall power.”

The sea is conveyed as the dominant setting in the short fiction for it is apparent that it surrounds the additional elements incorporated in this passage. With the aid of McDunn such atmosphere is assureds due to the cryptic depiction of the sea he provides when he describes the sea as unknown. McDunn frankly states that the sea is mysterious when he thoughtfully says “The mysteries of the sea”, he further metaphorically declares that it is a damned snowflake for “It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colours, no two alike” this portrays the sea as undefined, not having a fixed appearance. Bradbury use of a simile aids in helping the audience visualize the sea without giving a forthright description, this additionally aids the mysterious mood he set out to create. It also describes its distinctiveness in the sense that it is multifarious in shape and colour and is constantly transforming into something else. Throughout the reading McDunn voices how peculiar the sea is, this furthermore supports the idea that the sea is “strange” and abnormal as well as the fact that it is the residence of the menacing monster. By means of the description of the sea Ray Bradbury was able to communicate the mysteries it beheld, whilst creating a suspenseful and enigmatic

The next literary device used in this short story is personification. Personification shows in the text, "The trees which were already brown and beginning to tremble with a wintery shave." The passage indicates personification because trees do not tremble. Because of this representation, Maupassant is trying to explain what the season and the surroundings are like as well as its effect on the setting.