Lemon Brown Figurative Language

The Treasure of Lemon Brown

There are many ways that writers use to help us visualize their story. The author of The Treasure of Lemon Brown uses a lot of descriptive and figurative language to make the story real . When he uses phrases such as, ”Never compare your weakness to other people’s strengths. This text is about the history of this little boy trying to play basketball but, his dad doesn’t want him to play, he wants him to study a lot a be a good kid in school but, after a discussion his son goes out for a walk and he founds an old house and he goes in and found a something that is gonna create a lot of drama .” In the story “the treasure of lemon brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the author uses descriptive and figurative language to develop the mood and the characters in the story.
The author uses metaphors, for example: “Yes, he was stone, stone dead.”. By describing the old man as, “stone dead,” we can understand that he would not move again, just like how stone doesn’t move. The author also uses personification for example :“All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim..”. By using personification of death, we can understand that the narrator keeps waiting for the old man to