Old Man And The Sea Figurative Language

The author’s writing in the passage from The Old Man and the Sea is written with figurative language, cacophonous words and negative connotations and expressions on mental images with mixed thoughts. In this two paged passage Santiago goes to fish in the ocean in his skiff and caught a Marlin. While he finished catching the fish he runs into the sharks during his way back home. The writer Ernest Hemingway incorporates figurative language into his writing. Mostly and mainly on comparing things to a shark: “. . . Identified them as shovel-nosed sharks by the brown triangular fin and the sweeping movements of the tail.” (Hemingway 107). This statement gives a visual thinking of how the shark may look like and its physical appearance. Much