Preservation

Evidence(Text) | techniques/devices featured in quote (Style) | Figurative analysis specific to each quote(Effect) | Connections to theme / society / culture AND implications on character & conflict(Meaning) | First and last sentences with ellipses between and page number. | Appropriate and relevant literary devices/techniques on display in your quote | Analysis that is detailed, insightful, and includes discussion of the specific literary devices mentioned in “techniques/devices” section. | Relate your evidence and analysis to larger cultural, thematic, character, archetypal, or conflict-based issues seen in your work. You may reference additional quotations, or comment upon how you might use this evidence in your essay. | “I awoke once during the night...and went back to sleep” (177). | Visual Imagery: “The moon was a sharply defined crescent...The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance...” Personification: “The sea lay quietly, bathed in a shy, light-footed light”Anaphora: “The volume”Analogy: “Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness”Paradox: Life is so small/insignificant, it is important.Simile/Allusion: “I felt like the sage Markandeya”Loose Sentence: “I felt like the sage...everything that there is.”Metaphor: Pi’s experience this night reflects that of the sage, witnessing an uncomfortable truth, before being wokenSyntax: Brief sentences “And I could accept this. It was all right” ()Inversion: “My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized” | The visual imagery illustrates the beauty of the night and emphasizes creation to build up to Pi’s revelation of how small he is compared to the world. The sea is personified as tranquil “bathed in a shy...light” to create this false image of peace, but then reveals it is vast and limitless to also capture the wide expanse of the world. The anaphora of “the volume” emphasizes the depth of the world and add another dimension to the huge world that Pi finds himself in. The analogy