Similes In Devon School

The narrator uses similes, metaphor and imagery to describe Devon. This gives us a much better understanding of the narrator’s memories that he had in Devon school. For example the narrator says “I didn’t entirely like this new glossy new surface, because it made the school look like a museum,(1)”. In this the narrator uses a simile in which he says the glossy surface makes his school appear as a museum. Another example of the narrator using figure of speech to describe Devon is when he says “ It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the river bank forbidding as an artillery piece”(13). In this instance the narrator simile to describe the tree he thought he was looking for by calling it a forbidding piece of artillery. This means that the Narrator had a crucial connection with that tree.
In this the narrator describes how the dormitories look with attention to detail from the color of the brick to the plants on it, then he describes the the ramshackle salient which is essentially a devastated piece of land that juts out to form an angle. The narrator also uses metaphors to describe Devon. An example would be when the narrator says ” The tree was tremendous, an irate steely black steeple beside the river”. The meaning of this metaphor was that when Gene the narrator was a child he compared the tree to an irate black steeple. From this you can see how the narrator uses similes metaphors and imagery to describe