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Use Of Figurative Language In Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
In Ray Bradbury's novel " Dandelion Wine' the author uses an array of figurative language to reiterate his novel.
At the rudiment of the novel the author uses personification through lines 4-5 and similes through lines 15-17. Lines 4-5 explain that , " the berating of the world was long and warm and slow." When the author explains , " the breathing of the world " and "long and worm," in the same sentence its insinuating that the earth has life. In the midst of the passage the author asserts an array of diction through lines 37-38. Lines 37-38 display a fantasy diction, "sorcerer's tower sleep with thunder and visions to wake before the crystal jingle of milk bottles and preform his ritual magic" in the same sentence its conveying

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