What Are The Rhetorical Devices Used In Life Of Pi

The words I’ve found that are significant to the plot, character, setting, and theme, and decoded are; marauding, pandemonium, forlorn, improbability, and crystalline. I came across the word “marauding” in page 119 and the meaning it is going about in search of things to steal or people to attack. In this case the hyena was one of the characters in this story who’ve ended up marauding, it did not attack Pi or steal anything from him, but it did attack and kill its fellow boat mates one by one starting off with killing and eating the zebra, then the orangutan last before the tiger, whom Pi named Richard Parker, had revealed itself after hiding in the bottom of the life boat and killed the hyena. The next word I found that can relate to the plot is in page 113, which is “pandemonium”. The word pandemonium means wild and noisy disorder or confusion, or uproar. I thought that this best fit into the plot of the story because imagine what it would’ve been like to be Pi, to manage surviving out of a sinking ship and knowing that all your family members have died in the ship as it sunk deep into the ocean and being stuck in a lifeboat with wild animals not knowing if or when they’re going to eat you. It must have been a
This best suits the theme of the story because it is improbable that Pi and Richard Parker will both survive in the end, it is improbable that Pi was even with all these wild animals in the beginning maybe the heat and dehydration was getting onto him, it is improbable that Pi’s parents will be alive as a plot twist, it is improbable they’ll find any help from other survivors, if there are even any, it is improbable that they will even get any help. The whole story so far has convinced the reader that Pi and Richard Parker are lost and hopeless and have nowhere to