Figurative Language In Band Of Brothers

To most authors, a non-fiction war book may seem challenging in that it’s difficult to capture the soldiers’ emotions as well as the intensity of the battles. Stephen Ambrose embraced this challenge and created a new way to retell history from the accounts of those who were there. By writing the novel Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose managed to use the literary elements point of view and figurative language in quite intriguing ways creating vivid illustrations for the reader. The point of view in the novel is third person, but it’s different from other authors’ styles. An example is how the facts are translated into his own words from documents or books. His facts seem to be more important to him rather than the novel, due to the emphasis on certain information. An example would be how he listed the pay grade of a rank when all that needed to be said was the rank itself (i.e. O-1 v.s. Lieutenant). Ambrose had also done something interesting, switching to first person but not with him speaking. One of the soldiers interviewed for the novel was possibly requested to write his perspective or Ambrose had the intention of making it seem …show more content…
In all the battle scenes, Ambrose using very gruesome adjectives as well as very descriptive ones. With this, he manages to get across the impact and sacrifice of battle as well as painting a picture that anyone could see without leaving out a single piece of landscape that may alter one’s image of the scene. Even when it’s not about a combat scene, he uses a large amount of adjectives to ensure that his image of what is real can be pictured in someone else’s head. Other than the adjectives, almost all of the writing is strictly to the point about stating what “exactly” happened throughout the time of the novel. All of this stands out in it’s own way to where it seems normal, but when dissected is completely

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