Rhetorical Devices Used In Dandelion Wine

The atmosphere of summer and how Douglas Spaulding uses his imagination to survive the long-lasting cruel summer. In Ray Bradbury novel Dandelion Wine the author asserts a variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize how the atmosphere is. In lines 1-30 the author uses different types of rhetorical devices to show how slowly the summer was going. For example, "the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow." Bradbury uses polysyndeton to show how slow-moving the summer was going in Douglas's point of view. The author intentionally asserts "let summer idle" so that the readers can have the concept that it's actually personifying the summer with not doing anything, just seeing the summer pass by. On line 14, Bradbury's uses hyperbole to show how vivid Douglas Spaulding imagination is …show more content…
A example of this is when the author asserts "opened baleful dragon eyes" implying that we can actually see how the dragon drastically open it's eyes. The author also gives in clues that there were old people around, "Miss Helen Loomis!... cough, get up, take pills, move around!" Furthermore, Bradbury uses visual and sonic imagery to describe the atmosphere. "Hot blue sparks" and "baseball sponged deeped in wet lawns" to characterize how bright the sparks are and to draw a picture on how the lawn was being sucked in. He continues to do this by utilizing sonic imagery, "Clock alarms tinkled faintly", asserting that there were alarm clocks going around. On line 85, the author uses a metaphor "conducting an orchestra", this does not meat that Douglas is actually conducting an orchestra instead is just pointing his fingers up and down, on how a real conductor would do. Last of all, Bradbury describes the atmosphere more into detail by employing "magician's smile... last snap of fingers" going into more further evidence that the atmosphere is mysterious as you can

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