Similes In Life Of Pi

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Life of Pi is full of different uses of figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, and foreshadowing. Using a metaphor as Pi thinks back to when all three of his different religious leaders confronted him at the same time Martel can express to the reader how uncomfortable Pi really was rather than just saying he was uncomfortable, “…my smile had frozen into a mask of horror” (65). Martel uses several similes in describing Richard Parker such as comparing him to a jack-in-the-box, “'Richard Parker could shred it with his claws with a little time and effort, but he couldn't pop through it like a jack-in-the-box” (108). Personification is yet another method Martel uses in Life of Pi to give the story life. “…it
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