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Rhetorical Devices In I Am Legend
Robert Neville followed a man, who was turning, into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from, I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man's voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore, Neville sees the man with "...red-splotched cheeks, the feverish eyes, the black suit, unpressed..." which is visual imagery that activates the reader's mental eye and leads to believe that the unknown man is also turning. As the beginning comes
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