Rhetorical Devices In Joyas

In the passage “Joyas Voladoras,” the author Brian Doyle uses the heart as a metaphor to help him communicate his main idea about the differences between life, love, and its state of vulnerability. To start, Doyle uses many examples to display his ideas, but his first example is the hummingbird. He describes how fragile the small bird is by saying, A hummingbird s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. (Doyle) This is a great example of how fragile life can be, and how small the hummingbird truly is. He then brings up the biggest heart in the world, which is inside the blue whale. He describes the heart of us in his article. It is a room, with four chambers. A child could walk around it, head