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Rhetorical Devices In Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
In Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury uses a vast variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize Douglas imagination. The author describes his living area and the wonders he see's. In lines 18-19 the writer highlights the "swarming seas of oak and maple." In the quote Bradbury imply that these trees resembles the swooshing;whirl wind sound that emits from rapid seas. The author states that when he said "swarming is being used to insinuate that the seas are vigorous, viscous and violent. Halfway to the passage Bradbury uses a variety of imagery, most important he uses visual imagery to under line that the " yellow square werer cut in the dim morning earth" to suggest that as dawn began to rise upawn Bradbury's neighborhood, the houses appeared to " wink

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