Authors Note: This is a figurative
language piece on the short story Sea Of Death. I want to score an 8.5 on this
piece.
Imagery For Figurative Language
Would you like to
be chased by a werewolf through the woods and have to jump in water that is
full of rotten bodies. Well in the short story Sea Of Death that’s exactly what
happens. A boy has shot a deer and is trying to track it down when he runs into
a mysterious creature you wonder what it is. Then bam it hits you he has a
werewolf right on him chasing him and he has to jump in a sea of rotting dead
people eaten by the werewolf.
In the story Sea
Of Death it has superior imagery and figurative language were used in great ways to
make the story better. For example the phrase: “like
a splash of blocks” ,that is a simile, that shows how he fell into the water
and it made the reader feel how the water felt on his body. There could also be
other words to describe how the water hit him and how it felt but the narrator
chose this sophisticated phrase and it show how the writer has a creative mind
in this story.
There is also different phrases that the narrator used
other first class figurative language such as “it was like
a med-ore falling from the sky”. That is also another high quality
simile that shows how the werewolf feel down from the sky and what is felt on
the boy. This also helps the reader understand how big the creature was and how
hard it falls and it still can hold its body up. There is also another phrase that is a
metaphor: “ heart is going to explode.” This shows how nervous the boy was and
he was most likely feeling how the scared he was. This gets the reader exited
to see what it is going to be and they keep reading on and it gets more
interesting.
In addition to doing that the narrator made the story easy
to follow. So the reader can get a better grasp of the story maybe even
understand it from the werewolf’s point of view. He also described the events
taking place very well and were they are happening that may also help the
reader comprehend the story better. He also kept the story exciting so the
reader can be more intrigued to read more and have the reader wonder what’s
happening next.
This story also relates to the book The Life of Pi because
both of the main characters get stuck with a animal and have to find a way to
overcome that animal. The both of them after the madness was over, got asked
questions and didn’t tell the true story but in The Life of Pi he did tell the
true story first then they didn’t believe him so he made another one up. But
when the main character in The Sea Of Death didn’t want to tell what actually
happened to anybody. Both of the stories involve water and pull the reader in a
little later in the story.
In the story The Sea of Death figurative language made the
story sound so much better and more sophisticated. The story affects the tone
and the mood of the reader. For the quality of the figurative language, instead
of being of bored or almost falling asleep during the story the figurative
language makes the reader more scared of what is going to happen or happening.
