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.