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Dandelion Wine Rhetorical Analysis

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Have you ever stood in place imagining your whole life happen in front of you? Douglas Spaulding, a magician, “conducts” what happens in summer. In the novel Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury, a wide array of rhetorical devices, including various forms of imagery, to contribute to the imaginary atmosphere portrayed in the excerpt. Bradbury starts the excerpt using a series of rhetorical devices to portray Douglas’s vision of summer. He describes the main characters hometown as a “swarming sea of elm and oak and maple” With the combination of a metaphor and polysyndeton, readers can visualize the setting of what surrounds the main characters home. To depict Bradbury’s outdoor experiences, Bradbury slows down the rhythm of the sentence. Saying “and bushes and rivers,” the author not only uses visual imagery, but foreshadows that summer is falling over him in an early manner. Although summer is coming fast, the metaphor, “early-morning stream,” symbolizes how summer will be slow and steady. Overall, the rhetorical devices used gave the atmosphere a light and at “ease” texture. …show more content…

To personify what time period the passage was written in, the author uses sonic imagery. The readers can imagine hearing the “crystal jingle of milk bottles,” in the early morning, giving the text a childlike feeling. Continuing on with the theme of a former time, the narrator, Douglas, describes his room as a “sorcerer’s tower.” The primitive atmosphere activates the readers’ mental eye using visual imagery. The passage follows a mysterious path. Douglas’s use of “ritual magic,” gives the readers a glimpse of how furtive the excerpt

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