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Figurative Language In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

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The story “The Veldt” is about parents that don’t show their children enough love and they let technology do it for them and the children end up loving the technology more than they love their parents. Now in the end the children use their nursery to murder the parents. The author Ray Bradbury used lots of figurative language, imagery, and diction to really show the audience what was going on and give them an insight on how it’s gonna end. Since the technology controlled the whole house it was everywhere and everyone used it. The nursery was a room specially for the kids because whatever they thought of the room could make it appear. In the beginning of the story the wife is concerned that there is something wrong with the nursery and she tells her husband but he denies it and said it was new and nothing was wrong. They go into the nursery and the author said it was silent. By using personification right there it can …show more content…

It said that when the husband came in the nursery he could feel sweat on his face cause the nursery felt like a reality, where the sun was actually there along with the lions. The wife didn’t like living there sometimes because she had some much free time. She wanted to do something, anything with her time. When the children came home the parents wanted to talk to them about African. The kids we described as puzzled unsure what they were talking about. The parents take to children to the nursery and check it out and surely enough no Africa. The sight of the lions and the smell the describe as hot grass and lion. The way the lion was eating with spit in its mouth and blood smears everywhere. That’s imagery, trying to get the audience to use all their senses while reading so they get the full effect. By describing something so intense with such great detail can just be getting your mind ready to put what you read in the end into a

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