Rhetorical Devices In Dandelion Wine

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Most will say that as a kid they lived free believing they can do anything they set their mind to, in the novel Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury depicts an ordinary day as a twelve year old. Throughout the novel, Bradbury uses a variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize the wildness of his imagination. In his writing, Bradbury constantly describes and shares his memories of the night before the summer of 1928. For example, in lines 15-17 “At night when the trees wash together, he flashed his gaze like a beacon”. The author use a metaphor in ” when the trees washed together “ to magnify the wind blowing through the trees and uses a simile to compare his gaze to beacon in the night. By using both rhetorical devices they accent the simplest things