Task #1: C.V. Stephen King uses many different literary devices in the first part of his novel, On Writing. He uses imagery in many of the short stories. One example of this is in the twelfth story when he writes, “About twenty years later, while I was signing autographs… Forry turned up in line… with my story, single-spaced and typed up with the long-vanished Royal typewriter my mom had given me for Christmas the year I was eleven” (King 35). Imagery is used in this quote as he uses descriptive words like “single-spaced” and “long-vanished” to illustrate what his story looked like and how old that it was. These words are used effectively as they appeal to the five senses and allow the reader to picture exactly what that story looked like then and when it had just been written. By using descriptive words that paint an image, King uses imagery to allow the reader to relate to him more and understand what he saw and how he must have felt at the time. …show more content…
A hyperbole is an exaggeration, and when used effectively, it can emphasize certain characteristics. King uses a hyperbole in a story he wrote as a kid when he says, “Behind him, billions of Happy Stamps are stuffed into basement storage bins… only eleven million, five hundred and ninety thousand books to go” (King 39). King uses a hyperbole when saying that there were billions of stamps. This is an exaggeration because billions of stamps couldn’t be stuffed into 90 books as King had previously stated. Since the use of the word billion isn’t meant to be taken literally, this is also an example of figurative language. King uses his hyperbole effectively as it emphasizes how much time was put into licking all of the stamps and how ridiculous the entire thing is if even with so many already done, he still needs over eleven million more stamp