Poetic Devices

Personification

Similie

Imagery

Exaggeration

Metaphor

Visual

Auditory

Jack's description-His sandy hair........he was naked

Simon's rest spot-the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of open space in the jungle.

Simon's description-He was a small.........glistened with sweat.

The silence was more oppressive than the heat.

Their scent spilled out and took possession of the island.

undertone less perceptible than the susurration of blood.

ape-like

creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships

Forests' description-acres of fruit trees, gaudy butterflies,riotous colours, dark bushes

Forest's description-booming of bees

Olfactory

Forest's description-scent of ripeness, the scent of the white flowers, aroma of the dark bushes

The littleuns-screaming at night. In the forest-talked cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees.

like cows at home (comparing cows and pig)

Verbal Irony

"Meetings,don't we love meetings?"

rude shelter

two continents of experience

silence shattered

air of purpose

passion vibrated

Beache's description-solid blue sky, the mountain with chalky line of smoke, the hole in the shelter,water

riotous colours died and the urgency cooled down.

bowl of heat and light

thickened to a creamy blur

surveyed the wreck in distaste

castanet sound (the pigs legs)