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)