Elie Wiesel Figurative Language Essay

I chose a few key types of figurative language which I think show major points of the book and the messages they are trying to get across. First is Foreshadowing which I think is a key tool to get points across in the book because it pits readers on edge no questioning what is going to happen just as the characters would. The example of foreshadowing is a big look into the future but also put the reader on edge and want to read more in the book "She was howling, pointing through the window: ' Look! Look at this fire! The terrible fire! Have mercy on me!"( Wiesel 25) this was very gut turning because picturing a old beaten down mentally woman screaming what is yet to come puts many people on edge. It made me question what was going to happen …show more content…
My third example is rhetorical question, this figurative language is used a very generous amount but the example I chose was "sons of bitches, why have you cone here? Tell me, why?"( Wiesel 30) this example makes me sad and makes me want to help these people that are in desperate need so badly, but it was in the past so my only option is to keep reading and that is a cleaver technique on the writes behalf. These rhetorical questions make the reader think and question themselves why this is happening and why people chose to do what they did. Elie Wiesel did this for that reason but just like the others to make people feel for those who were in desperate need. Finally my last example of figurative language is a very well known one, Metaphor which is used a lot as well. The example I chose is a very sad example but it gets the point across very well, it says " One day I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.