In Ray Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to point out on Douglas Spaulding's imagination. In the authors writing, he uses metaphors and personification to portray Douglas's vision of summer. He describes the main character's hometown as "swarming seas of elm and oak and maple" and "early-morning stream" these are metaphors, it allows readers to visualize the setting of his home and symbolizes how summer is slow and steady. In addition, the author continues by stating "a whole summer ahead to cross off the calendar, day by day" to emphasize what Douglas has planned for what seems to be summer of a never ending fun activities. Continuing on in the novel, Bradbury displays numerous accounts
