The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, is a wonderful story of a young man named christopher investigating the death of a neighbor’s dog. In pages 198-200 in the novel, Haddon uses rhetorical devices such as imagery, repetition, and organization to reveal the mood and setting of the passage. These rhetorical devices allow the reader to know that Christopher is in a ranting state while talking about the details a dream.
One of the rhetorical devices used in this passage was repetition. Haddon repeated the word “and” at the beginning of every paragraph and most sentences in that chapter. Haddon did this to reveal the mood to the reader. Also the word “and” was used to add more to the end of the paragraph to prolong it by saying irrelevant things that the reader can infer. Adding irrelevant statements is ranting on. …show more content…
Although it was said, the reader could infer that this passage was a dream because of how christopher was talking about the events of the dream. For example, “And in some versions the virus makes them crash their cars or walk into the sea and drown, or jump into rivers, and I think that this version is better because then there aren't bodies of dead people everywhere.” Haddon is making you visualize this event happening, but also uses keywords like versions to let you know that this isn’t real. The reader can infer that it is a dream because they know that there is not two different versions of their life, you live you
One of the rhetorical devices used in this passage was repetition. Haddon repeated the word “and” at the beginning of every paragraph and most sentences in that chapter. Haddon did this to reveal the mood to the reader. Also the word “and” was used to add more to the end of the paragraph to prolong it by saying irrelevant things that the reader can infer. Adding irrelevant statements is ranting on. …show more content…
Although it was said, the reader could infer that this passage was a dream because of how christopher was talking about the events of the dream. For example, “And in some versions the virus makes them crash their cars or walk into the sea and drown, or jump into rivers, and I think that this version is better because then there aren't bodies of dead people everywhere.” Haddon is making you visualize this event happening, but also uses keywords like versions to let you know that this isn’t real. The reader can infer that it is a dream because they know that there is not two different versions of their life, you live you