Ray Bradbury brings us back to a time when we all were full of creative potential and explores how summer was an important aspect of childhood. In Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, there is a significant assortment of literary terms used to emphasize an overall magical and mysterious atmosphere.
Bradbury commences the passage with many rhetorical devices to characterize the beginnings of summer and describe how this day is so important to a young child, bright with creative vision. The author personifies the town in the morning in a state of “ease in bed” to show how the town is quite desolate at the crack of dawn, free of commotion. The wind is also given humanly characteristics with it having a “proper touch” to show that it was gentle and relaxed. This example couches the concept of the town and wind in a human context to make it more relatable and vivid. The wind is further highlighted with polysyndeton as it was “long and warm and …show more content…
He describes the mansions across the town as having “opened baleful dragon eyes” showing that he pictures everything in a fantastical way, even houses. Visual imagery is used with “hot blue sparks” to describe how the trolley car catches Douglas’ eyes. It makes the reader picture the bright flashes to activate their mental eye and allows us to vividly picture the scene. Furthermore, the author uses more examples of imagery in lines 78-79 with “baseballs sponged in wet lawns” and in lines 82-83 with “clock alarms tinkled faintly” and the “clocked boomed” to engage and emphasize the visions and sounds made. Once again, the author uses diction is the semantic field of fantasy to add to the overall atmosphere. In the final paragraphs Douglas “smiled a magician’s smile” and gave the town “a last snap of fingers” to make it appears he has control over the town when in reality his imagination is forming these fictitious
Bradbury commences the passage with many rhetorical devices to characterize the beginnings of summer and describe how this day is so important to a young child, bright with creative vision. The author personifies the town in the morning in a state of “ease in bed” to show how the town is quite desolate at the crack of dawn, free of commotion. The wind is also given humanly characteristics with it having a “proper touch” to show that it was gentle and relaxed. This example couches the concept of the town and wind in a human context to make it more relatable and vivid. The wind is further highlighted with polysyndeton as it was “long and warm and …show more content…
He describes the mansions across the town as having “opened baleful dragon eyes” showing that he pictures everything in a fantastical way, even houses. Visual imagery is used with “hot blue sparks” to describe how the trolley car catches Douglas’ eyes. It makes the reader picture the bright flashes to activate their mental eye and allows us to vividly picture the scene. Furthermore, the author uses more examples of imagery in lines 78-79 with “baseballs sponged in wet lawns” and in lines 82-83 with “clock alarms tinkled faintly” and the “clocked boomed” to engage and emphasize the visions and sounds made. Once again, the author uses diction is the semantic field of fantasy to add to the overall atmosphere. In the final paragraphs Douglas “smiled a magician’s smile” and gave the town “a last snap of fingers” to make it appears he has control over the town when in reality his imagination is forming these fictitious