A Costly Treasure Figurative Language

The author of the story, “A Costly Treasure”, uses different types of figurative language to give the story a more dramatic feel. This author uses techniques such as Personification, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Simile, Metaphors, Etc. This is how the author’s use of figurative language contribute to the tension In “A Costly treasure.”

Some figurative language used in this story alliteration. Towards the beginning of the story,
It some Alliteration. “They looked like a brain petrified by a sinister sea.” “Dad’s friend warned us the waters were full of sea urchins.” “The sea seemed to drop right off.” “My fingers circled the shining object - a blade, they told me, smooth and sharp!” The reason why this author uses Alliteration in this poem is that the author of this Story really wants you to see the events what's going on, and how it slowly start climbing and climbing till it reaches the story’s Climax.

Some others examples of figurative language in the story are things like Simile and Personification.

“They looked like someone's brain petrified by a sinister sea.” “Across the road, prickly cactuses grew in the dry scrub.Cactuses, at the edge of the sea - as if a desert had stopped dead in its tracks when it saw the water.” “ Searing Pain and a quick flash of teeth, like fifty tiny knives biting into my arm.” The Author adds this to the story to give it a more dramatic touch mixing it with Mick’s life or death situation. Plus with the simile, it gives more descriptive details about what’s going on. Especially during Mick’s little diving-Fiasco with the Giant eel, giving it that Suspenseful, stressful feeling while

reading.

The last type of figurative language that this author uses is Hyperbole. SInce hyperbole basically means “a gross exaggeration”, it also helps the reader picture the feeling and the small detail they might not get as much while reading the story. “Searing pain and a quick flash of teeth, like fifty tiny knives biting into my arms.I yanked back. Just before the water clouded deep red, I saw it. An eel, an ugly moray eel was claimed onto my wrist! Blood seeped everywhere. Did its teeth pierce my artery? I panicked. I dropped my treasure and kicked to the surface. Ripping off my mask, I gasped and pawed at the demon fish with my free hand.”

Because of using hyperbole in this story, you could really feel the whole survival, suspenseful, life or death situation going on in this scene. This is my analyzation of why the use of figurative language contributes to the story.