Rhetorical Devices In Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

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As we read this novel, we are given flashbacks to our childhood. Some of our most charishable and haunting memories may be nothing but figments of imagination. In Ray Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine, the author uses an array of rhetorical devices that emphasize Douglas' imagination as a young kid. In the beginning of the excerpt, Bradbury uses personification in lines 3-5 and a simile in lines 16-18. In lines 3-5, he advises us that "the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow." When the author states "the breathing of the world," he's referring that the world was clam and at ease for the little boy. In lines 16-18, Bradbury mentions that "he flashed his gaze like a beacon from his lighthouse." When

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