Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Please list some of the figurative language in "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Figurative
language adds to the mood and meaning of a piece of literature and helps differentiate literary
texts from informative or scientific works.

In this short story, Vonnegut
uses . Alliteration occurs when words beginning with the same
consonant are placed close to one another. An example of this is the repeated "h"
sounds in:

Harrison's appearance was Halloween and
hardware.

The alliteration puts extra emphasis on the
words beginning with h.

Another example of alliteration, this time using
"b," is when the thoughts of George, Harrison's father, flee him like "bandits
from a burglar alarm."

Vonnegut also uses
dialogue. When Harrison's parents, George and Hazel, converse, this
illustrates how the handicapping devices have made it difficult for them to have anything but
the most inane kind of conversation:

"That was a real
pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel.

"Huh,"
said George.

"That danceit was nice," said Hazel.


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