The three forms of figurative language used in the short story “at Sea” are Personification, Onomatopoeia, and a. Personification is used in the story when the author, Guy De Maupassant says “The trawling smack is the ideal fishing boat. So solidly built it fears no weather.” I believe the author used this because he was trying to explain how the boat could supposedly handle anything. The portrayal of the boat helped the explanation of the setting by letting the reader know that the weather isn't very good as they are about to set sail. The author uses an onomatopoeia when the young javels arm gets caught in the fish net and he describes how he screams and weeps in pain has is arm gets caught in the net and begins to bleed. Also it is used when he pours the salt water over the stub of his arm after he cuts it off. When explaining that the arm was caught and bleeding everywhere I thought it foreshadowed the story because you knew they were going to have to do something to the man’s arm. Lastly the author uses a
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February 2014
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