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Rhetorical Devices In Richard Connell's Most Dangerous Game

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Richard Connell is the author of the "Most Dangerous Game" In this story the athour uses many diffrent types of Rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are just another word for figurative language you can say. One rhestorical strategy conell uses is personification, a second strategy richard uses is and the third statergy the author uses is "Dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht." this is an exzample of personification.It is saying that night pressed against the yacht night cannot physically press itself against something this can be found on page _______ paragraph 2 . The second quote the author uses is "A sharp hunger was picking at him." This is a exzample of

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