Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Essay

extended language was utilise by Marg aret Atwood, through the persona of Offred, to illustrate The Handmaids Tale. Figurative Language consists of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole and idioms.First, figurative language can be utilise to describe different settings. 1. Offreds experience at night in her bedroom The heat at night is worse than the heat in daytime. Even with the fan on, nothing moves, and the walls store up warmth, give it break through same(p) a used oven. Surely it will rain soon. why do I want it? It will only mean more(prenominal) dampness. in that locations lightning far away but no thunder. facial expression out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too unkept and a dull gray infrared. The searchlights are off, which is not usual. A world power failure. Or else Serena Joy has arranged it. (Pg. 243)* Similes* Described the envi ronment* Room glitter in the window, like stirred seawater* Heat Used oven* hold Lightning but no thunder2. Offred describing the Particicution of a homophile convicted of rape Theres a surge forward, like a crowd at a rock concert in the former time, when the doors opened, that urgency sexual climax like a wave through us. The air is bright with adrenaline, we are permitted anything and this is freedom, in my body also, Im reeling, red spreads everywhere, but in front that tide of cloth and bodies hits him Ofglen is shoving through the women in front of us, propelling herself with her elbows, left, right, and caterpillar track towards himA high scream comes from somewhere, like a horse in terror. (Pg. 262-263) * Simile and metaphor* Ofglen kicked his head several times and later explained to Offred that the man was part of the underground rebellion, so she wanted to put him out of his stroke quickly