Saki uses figurative language in "The Interlopers" to expand meanings, generate imaginative ideas, depict scenes artistically, and intensify emotions.
Here are some examples of this figurative language:
- ImageryIn describing the animosity between von Gradwitz and Znaeym, Saki employs sensory imagery: "as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood."Auditory imagery is also used, as there is "a splitting crash" of the beech tree that "thundered" down upon the two men.
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Saki uses figurative language in "The Interlopers" to expand meanings, generate imaginative ideas, depict scenes artistically, and intensify emotions.
Here are some examples of this figurative language:
- Imagery
In describing the animosity between von Gradwitz and Znaeym, Saki employs sensory imagery: "as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood."
Auditory imagery is also used, as there is "a splitting crash" of the beech tree that "thundered" down upon the two men. - Metaphor
Rather than calling the men Ulrich's enemies, Saki uses a metaphor that describes them as "the prowling thieves." - Simile
After the men lie pinioned under the huge branches, Ulrich takes a drink from his flask of wine, which warms and revives him. He then glances at Georg "with something like a throb of pity." Here a simile, a stated comparison using like or as, is used. - Synecdoche
As the two enemies come face to face, they hesitate because they can only kill instantly "for an offence against... hearth and honor." "Hearth" is an example of a part of the home being used for the whole idea of family. (Synecdoches are a figure of speech in which a part represents a whole.) - Figures of speech
Each of the foes has "hate in his heart" (This is also an example of alliteration with the /h/.)
Ulrich asks Georg to help him "bury the old quarrel."
When he sees the wolves, Ulrich speaks with the "idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear."
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