Bernardita Richards
Week #2 - pp. 33 -68
Job - Word Whisper
Through out the novel which I have been recently reading, One Day in the Life od Ivan Denisovich, I've noticed a rare sense and type of the writing the author writes in, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. For example he explains certain things in a different form, as mentioned a lot of times, similes.
''Volkovoi had put up with the reference to the criminal code but this made him wince and, like black lightning, he flashed'' (page 34)
sim·i·le
ˈsiməlē/ noun
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Which this slight smilie represents is was Sargent Buinovsky was complaining and arguing how the were not behaving as 'Soviet people' nor 'communists', Volkovoi made a move which made him wince in pain and made his collapse on the floor.
''He wanted nothing else. Under the heaviest of blankets''(page 35)
met·a·phor
ˈmedəˌfôr,ˈmedəˌfər/ noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors"
This metaphor shows Shukhov's thoughts about him wanting to be tucked back in bed instead of working out the tragic cold while his head and back ached.
''Suddenly the whistle blew. It never began at full blast. It started hoarsely, as though clearing it's throat'' (page 68)
sim·i·le
ˈsiməlē/ noun
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Once again, a simile has been through out the slight pages I've read. This certain simile describes how the whistle blew hardly harsh instead of slightly softer also as that none of the prisoners have had heard it before.
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