In the book I am currently reading, Uglies, one of the literary devices that I found present was a Metaphor. A metaphor is an implied comparison between two things. The one that I found was comparing a building to a teapot between two glasses of champagne.
"Garbo Mansion was fat,bright and loud. It filled the space between a pair of party towers, a squat teapot between two slender glasses of champagne" (Westerfeld, Uglies 11).
The purpose of this literary device was to help the reader visualize what the building looked like. It may of also been used to help the reader understand how the main character, Tally, thinks about things. The significance of using these certain words in the metaphor is because most people around the world will know what a tea pot and champagne glasses look like. The author is just making it easier for the reader to understand and visualize the scene.
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005. Print.
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