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What Are Some Examples Of Foreshadowing In Watership Down

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Watership Down, written by Richard Adams in 1970, is a story centered around rabbits. The two main characters are Hazel and Fiver. When Fiver senses that there is danger in the warren, Hazel and Fiver go to the leader of the warren, Threarah and tell him that all of the rabbits must leave the warren because of danger. Threarah says it is too risky to move all over the rabbits and insist that there is no danger. Regardless, Hazel and Fiver decide to leave the warren and look for a new home. Along the way they come across many obstacles, but in the end, they are able to create a safe new warren. Richard Adams uses a tremendous amount of personification, foreshadowing and similes in the book to help it come alive. There are also many different …show more content…

All of the animals are personified because rabbits don’t actually talk, but the writer Richard Adams made them seem almost human. Without personification the story would simple be about rabbits hoping around. Adams also uses foreshadowing in the book. One example of this is when Fiver says, “Oh, Hazel! This is where it comes from! I know now- something very bad! Some terrible thing-coming closer and closer” (Adams 7). This is foreshadowing because it gives an idea of what is going to happen in the future of the story and later in the book something terrible did happen. Foreshadowing makes the story interesting and can keep the reader interested. There are also many different similes used throughout the story. “The light, full and smooth, lay like a gold rind over the turf” (Adams 123) “I can feel the danger like a wire round my neck-like a wire-Hazel, help?” (Adams 13). These are examples of similes because they use the words like or as to compare two different things. Simile help the reader to be able to see what is happening in the story in their mind and to be able to imagine it. For example, “Her hair was red” is dull and is not very descriptive, but “Her hair was as red as fire” gives the reader an idea of how red it the hair was and allows the reader to imagine it. Without similes Watership Down would be dull and

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