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10.Peleg: This retired sailor with enough marine service experience and Quaker background.

Writing Style of Moby-Dick

Although Moby-Dick starts in the first person narrative style, its long and winding sentences considerably test the reading ability of its readers. They are also highly imaginative with the excessive use of figurative language. The diction shows Melville’s marine background and his skillful use of the marine jargons. The conversation as well as the character descriptions show that Moby Dick has taken a considerable time to portray the depth of its character. For literary devices, Melville mostly relies on similes, personifications as well as parallelism.

3.ANALYSIS OF FREQUENT LITERARY DEVICES IN THE NOVEL “MOBY DICK”
1.Action: The main action of the novel comprises the story of Ishmael, his obsession with whale hunting and his survival after all of his colleagues die in hunting Moby Dick. The rising action occurs when they all come face to face with Moby Dick, while the falling action occurs when Captain Ahab gets killed and Ishmael survives.
2.Anaphora: The novel shows examples of anaphora as given below,
i. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. (Chapter-1)
ii. But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson: a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God. (Chapter-9)
These examples show the repetitious use of “some” and “a lesson.”
3.Alliteration: Moby-Dick shows the use of alliterations at several places as given in the below examples,
i. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul. (Chapter-1)
ii. What do you see? —Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. (Chapter-1)
iii. For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me. (Chapter-2)
iv. Yet was there a sort of indefinite, halfattained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. (Chapter-3)
v. Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my
way against the stubborn storm. (Chapter-7)
vi. The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint. (Chapter-8)
These examples from the novel show the use of consonant sounds such as the sound of /g/, /s/, /m/, /f/, /c/, and /p/ occurring after an interval, making the prose melodious and rhythmic.