"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

In the story "The Open Boat" the author, Stephen Crane, uses a lot of figurative language. Figurative language is used in this short story to give a valid picture of what the men are going through by comparing something that the reader probably hasn't seen. Examples of how figurative language works in this story are showing the comparison to how small the boat really is and how big the waves are. They are so big …

…up on there own. If figurative language wasn't in the story, the story would have been very dry and boring. There would have been nothing there to make the story interesting and grab the interest of the readers. With figurative language being there the reading becomes very fast and really gets the reader into the story and wanting to read on. The author was very smart in adding all these different kinds of figurative language.