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Similes
Key Examples in Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
Style
Explanation and Analysis:
Bradbury’s writing style in “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” is dense with imagery, similes, metaphors, and other types of figurative language. The opening lines of the story demonstrate this layered quality of Bradbury’s style:
The rocket metal cooled in the meadow winds. Its lid gave a bulging pop. From its clock interior stepped a man, a woman, and three children. The other passengers whispered away across the Martian meadow, leaving the man alone among his family.
The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum. His wife, before him, seemed almost to whirl away in smoke. The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martian climes.
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