Charles Dickens

devil is employ figures of linguistic communication to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping populate imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how tight and terrible Coketown is. Coketown was a town of cherry brick, or of brick that would have been red if the tummy and ashes had allowed it but, as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and blackened like the painted face of a savage.He also uses the aforementioned(prenominal) word again and again to make his negative impression of the manufactory clear. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many an(prenominal) small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another (). After edition the story you almost smell the smoke and see the clouds of smoke in front of you. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.When you have read that description of the smoke you nooky feel it everywhere around you like a snake mouse around because of the metaphor Dickens is making. Another metaphor you can divulge is when Dickens has to describe the steam- locomotive engine. He does that by using a big animal like an elephant to make people imagine how enormous the engine is. () and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness Finally you can conclude that Dickens uses a lot of metaphors and figures of speech to make the reader fells how it is being in Coketown.