1. Metaphors“Fish that were local in their ambit made the net their neighborhood, and the quick ones, the ones that tended to streak by, the dorados, slowed down to visit the new development” (Martel 195).“I reached the raft, let out all the rope and sat with my arms wrapped around my knees and my head down, trying to put out the fire of fear that was blazing within me” (Martel 206).“The sky was a heavy, suffocating blanket of grey cloud, but without promise of rain” (Martel 215).“The thing was smaller than I—but wasn’t I being a foolhardy Goliath here” (Martel 219)?