The story contains numerous language features, moral, and is engaging making it, in my opinion a very good piece of children’s literature. Overall i really enjoyed this book and the accompanying illustrations. This line is also an example of pathetic fallancy by using nature to reflect human feelings, in this case by describing the waves as being as big as mountains the author is creating the human feeling of fear.

When the story describes “When the waves where as big as mountains” the author is using a similie by comparing the waves to mountains. This is depicted when the book states “The penguin looked sad.”,”suddenly it looked sad again as the boy helped it out of the boat” and “the penguin looked sadder than ever.” The story also contains the repetition of the concept that the penguin is sad. The boy realizes what he has really left behind. But the journey to the South Pole is long and difficult in the boys rowboat. Another example of personification is when the author writes “The boy asked his duck, but the duck floated away, he didn’t know.” when referring to the boys rubber duck suggesting that it has the capacity to think and retain information like a human. Find out where it came from, of course, and return it. Lost and found repeatedly features the use of personification, The most obvious of this is the penguin being given humanistic emotions of being sad and needing a friend. The story is told in third person, for example the author depicts the boy as the boy and the penguin as the penguin.

Lost and found contains numerous language features throughout the story. The story follows the penguin and the boy on there journey where the boy soon realizes that like him the penguin was lonely and in need of a friend.

The book is about a young boy who is trying to help a penguin find his way because he believes he is homesick. This week I have chosen to explore the language features in the children’s book, ‘Lost and found” by Oliver Jeffers.

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