The Wave | Style
Point of View
The third person narrator who tells this story is interesting in that he, or she, seems to disappear. It is almost as if the reader is telling the story to him or herself. This faceless narrator is not objective, however— the language the narrator uses to tell the tale is emotional and suspenseful.
Anthropomorphism
The narrator leads readers to think of the cliff as unfeeling, unthinking, as cliffs surely are, but in this story, the cliff has been given human attributes: It opens ‘‘a great black mouth . . . in its face.’’ It seems...
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