Volume : 9, Issue : 1, JAN 2023

USAGE OF METAPHORICAL EXPRESSION AS REFLECTED IN RUSKIN BOND’S STORIES

DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR

Abstract

The main purpose of some writers is to convey their ideas and messages briefly by representing and arranging in figurative language to achieve the maximum effect. As far as Metaphor, a figures of speech is concerned, it plays the important role not only in conveying the meaning of words but also its literary meaning spoken or written by the social people. Actually some words, phrases, idioms and language used in communication is too difficult to understand and clarify. Therefore, metaphor one of the figures of speech that is used by the authors to be explained smoothly the meaning of the words. In this article, by the closer study of the selected short stories of Ruskin Bond, the most popular Indian English novelist and short-story writer describing fantasy, naturalism, social circumstances, helplessness and adolescents of children metaphorically in his stories. Metaphors can be traced out in different ways which have been portrayed perpetual intently by Ruskin Bond to help the understanding of readers.

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