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During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Mellville and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. Both of these individuals wrote descriptive passages about the physical attributes and ....

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... passage uses allusions, analogies, and comparisons to well- known entities to better illustrate the Galapagos Islands to the common reader. Mellville assumes that the reader is unfamiliar with the Galapagos islands, or "Encantadas," as he chooses to refer to them as and paints a picture of the Galapagos Islands using everyday terms. An important part of Mellville's style is that the he never directly describes the islands. "Take five-and-twenty heaps of cinders dumped here and there in an outside city lot" is how Mellville's description of the Galapagos Islands begins. This reduces the Galapagos islands from a large, nearly inconcei ...