O Connor’s language during this story drives the reader to investigate it stylistically, since there are several words, phrases, sentences, and utterances, that are associated with some rhetorical terms, like figurative language, puns, creativity, rhetorical deviation, and wordplay.
In this story, the use of figurative language is based on the comparison, the use of simile and personification makes the reader excited.
The three examples used in the story are :
"I'd smack his face," John Wesley said.
"Tennessee is just a hillbilly dumping ground," John Wesley said, "and Georgia is a lousy state too."
"My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters. "
