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It can be said that this excerpt is an approach to the "forbidden door". it seems that the reader gets in the mood by reading this description.
The paragraph is full of vivid ideas which makes it simple to picture what is happening and how this person is feeling when listening to that tapping,
Shan is considered to be a first person narrator because he both tells the story and appears in it.
A first-person narrator would obviously use the first person pronoun (I) to refer to him/herself. So, the entire story is told from this person's point of view, using that particular pronoun. E.g. 'I saw him standing there...' is an example of a first person narration which Shan is an example of. If he were talking about someone else, it would be third-person narration.
1. simile an indirect comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
2. oxymoron combination of two words that seem to be contradictory
3. anaphora repetition of a word or phrase at the start of a series of clauses
4. personification the use of human characteristics to describe ideas or inanimate objects
5. paradox longer phrase or paragraph describing a seeming contradiction
