According to the passage, authors communicate through figurative speech. In the passage, they used similes. For example, "How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know hunger and wariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west, I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care." The passage also has personification. For example, "When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "it's God's mercy ye ever get out." In conclusion, authors communicate through figurative language according to this passage
Ben flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects ambient electrical charge in a jar for him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity.
