Brave New World 5

"Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly--they'll go through anything." -pg. 70

This analogy is a simile because it uses the word 'like'. A writer is describing the way he writes and the words he uses. He is saying that words can be piercing and can really relate to a reader. The comparison to the X-ray is very effective. It allows the reader to relate something that is commonly known to words, which are not tangible. It compares something tangible and known to something that is intangible. The purpose is to relate something to our world and to this world. There are still writers. Words are still important in this world, even though everything else is different.