In the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi uses various stylistic devices to narrate his story to create meaning and emotion to make the story more powerful to the reader. In the passage on page 49 from chapter 16, Pi uses reception, a third-person passive voice, imagery, sound devices such as onomatopoeia, and figurative language such as personification. Within the paragraph, Pi uses the repetition of the word "dance". He repeats the word five times just within the paragraph, at one point saying "the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord" (pvage 49). The fact that he uses the present tense is also of importance. It gives the story he is telling a lively and energetic feel to the reader. Throughout the paragraph, Pi is also narrating with a third-person passive voice. This can be told by the reader because Pi is telling the story of the god Lord Krishma and he is not directly experiencing it and he is not living it first hand, so he couldn't be speaking in an active voice or a first-person voice. The passage uses a lot of imagery. The entire paragraph is a story and Pi is using imagery to best describe the scene and put a vivid picture of it in the reader's mind. Imagery is one of Pi's most powerful and most used stylistic device in this particular passage. He describes every detail of the scene, "The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets faster" (page 49). He creates the mood of the story using imagery. But he doesn't use just imagery, he uses sound devices like onomatopoeia and figurative language like personification. Everything he uses adds to the story and adds to the experience of the reader. Pi uses imagery and sound devices to paint a clear picture of the scene in the reader's mind. Imagery and sound devices give the reader a sense of emotion and sound, which helps to provide a better insight into Pi's meaning of the scene that is taking place. It helps to give a more vivid explanation of the scene. Pi uses onomatopoeia by saying that the fire "roars" and "crackles". Pi then uses personification by saying the fire "roars", as fires do not possess the human ability of roaring. Stylistic devices explain the scene better to the reader and make the scene more powerful to that reader.