What I like best about A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill by John Grisham is a very exciting and intense book.  It keeps me reading and wanting to turn the page each time.  I would recomend this book to anyone who likes thrillers.  I like the intensity of the book, but another thing  I like is its elevated diction.  Grisham uses many sophistocated words with many syllables. He also uses a lot of figurative language, such as personification.  In one part of the book, Grisham describes a man turning off his alarm clock.  He says, "He found it where he had left it, and killed it with a quick and violent slap."  Grisham uses personification in this passage.  He makes the clock seem alive by saying that the man killed it.  We as readers can understand this personification because the alarm clock is making annoying noises like something that might be alive, and the man silences it.  This is only one of many examples of figurative language in the book that enhances the story.