Literary techniques/ figurative language post

Shteyngart uses many literary techniques in the book Absurdistan. The most prominant technique that he uses is satire. He uses the country Absurdistan to show what happens in the world today in battles between countries over the rights to control a good source of money. Absurdistan also has oil which could be satire of the battles over oil that have gone on in the middle east for many years. Though literary techniques like satire are used throughout the book Shteyngart also makes use of figurative language. He uses figurative language to describe the land that Misha is in. This figurative language is extremely helpful to the reader in picturing the barren landscapes of Russia and Absurdistan. Absurdistan makes use of many literary techniques and much figurative language and these elements ultimately make the book much better for the reader.