water wars: bottling up the world’s supply of h20

In the article, water wars: bottling up the world’s supply of h20, Joshua Ortega uses a splendid amount of tools in his writings: similes, imagery, analogy, and personification. Referring to the investment of buying a filter for a tap rather then choosing bottled water he said, “nothing speaks loader then where you spend you dollar.” by doing this, he exemplifies the use of personification to not only catch the reader, but to also explain that who you are is what you buy. Also, by comparing the force behind today’s wars on oil to the force behind a water war he connects to totally different ideas, one of which we know of, to help us understand his claims; this way of writing is called an analogy. Imagery is used when he said, “no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to drive. No one makes you fill you tank. Gas and oil are ultimately luxuries. Water, however, is a necessity. taking away you water is the same thing as putting a gun to you head.” this not only makes the reader feel a little bit of pathos, or in other words emotion, but it also makes them see the picture painted to understand the argument.