Calvino uses descriptive and imagery in the metaphors he uses. Such as: " but it is always the context in which we have to place ourselves forwards or backwards. "( Calvino, Page 9) Calvino is saying that you have to knwo from where you are reading the book. He says you will get mixed up and confused if you don't know where you are reading the book from.
Calvino also uses emotive language. For example, " But it is already an acheivement to hear the classics as a distant echo, outside the room which is pervaded by the present as if it were a television set on at full volume." (Calvino, Page 9) You can see in this passage Calvino's descriptive, emotive language. Calvino is describing here what it is like to reading a classic. All the information comes flooding into your brain similar to, as he says, listening to the tv on full volume.
Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.
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