Dream-“I am a Corpse”
Master Effendi narrates, "When in the course of this agony I knew I would die, an incredible feeling of relief filled me. I felt this relief during the moment of departure; my arrival to this side was soothing, like the dream of seeing oneself asleep." Here, the rhetorical dream transpires as Master Effendi's life is dwindling. Using the dream depicts the similarity between conventional sleeping and death.
Nuts- “I am a Corpse”
Master Effendi complains, “My present complaint isn’t that my teeth have fallen like nuts into my bloody mouth, or even that my face has been maimed beyond recognition, or that I’ve been abandoned in the depths of a well.” The allegorical nuts provide the imagery of decomposition of flesh which results in the falling of teeth. Once, the jaw flesh has decomposed the teeth automatically fall off.
Foreign Galleon- “I will be called a Murderer”
The narrator explains, “I wouldn’t have believed I could take anyone’s life, even if I’d been told so moments before I murdered that fool; and this, my offense at times recedes from me like a foreign galleon disappearing on the horizon.” The allegorical galleon depicts the murderer’s attempts to suppress his memories of the murder offense. He wants it to be expunged from his conscious so that he will not be tortured to conducting the murder.
