In the beginning, Source A’s writer talks about how relieved he is that his one week journey is coming to an end. The writer uses lots of metaphors such as “ranid peat” to create imagery in the reader’s mind to make them feel connected to his story. The use of hyperbole in the quote “monks existence” to emphasise that the writer is being entertaining to show emotion to the reader. However in Source B, the writer is far more informative compared to Source A in the quote “long-bodied vehicle”.
The various use of parenthesis in Source A is to elucidate the structure of the train to show how the writer is interested in trains to show the reader how old machinery operated. The writer of Source B deliberately uses hyperbole in a different style to Source A. The quote “magical machine” shows how the train is described as fairy tale like capabilities which makes the reader feel at ease and comfortable which heavily contrasts to the frightful jarring ways which the writer described it as the “end of the world”.
Towards the middle of Source A, the writer now zooms in on the fatal crash by using methods like metaphors such as “cannoned town” to represent the atmosphere to create imagery. This makes the reader have a clear picture of what the setting appears to be after a fatefull train crash.