Starring the Star (4)

"*******SYM. Nature: Not only is ordinary language described in natural imagery and metaphor (image of the river flowing peacefully), starring a text is also described as happening through natural forces (image of earthquake breaking text into blocks of significance). ********SYM. Peace/Chaos: Connected to previous symbolic code, Barthes provides the reader with an antithesis between peace and chaos as he describes the chaotic ability of earthquakes to break text into segments, and the peaceful character of the river-like original text."

*&**&***&****REF. "metaphor": a literary device that uses an implied comparison to make a point, "symbolic code": A symbol is an object that comes to represent another through association, "antithesis": A counter-proposition that goes against an original proposition, "Peace/Chaos": Peace is associated with order and agreement, while chaos is associated with disorder and disagreement.