In the book A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith uses many literary devices like imagery and characterisation. Betty also uses social stratification, ethos, pathos, and logos in the book to help create a well rounded book. She writes about a poor family that lives in brooklyn and their struggles to survive and climb the social ladder. Johnny and Katie go through hard times, losses and success to try to survive and to have a better life for their children Francie and Neeley. They give everything they have and sometimes sacrificing food so Francie and Neeley will graduate high school and have a better life.
The Metaphor Literary Paragraph In Budge Wilson’s “The Metaphor” the once young, enthusiastic 13 year old girl Charlotte is followed through her journey to becoming a 16 year old high school student who has been oppressed by society to match their standards. To begin with, in grade 7, Charlotte has an English teacher by the name of Miss Hancock, who is “plump and unmarried and overenthusiastic” (65). A vital role in Charlotte’s life is played by Miss Hancock because she introduces her to the beauty of literature and the importance of creativity. A breath of fresh air is what Miss Hancock is compared to in Charlotte’s plain, simple and boring life when she helps Charlotte discover her passion.
In the story, “Marigolds”, the author, Eugenia Collier uses imagery, diction and connotation in deep way. One example is of connotation is “... how thick were the bars of our cage”. This gives a negative connotation because it's pointing out how big their poverty is. An example for imagery is “running together and combining like fresh water color painting in the rain”. This shows how she and her friends would run around and play together.
Most people would describe me as strong and bulky, but sometimes I don’t realize how strong I really am. I never mean to hurt people or animals, I just enjoy touching them because they are soft and I love that feeling. When I do hurt things I always try hiding it from George because he doesn’t like me keeping dead animals. I was alone in the barn when Curley’s wife came in and tried talking to me. I was ordered by George not to talk to her, but she said that it was fine, that nobody would see us.
“Figurative language adds pizzazz. It raises work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary," said Ellen Hunnicutt, a successful American writer. In order to make writing stand out, and be engrossed, the writer needs to include figurative language. In the stories “Canyons” by Gary Paulsen, and “Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, all use a common stylistic technique of figurative language to get the characters and setting across to the reader of the story.
Even little details that the author writes into the story are integrated into the main idea. McCarthy also includes many clever examples of the literary element irony in this story. The reader notices that Grady seems to have a less than perfect relationship with his father and mother who have divorced. We as readers are also able to understand the humor that is portrayed by the author 's use of verbal irony. Verbal irony is shown through sarcasm by Grady when he tries to laugh about this rough relationship so that it is easier to deal with.
Poetry is an effective means used to convey a variety of emotions, from grief, to love, to empathy. This form of text relies heavily on imagery and comparison to inflict the reader with the associated feelings. As such, is displayed within Stephen Dunn 's, aptly named poem, Empathy. Quite ironically, Dunn implores strong diction to string along his cohesive plot of a man seeing the world in an emphatic light. The text starts off by establishing the military background of the main protagonist, as he awaits a call from his lover in a hotel room.
The figurative language can change the mood from happy and light to gloomy. Wolf uses similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and the occasional onomatopoeia in her writing. In her novel Once Upon a Devastatingly Sweet Kiss she states “It was as though he were a hunter and she the prey and there was nothing she could do to escape him. ”(Wolf, pg 221)
In the story “the most dangerous game” by Richard Connell, the author uses figurative language to enhance the mood. In example the way the author uses irony “you shoot down men.” This enhances the mood because the reader gets interested in how one of the main characters General Zaroff hunts humans. When they thought Zaroff was a normal hunter just like the main character Sanger Rainsford. Another example is the author using adjectives like “blood warm water.”
Some poems are lengthy, and some poems can be very short, however when analyzed, they all express a deeper message. For example, when examining the poem, "The Changeling," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the reader can easily spot the important message which the author is trying to reveal to the reader through the use of poetic devices. When closely reading this poem, the language and the terminology applied by Cofer enhances the readers ability to make connections between the theme of this poem and how it can be applied to real world scenarios. The poetic devices incorporated into the poem, "The Changeling," reflect on how young children interpret gender roles in their own way.
In my essay I will be presenting the poets feelings and attitudes in two poems and I will be looking at language features and presentation features. The two poems that I will be studying is the Farmers Bride and Sister Maude, the Farmers bride was written by Charlotte Mew and it is about the broken marriage of the farmer and his bride, Sister Maude was written by Christina Rosetti and is a story of betrayal and conflict. Farmers Bride is about a young woman who becomes afraid during her marriage and starts to present herself as a very timid and afraid lady. This is shown in the following quote, “when us was wed she turned afraid of love and me and all things human;” it is clear that she was soon afraid of all things human
Within Truth and Lamentation, Arnost Lustig's short story "The Lemon" is featured in the "Transmitting Truths" chapter. The story begins in medias res with two children, Ervin and his friend Chicky, in conversation over the worth of Ervin's dead father's trousers and ultimately ends with Ervin mourning his father alone and lemon-less. Throughout the story, Ervin's internal monologue is featured as he grieves his father's death whilst trying to obtain a lemon in hopes that it can cure his sister, Miriam, from the same fate. Arnost Lustig includes the internal monologue of Ervin in “The Lemon” in order to create empathy and convey the true horrors of the Holocaust through a lens that resonates on fundamental, universal levels. Especially apparent
Blanche's Growl This Blanche Dubois' monologue is a famous speech. After yesterday's poker game, drunken Stanley cruelly abused Stella in public. However, Stanley's sweet words and frank actions unexpectedly persuade Stella to forgive him, go back home, and spend the night with him in the end. Blanche cannot understand why Stella decides to tolerate Stanley's behaviors and live with him for a long time.
Dramatic irony is usually an over the top, tragic form of irony. Both Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” are great examples of an ironic situation. Every expresses the common theme in their own way. Although both of these literally pieces provide us with the theme of irony, Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" gives the reader a sense of suspense with the irony that proves to be more effective. Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" emphasizes on how a man’s thoughts and perception can affect oneself and other’s lives.
I've heard the expression "vomiting from the mouth" concerning someone who doesn't know when to stop speaking, and Wells vomits an enormous amount of words in this book letting us all know over and over again the pitiful state of the world before the change of the comet. the main character isn't a man that I could ever respect. He believe thinks too highly of himself, has a terrible slow boiling temper, and makes terrible decisions while disrespecting pretty much everybody his hard working poor mother. How does he know there is love between him and Nellie when he's hardly seen her and cares more for his words he writes her through the mail (the basis for their entire relationship ) than her own.
