In the tantalizing novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, the author uses figurative to convey his thoughts and emotions. There are two cauldrons of soup left laying in the middle of the road with no one guarding them and the starving jews are looking at them. The author uses the metaphor, “ Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them.” ( Wiesel 59), to vividly describe this moment in time in the book. This is an accurate comparison of the two cauldrons of soup to two helpless sheep and the Jews to hungry wolves.
Do you remember learning about the holocaust? The holocaust was a historical event and lasted twelve years. It was a horrible time in the world. Elie Wiesel in the memoir “Night” explains why the holocaust should never happen again. Wiesel uses pathos, Metaphors, and lastly repetition to support his explanation.
In Timmy Reeds short story, “Birds and Other Things We Placed in Our Hearts,” there is a significant amount of imagery and symbolism through the authors use of style, characterization, and theme. The profound use of symbolism in the authors style of writing greatly captures the use of imagery throughout the story. The beginning sentence of the story reads, “As our chests hollowed out, we filled them with birds” (Reed). This beginning sentence is simply stating that the hearts of humans have withered away, leaving them feeling empty, and to fill that emptiness they filled their cavity with birds.
The book Night made by Eli Wiesel is about a young 15-year-old Romina Jewish boy who was put into a concentration camp with his father in Germany. Eli Wiesel's Book Night was created to create Diction, Imagery, and Pathos to show the dangers of losing faith and the fear of not caring about others' suffering. Throughout the book, He uses imagery to show how being in these conditions can make you not care about others' suffering. For example in the book when he says “When the SS were tried and they were replaced.
It’s often complicated to metaphorically express a depressing topic with only one word that people can relate to. Author Elie Wiesel had managed to complete this feat, though many may argue what exactly Wiesel meant to express. The word “night” symbolizes fear, hopelessness, and futility. This gives reason to why the word and its extended metaphor are appropriate for the title. To put a start to the claim, the word night symbolizes fear because, at many points of the biography it tells of the situations where Wiesel and his family experienced the horrible emotion.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, we see metaphors, imagery, and most important symbols. All of these signs help us understand what the book is about and the reasons behind writing this memoir. In reading this book we get a different point of view as to what the Holocaust was really about. There's a more serious meaning behind the metaphor “Night” which symbolizes just how dark this era actually was. It follows the life of a young Jew who survived, spoke out against the silence, and shared what life was like in the concentration camps.
The metaphor of the birds also serves to create a sense of movement and tension within the poem, as the birds engage in a battle of wills that reflects the speaker's own struggle for
“I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move” written by Louise Erdrich focuses on a child and a grandfather horrifically observing a flood consuming their entire village and the surrounding trees, obliterating the nests of the herons that had lived there. In the future they remember back to the day when they started cleaning up after the flood, when they notice the herons without their habitat “dancing” in the sky. According to the poet’s biographical context, many of the poems the poet had wrote themselves were a metaphor. There could be many viable explanations and themes to this fascinating poem, and the main literary devices that constitute this poem are imagery, personification, and a metaphor.
The statement “but a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams/his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream” made me think through how the cage that I am building for myself with those negative emotions kill my dreams and aspirations. Those emotions come back stronger, as a scream, when I notice the grave that I have put my dreams
In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, figurative language is used to emphasize and intensify the growing emotions of the narrator. To the narrator, the raven symbolizes bad fortune. Moreover, the raven is black and black can represent death or evil. Poe twists the bird into a controlling being who torments him over the death of a loved one and he is able to enhance that effect with the use of metaphors. The use of metaphors in this poem adds an eerie background to the bird and adds quality to the writing.
Throughout the story, the narrator feels powerless about his situation, and he envies birds for their ability to fly and be free. The protagonist says, "I told Mom my theory of why we like birds –– of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.” The protagonist of the story uses birds as a metaphor for freedom, escape, and finding nobility in what he views as a harsh world. The protagonist is saying that birds are a symbol of hope and freedom and that they represent a simpler way of life that we should strive to achieve. The narrator expresses his desire to become a bird, as he says, “just make me a bird - that’s all I ever wanted - a white graceful bird free of shame and taint and fear of loneliness.”
In the last five lines of the poem, a metaphor is used to enhance the despair of the poem more deeply. He says " And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions, Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica"
Every country has a variety of literature that reveals many things about the culture at the time each piece was written. As time passes and more pieces of literature are made, shifts and continuities in the culture become more noticeable by each piece through their use of literary elements. This can especially be seen in Scotland, through the three Scottish pieces of “The Dream of the Rood,” “View of Scotland/Love Poem,” and “How Muriel Spark Came Home to Scotland.” The literature of Scotland uses diction, first person point of view, diction, figurative language, and theme to convey how cultural aspects such as dialect and religion changed overtime in Scotland and the constant presence of nationalism in Scotland.
Walter Dean Myers wrote this story to inspire others. The author talks about how it is important to have a dream and how perseverance can help you get closer to that dream. The author thinks that all people should have dreams, no matter how big or small they are, and that it is important to take steps toward realizing those dreams. I read the story Sometimes a dream needs a push by Walter Dean Myers, and the story is about a boy who can't walk after a traumatic accident but still dreams to be a basketball player. Sometimes a dream needs a push written by Walter Dean Myers has a personal point of view, an Inspiring Mood, and a persevering protagonist.
The narrator is aghast when he realizes that the bird can speak. The narrator, both confused and amazed, starts showering the ebony bird with questions. His confusion only grows stronger when he realizes that the bird has only one reply for, Nevermore that he keeps on repeating. The poems major themes are death and sorrow and the nature of the
