In the except from the novel “ Under the feet of Jesus” by Helena Maria Viramontes shows the development of Estrella from being angry to understanding what she needed to do to succeed. The author uses figurative language and selection of detail to show the changes Estrella’s character went through, which reveals that knowing what things are is beneficial. The author uses figurative language like similes and metaphors to show Estrella’s frustration with her teacher and her understanding of tools. The author says, “ all that a jumbled steel inside the box… seemed as confusing and foreign as the alphabet she could not decipher.”
The first example is Mildred she is a character who doesn’t know anything but isn’t happy, When Montag comes in her room, “…sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty…”(Bradbury 10) This shows that Mildred isn’t happy and tries to commit suicide even though she doesn’t know anything. Another example is Montag. Montag in the beginning book is ignorant is can be seen he isn’t happy. An example of how he isn’t happy is after talked with Clarisse he says, “ Of course I’m happy.
Another example is whenever the birds lead Brian to the berries. The thing that I imagined when that happened was that there was a flock of birds in a bush and when Brian came along the way he
Exemplification may rely mostly on examples used, but the structure of the essay is also important (Kirszner
On February 7, 2018 Elizabeth Soergel was a guest speaker for English 390. Soergel is a STEM Librarian at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library at the University of Maryland. She is a former Terp who graduated with a bachelors and Masters in Library Science. As part of her job function, Soergel acts as support for research in Engineering. Soergel was a guest speaker for English 390, which is a professional Science writing course.
Question 1: The three examples of figurative language that I am going to analyze are, rhetorical questions, personification, and similes . Rhetorical question: “Here or elsewhere, what did it matter? Die today, or tomorrow, or later.” (Wiesel 98) This example of a Rhetorical question really adds to the text by almost forcing the reader to think to themselves, and actually try to answer the question that is being asked. It involves the reader and therefore can make the story more appealing to them.
Florence Kelley was a women’s rights activist who gave a speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the summer of 1905 on the topic of child labor. This speech on child labor offers insight to the harsher lives that some children have to carry in comparison to some adults due to no child labor laws. Kelley’s writing was meant to persuade the audience to improve child labor laws and safety by appealing to pathos. Throughout the beginning of the essay, there’s repetition of the phrase: “[W]hile we sleep.”
In the short story, “A Worn Path,” Eudora Welty introduces an elderly, African American, woman named Phoenix Jackson, whom for two or three years has made a long quest to town to get medicine for her ill grandson. Initially, Phoenix must overcome many obstacles to reach climax of her journey. Eudora Welty uses these obstacles to demonstrate the theme of her story, which is that Phoenix’s ambition/hope was the leading role in her preserving. The first obstacle that displays Phoenix’s determination to succeed, was when she came to a hill during her quest to town.
There 's a subtle wonderfulness to this story. It 's such a relatable story that involves day to day recounts of activities, Kimberly and her mother 's struggles and strives, financially and culturally. Especially from Aunt Paula. Once she said: “You can release your heart, older sister” (148). And another conversation is that “I am too smart to cheat….It
One example is gender inequality. A demonstration of this is when Scout describes a dress as a prison. She says “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary(Lee 138). The comparison of a dress to a prison refers to gender inequality. A prison could be defined as limiting, and though the dress itself is not forbidding Scout to do as she pleases, it still keeps her in confinement.
As an American basically we are entitled to an academic education. This aspect of being an American is frequently taken for granted. There are some countries where an education is viewed as a luxury. Growing up in this world one needs more than an academic education. One also needs the opportunity to be taught how to deal with life as a whole.
Martin may have won best translation in the scene where Atalanta is described, but Mandelbaum’s expression of the scene in the cave is superior to that of Martin. Where one is more compelling in one section the other is enthralling in another section. Reading both works made it truly easier to understand the story, I would recommend to anyone wanting to read or having to read the story to read
An example was the shifts between “nothing” and “everything”. The first stanza started with the word “nothing” and was basically the speaker saying how they did nothing while the student was absent. The next stanza the starts the word “everything”, and exaggerates how the student missed a very important event. This pattern continues on until the last two stanzas. The second last stanza is a break from the sarcastic tone of the rest of the stanza as the classroom is described as a microcosm, and is an area for the students to “query and examine and ponder”, and “it was not the only place”.
One example of this in the reading was when he used this to describe the beauty and view of a horizon. He stated that so many people have come and go, limping on crutches or dieing, and were heroes from many wars. Then while stating the different wars, he uses this device to empathize the amount of people who came and went by listing the many wars with the conjunction or in between each one, such as, the Pacific or Europe or Korea or Vietnam or the Persian Gulf wars. A third use of a rhetorical device that I noticed throughout the reading was the author's use of euphemism. This is when the author substitutes a word for another that is more pleasant so that he or she does not come off as rude and can avoid conflict in with the readers of the story.
However, Heaney also does a good job of translating literally in several cases, the inclusion or shifting of phrases and words such a “God-cursed,” “race of men,” “mansion” and the change of the last line from the original cement this work as being more dynamically equivalent than formally equivalent (711-2; 728). Nonetheless, Heaney does well in maintaining the original tone and style and the work with kennings such as “God-cursed,” “cloud-murk,” and
