Throughout the short story “Bread and the Land” by Jeffery Renald Allen, the author uses a combination of literary elements and techniques to convey Hatch’s complex relationship with his grandmother. One of the author’s most used techniques is characterization. Through the narrative and dialogue, Allen shows the reader the different aspects of Hatch’s relationship with his grandmother. It is clear that Hatch is a complex character that is interesting to watch throughout the story, one example of his complexies and how the author utilizes characterization to demonstrate Hatch’s personality is narrated at one point in the story "Hatch never asked for help, he just worked harder ''.
The figurative language in the third section of Inside Out and Back Again gives us a deeper understanding of the book. It shows a look into Ha’s thought process, how uncomfortable she is in America, and how she prefers Vietnam to the US. The first example of figurative language is on page 140, where Ha spells her teacher's name; MiSSS SSScot. She is purposely misspelling her teacher's name to exaggerate the “S”. It gives us a deeper look into Ha’s understanding of English, and her thought process when coming to it.
J. F. Powers omnisciently narrates a story of a former white-collared worker that becomes a temporary, manual laborer and his acclimation to his new life. “The Old Bird, A Love Story” tells about the mental journey that Mr. Newman goes on to accustom to his new life as a blue-collared worker. The author explains his situation in a sympathetic manner by describing Mr. Newman’s thoughts and facial expressions as he goes through his day. He often compares his previous lifestyle with his current one which gives of a sentimental feeling, similar to a parent as they look at their grown up. They reminisce about the past, but do not wish for it back.
“Figurative language can give shape to the difficult and the painful. It can make visible and ‘felt’ that which is invisible and ‘unfeelable.” - Mary Oliver. Descriptive Language is important because it expresses the tone and details the background of where and what the characters are feeling/ seeing. In the story Treasure Of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, and the story Two Kinds by Amy Tan, the authors use figurative Language to develop the mood and the background of the story.
1. The quote explains the scene when Liesel first sees the mayor's wife's library. The illustration depicts how the books are literally miles away. This quote is a hyperbole in the novel because it is exaggerating how far away the books are in the library. The figurative language affects the novel because it shows how Liesel feels about the books in Ilsa Hermann's library.
Through the use of heavy characterization with The Misfit and The Grandmother, Flannery O’Connor exposes the characters’ weaknesses and shortcomings and their urgent need for redemption. The Grandmother is one of the first characters we learn about in the story. She is portrayed as the epitome of a “lady” wearing a hat, gloves, dress, and cloth flowers on her dress, so that “in case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor). The Grandmother believes that by projecting herself as a lady, she will appear as a good person and be respected by others.
Elizabeth Collier Analyzing Figurative Language March 20, 2018 "Sketch" by Carl Sandburg is a short poem that describes ships on the shore and a rolling tide. This poem gives off a calming tone to support the theme of nature. Personifications and several metaphors also help bring out the theme for this writing.
In Joel Chandler Harris’s “The Tar-Baby” Uncle Remus is depicted as an old southern man who is used as a storyteller who tells children folktales. The use of dialect is representative of the characters and their cultures. Reading this story can be challenging due to the African American dialect but listening to the audio helps. This story can be seen as a humorous story about a rabbit tricking a fox or can be argued that using the animals to tell the story helps tell the racial message in a friendlier way. There are many ways to look at the story and who the characters could represent.
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is about a mother and her youngest daughter waiting for the oldest daughter to return home for a visit after she had left for college. In this scene Mama tells us about how weak Maggie, the youngest daughter, comes off. Using new criticism I will be analysing six words from one of the sentences from the scene. Everyday Use reveals how cowardice can prevent one from excelling in personal growth. Maggie has her chin on her chest.
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” (Nabokov 9). Vladimir Nabokov’s language in Lolita displays the enchanting power of language in its most innate form. In the classic dark love story of Humbert Humbert, the pedophile, and Dolores Haze, the naïve child, Nabokov 's choice in syntax encapsulates the audience’s attention from line to line, readers only hoping to understand the complexity of a character such as Humbert Humbert.
In Hoefel’s article, she presents the idea that reading “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” from a heterosexual viewpoint introduces possibly incorrect assumptions about the priorities in Ellen’s life. This heterosexual/mainstream view is inconsistent with the author’s previous feminist writing style in which the female protagonist undergoes an experience of self-discovery and defies the roles that society or custom assign them. The conjecture that her life, as a woman, revolved entirely around family, and that all of the names she mentions are only those of family members, limits the understanding of Ellen and departs sharply from Porter’s writing style. It depreciates her identity as a woman by confining her motives to a simple desire for
The present thesis analyzes selected aspects of figurative language in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar and its translation into Lithuanian by Rasa Akstinienė. The object of the analysis of the present research is the novel The Bell Jar (1971) by Sylvia Plath and its translation into Lithuanian „Stiklo gaubtas“ (2004) by Rasa Akstinienė. According to Jo Gill, Sylvia Plath is considered to be one of the most famous figures in the mind-twentieth century literature and culture who has “consolidated her position as one of her age’s most important and influential writers” (Gill, 2008: ix). Sylvia Plath’s first book, as Linda Martin-Wagner holds, was collection of poems
Anton Chekhov once stated, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” By using descriptive language, the author is able to paint a picture in the reader’s mind to help them visualize the narrator’s visualization and perspective. In the short story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Dean Myers, the author uses figurative language and descriptive adjectives to develop the mood and the characters. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author uses figurative language to develop the mood and the characters.
Gaining your freedom. Aunty Ifeoma and her family are clearly shown to be the group with power or privileges. They might not be rich or loved by the community, but they all have their voices. The ability to speak out is portrayed as power in Purple Hibiscus. Kambili, Jaja, and Mama could not speak against their Father.
I am grateful; more grateful than you know, believe me.” (22) Having stated that relatively close to the beginning of the story, the reader continues his reading with a raised consciousness of the structure behind the words. With the comment on page 165 the narrator’s account is pejoratively called clumsy and seemingly exposed to an external force that has the power to disturb the
