In Elizabeth Acevedo’s novel, Clap When You Land, Acevedo uses similes and personification to display a strong theme of grief that has severe impacts on individuals. In the novel it says, “Mami still had an air around Papi,/like he was a medicine she knew she needed/even as she cringed at the taste (Acevedo 230-231).” Simile acts as a dominant tool for Acevedo to help highlight the theme of grief. Here, the simile is comparing the theme of grief to a world without Papi when she writes “he was a medicine she knew she needed”.
He used simile because he uses the word like to relate the mosquitos to the tiny, bloodsucking men. Edward Bloor also uses flashbacks as a way to give us insight on what happened before the family moved to Tangerine that have been effective to the plot. For example, (page 167-168) “Dad was saying, “OK, Erik. Pretend that Paul is in the center of an imaginary clock, and that I am standing here at twelve o’clock position, right behind him. Good.
In the story The Ransom of Red Chief, the story follows Sam and Bill, with the story giving first person perspective to Sam. The story follows the two men who are staying in a small town called Summit, even though the town is as flat as a pancake. The two men had to raise some money to pull off a scam they had planned, and that's when they came up with a plan to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child. Ebenezer was a banker in the town with many riches, which made him a prime victim for the two men, but they didn’t mind thinking about the boy and his behavior. They went to Ebenezer’s residence to capture the boy, but it was not an easy battle like one would suspect.
A simile is a comparison that describes two different things using ¨like¨ or ¨as.¨ The first way Connell demonstrates using a simile is in the example, ¨The sea was as flat as a plate glass window.¨ He describes the sea to a smooth glass window. During this part of the story, there was no breeze in the air and the ocean waves were still and calm, which caused Rainsford to feel stressed about the strange things that were happening around the island. Another way Connell used a simile was ¨... his thick eyebrows were pointed and military mustache was as black as the night from which Rainsford had come.¨
One example of a simile in the story was, “It was perfumed and gave off a smell like incense. ”“Connell 5”The author used this phase to put you in the place of Rainsford, use one of his five sense to better understand what he is going through at this point in the story. You get to know what he is smelling since they used a scent that most people know. This is also why it helped me the most since it was a familiar scent. If someone uses a reference that isn't as relatable or is hard to imagine then it will not be as helpful to the reader.
The story “A Costly Treasure” is a story about a boy who pursues an underwater treasure and meets a dangerous obstacle. This story uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in the story. For example hyperbole, alliteration, personification, etc. One example of figurative language that is used is personification. For example, in the story, it says “My fingers circled the shining object- a blade they told me smooth and sharp.
A simile is when two unlike things are compared using like or as. Strasser comments, “The heavy fog was like a trapdoor pressing down on her consciousness” (9). Strasser chose to use a simile to show how the fog was pressing down on her consciousness. The word like is the word that shows that a simile is being used in this quote. In this section of the story, Madison and Tyler have just dropped Lucy off at her house after a party.
This paragraph is all about similes I have found in the MDGLD. My first simile is (as if the air around us was actually poison). That author wanted the reader to know that the air was just like poison and people were breathing the air. The author was effective because I thought about the air we live now and if that air is poison.
Also, the author can use similes in a different way to show that the text can be inferred as something else or a particular person is not something people assume to be. Utterson kept on hearing a bunch of noise on the way back home and realizes that the sound is not a man, “ It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut,” (Stevenson 6). The reader will understand that the sound was not a man and that the sound was something else. This is why the simile will help the reader understand the text better. Similarly, Stevenson uses similes to grab the attention of the reader to show that women are wild and uncontrolled to give the reader a true meaning behind the text.
The first quote that is shown in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan makes excellent use of a simile when describing how the child in the story, Jing-mei, feels when saying these horrible things to her mother whilst in a verbal dispute. During an argument about how Jing-mei has stopped believing in herself and why her mother should stop trying and testing her, Jing-mei describes the things she says as “...worms and toads and slimy things were crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good…” (Tan 230. This quote is significant because of how the reader can understand deeper how these words made Jing-mei feel. A simile was one of the only ways that this could be done because of how much more freedom can be had when describing one sensation with another instead of an arbitrary array of descriptions; furthermore, used by Tan is another devise in the form of imagery to describe the situation Jing-mei is facing when she looks herself in the mirror and begins losing herself.
The author uses simile to show Ha’s personality and perspective. A quote from the novel that shows this is on page 5 when Ha says, “I was as red and fat as a baby hippopotamus.” This reveals that Ha lacks confidence. This is important because she remembers all the negative stuff people have said to her.
For instance the author writes “Without hearing his wife’s scream, the old man smiled weakly, put out his hands like a blind man, and fell, a senseless mass, to the floor. “ The author uses the simile, “put out his hands like a blind man,” to help the reader visualize what he is doing and help the reader understand the shock he is feeling. Also W. W. Jacobs
Similes are used to compare two thing using the words like or as. The poem says “Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say-” He uses this to describe Tim and how when he overheard the two people talking he just listened in the dark. Another example is “His face burnt like a brand.” The author uses this simile to describe the face of the highwayman when the daughter let her hair fall through the window.
Similes can be found in most of the lines. The use of the word “like” in lines 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 compare very different concepts to a deferred dream. In line 2, “Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun,” Hughes compares a dried raisin to a deferred dream (Hughes 426). In addition, as stated from an online source, “in the sun” means “in the public eye” which may refer to the idea that the failure of one is news to everyone. In line 4-5, “Or fester like a sore-/And then run,” the poet uses personification to illustrate the concept of a dream building up stress in your life and then not being able to fulfil it like how a sore festers and then disappears unexpectedly.
A line that shows simile is, “Silence like a cancer grows.” This is an example of simile because it is comparing silence to cancer. Another line that shows this is, “But my words like silent raindrops fell.” This is an example of simile because it compares his words to raindrops. The final line that shows this is, “As I walk like the ones before me.”
