The article also uses the technique of similes to influence the reader. Cusk uses the simile, 'like a spurned lover continuing to send flowers when the recipients affections moved elsewhere,' to refer to the way her daughter and her daughters friends talk about their mothers as if they are worthless and beneath consideration. Cusk uses this simile to create better imagery of the disrespectful attitudes of teenage girls, thus making it easier for the reader to understand the situation. The simile 'as if they were trying on a pair of shoes that were slightly too big for them,” is also used in the article extract, and refers to the matter in which the girls talk about their Fathers.
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the author, uses an array of figurative language in her writing. She uses similes, idioms, and hyperboles in her book to make them interesting and intriguing. Similes help compare scenarios, idioms interpret a meaning by giving an object a role, and hyperboles exaggerate an action. Figurative language captures the reader's attention and gives sensory detail.
Billy Collins’s poetry is marked by - and loved for - its accessibility. His work is not too complex, and it is easier to understand than some others. The title of the poem, “Introduction to Poetry,” introduces us the theme of the poem. Throughout the poem Collins uses copious metaphors that when coalesced show the readers how to rightly read a poem and how not to.
Is ist possible to hate something so much that you soon begin to love it? In the poem " America" written by Claud Mckay, Mckay does just that. McKay uses powerful words to express his feelings about America. In doing this Claude McKay uses literary elements such as personification, similes, and iron to discuss the love and hate he has for the country he lives in.
The meaning of symbolistic metaphor expressed incisively and vividly in the six panel illustration narrative of John Cornella’s work. The illustrator crated a character who addicted to follow the trends. We can clearly see the bright color using and funny dots print arrange into a “S” curve in this frame which produced the strong visual effects. The last panel is the climax of story by following the similar phenomenon analogy in above, it looks like the character broken his leg into a creepy L words and express a creepy felling to audience, but actually the illustrator demonstrated into a side way to satirized the people who following blindly and bringing out the people who lost independent thought. It becomes the key feature to attracted audience
The speaker's figurative language conveys the author's purpose by using different metaphors to emphasize different points. The speaker says, “ I’ve been kicked around since I was born.” This conveys figurative language because he hasn’t really been kicked around since he was born, but he is using this metaphor to show that he has been throw a lot since early childhood. So metaphorically he use this to show his struggles. The speaker also asserts, “ I get low and I get high
Walter drinking is an example of symbolism used in the story is when Walter would come home drunk and would spend all his time at the bar. Walter drinking all the time can symbolize that he has a lot to deal but that he doesn’t want to deal with all his problems so he goes and drinks to get away from it all. But when he comes back home his wife and family have to deal with him being drunk and getting mad at them.
In the painting, Kiss Me and You’ll kiss the ‘Lasses, Lily Martin Spencer used a woman holding a spoon and the title to demonstrate the beginning of challenging gender roles which relates to John Steinbeck’s cynical tone about gender roles and stereotyping in The Grapes of Wrath, thus proving that despite how far society seems to have come when it comes to gender equality, people still endure discrimination and stereotypical pressures today because of the sex they were born into. The woman in the picture is smiling at whoever is painting her or whoever is looking at her. The person, most likely a man, is tempted to kiss her but she warns, with the title, that if he does so she’ll hit him with the spoon she has in her hands. Also it’s ironic that the lady who
4. Abject in “About Face” Similarly to the crucial aspects above, the poem “About Face” represents some issues already mentioned. The poem “About Face”, by Patience Agbabi is a poetic depiction of the mythological painting of the goddess of the hunt Diana and a hunter Actaeon. First of all, the poem has an interesting structure and way of representing and conveying its meaning.
The Hidden Hills In the past century, women have started to stand up for themselves and do what they want regarding their body. Men previously have made all the important decisions, controlled women, and really only saw them as objects or entertainment. Slowly but surely, however, women gained their power and voiced their opinions for what they wanted. This can be seen in Jig’s character in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.”
There were limits but my body was nevertheless lithe, single, solid, one with me. Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping.” (Atwood 91). This makes the reader believe that Offred has given into the social injustice at Gilead being the oppression of women.
Traditionally female, the attachment of regality [“Imperial lord of the high southern coast” (11)] to the muse would constitute a dramatic ‘talk back’ to the existing power structures between the sexes. Furthermore, the rigidity of perceiving sexed objects is considerably fractured through such reversals. Thus in the very first lines, burgeoning cracks begin to appear at the foundation of gendered convictions which were prevalent during Smith’s time. Crickenberger says, in Wandering Around in Beachy Head, that the looming promontory is “not a place to be built up stone on top of stone in the mind of the reader, but a colossal force to be reckoned with all at once—like the imagination of the poet herself” (3).
One significant part of the story that uses imagery is the description of the characters. One of the main characters in this story is Miss Amelia. Unlike other stories or novellas that tend to describe women characters as feminine, Carson McCullers gives Miss Amelia a masculine appearance. Miss Amelia has short hair that is always brushed back, she is dark-skinned, cross-eyed, and “a tall woman with bones and muscles like a man” (4).1 Miss Amelia is measured to be six feet and two inches tall. This is not the typical height of woman and they are usually shorter than men, but in Miss Amelia is an inch taller than Marvin Macy.
She talks about the dangers of female sexuality because it could ruin her life. She tells how to get the power of domesticity. She also tells her how her daughters sexual reputation should be instead of what it is. Even though female sexuality can be a diverse topic, Kincaid was able to stick to one view of female
This directly corroborates society’s viewing of her as the description only includes her sexual physical assets. Duffy writes this because she is trying to convey the sufferings of women in society as they are consistently objectified, devaluing their nature as a human being, and she invokes people to make a change. This theme of valuing women in a restrictive way as one only notices the physical elements of a female is continued throughout the poem, for example when the artist “is concerned with volume, space”, or “You’re getting thin, Madame, this is not good”. This directly references the corporeal elements of a body. The purpose of this quotation is consistent with the aforementioned one.
