1,053,829 people died in the Soviet gulags. In the novel Between Shades of Gray, readers see Lina get taken from her home in Lithuania to go to a Soviet gulag camp in Russia with her brother and mother. In her travels, she makes new friends and new enemies. Ruta Sepetys uses Symbolism, Flashbacks, and Unique structure.
During the 1830s, the Great Depression took over America’s brightness and joy, shattering the American spirit. Citizens searched for a light to help people get their lives back together. During this searching, they found Seabiscuit to bring them hope. Seabiscuit is a racing horse that received the right trainer and rider to make him a legend. Seabiscuit’s story is beautifully portrayed in Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Seabiscuit.
There are many different reasons that authors use different literary devices. Zusak most likely uses literary devices in his writing to help convey his ideas to his intended audience. One example of a literary device in Zusak’s writing is when he writes, “To her right, a book protruded like a bone.” (450) Zusak compared the book to a bone to make his writing more interesting and create an image in the reader’s mind to show how the book stood out to Liesel. This allows the reader to clearly understand just how Liesel saw the book and why she chose that book when there were plenty of other choices for her.
Imagery is a way of writing that the author gives you visual descriptive writing or figurative language. One quote that stood out to me was “There would be other Sheila Mant’s in life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secrets, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made that mistake again. ”(41) This quote has a lot of meaning in this story
Thomas C. Foster states in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, that there are three main items to understanding literature. The first item is memory; Memory helps a reader connect works of literature with other experiences as a way of possibly better understating the writing at hand. Symbolism is the second item noted by Foster. Symbolism can be used to open a readers mind to the big picture being painted. Not all works of literature are as complicated, as to where symbolism is splattered through the pages.
Yusef Komunyakaa is like no other poet. He experiences make his poetry seem as if the reader is actually in the poem. Yusef was born on April 29th 1947, he was born in the of Bogalusa, Louisiana. He had five other siblings of which he was the oldest. Komunyakaa had a young adult experience in war which has had an effect on his writing and poetry since his years serving.
He gives the audience an experience like no other. Literary devices help show how the Jews of Sighet are in denial of the Nazis threat. The author uses irony, metaphors, and similes to help give the audience something to relate too, what the Jews of Sighet are going through. To help the audience understand what they are going through. For example on page 7, "the quote The German's won't get as far as this.
The use of images in Maus allows the reader to see the events and characters
In his short story “Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism and imagery to show the concept of good versus evil. Symbolism is essential to literature because it helps create meaning and emotion in a story. Imagery is crucial to literature because it helps create a vivid experience for the reader. Hawthorne uses both to draw the reader in.
When we read, we want to truly enjoy what is written we need to become a part of the story. And literary devices help us to better see and feel the storyline. A good storyline captures all of our senses, these devices draw the reader in, paint a picture, heighten the senses, and pull at us emotionally. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story The Birthmark, some of the key literary devices used were irony symbol and theme.
Although these lines are also an instance of characterization, they are an excellent example of imagery as well. King’s description supplies us with a very distinct mental image of the man in the black suit, that the reader can continue to visualize as they read the
The use of imagery is important to the story because the author is able to form images in the reader 's mind about the way that certain events unraveled in the story and to describe the appearance of certain objects and places in the story. An example of how the use of imagery was used in the story to describe an event was when the daughters father ran out of the house to shoot some crows because he believed that it was an American tradition, “father heard a
Symbolism can use an object (like a tree of birds), or art, (like Melinda’s art project or Mr. Freeman's canvas) to represent an abstract idea. Laurie Halse Anderson uses symbolism to hint at a certain mood or emotion, rather than just blatantly saying it. So, the use of symbolism is important because it helps create meaning and emotion in a story. Symbolism makes a book fun to read, the symbolism produces a thought provoking work of art and it, (like in this book), adds meaning to seemingly unrelated objects and elicits emotions in the
Lamb to the Slaughter is an action packed short story about a wife who is let down by her husband and proceeds to kill him as an act of revenge. Obviously much more happens in this story consisting of humour, action, mystery and irony. Roald Dahl is a master of writing short stories in ways that attract readers, draw them into what is happening through using literary elements and universal themes to make the story relatable to the readers. In this story the main literary elements were foreshadowing, situation and dramatic irony, imagery and symbolism which really drew me in and kept me attached to the story. Literary elements are what make a story powerful and attracts readers to continue reading in the story and in this story they highlight the universal theme of Revenge and Betrayal.
The protagonist, Offred, often recalls her life before the regime took power, and these memories are interwoven into the narrative of the novel. These flashbacks are used to contrast the past with the present, highlighting the obvious differences between the two to emphasize the loss of freedom and individuality that has occurred under the regime in the present. They also provide context for the reader, allowing us to understand how society reached this point instead of just jumping straight into it. As stated above, the fate of other characters close to Offred from her past, such as Moira and Luke, is also revealed gradually throughout the novel. This gradual release of information allows the novel to build suspense and tension, as readers are left wondering about important questions and events, including what a potential cause was of society that led to Gilead dominating.
