Authors use many words, phrases, and techniques to convey a certain mood to an audience. In the play “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” written by Rod Serling, the author uses many ways to convey a hostile mood to the reader. The mood of the text is the atmosphere created by the author, and the author uses certain words and phrases in order to portray hostility to the reader. For example, Serling shows an aggressive mood when the stage directions state, “He stands there perspiring, rumpled, blood running down from a cut on the cheek.” The author conveys a hostile mood by using word choice that creates a feeling of tension, drama, and violence by using the words “perspiring,” “rumpled,” and “blood.”
As a result to the use of these literary elements, Bloor, can use natural phenomenon to show a different figurative meaning. By reading Tangerine, I have realized how authors can creatively use language to have entirely different
The imagery Patrick Henry utilizes in his speech emphasizes the perception he has of commencing war with Britain. In this quote, "Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?" (P. 264), he exemplifies the feelings flowing through the Colonies during that time. Henry uses imagery to describe the deceitful British government giving the complaints of the oppressed Colonists a sly smile before brushing them aside which greatly decrypts the image the representatives had of the British.
The imagery she uses to describe her experiences creates a story that allows the audience to better understand the author and connect with her on a deeper level; two rhetorical devices she achieves this with are personification and metaphors. She uses several poetic lines throughout her entire essay. Some are in English while some are in Spanish and others are mixed with both languages. These lines allow her to break up her essay in a unique way, causing her structure to vary. It gives Anzaldua a way to transition into her next idea and convey concepts without having to explain them making her readers contemplate the meaning of the poetic lines before continuing on in the essay.
The way a sentence is worded, has a heavy impact on readers when the tone is either defeat, somber, or even death. In Ray Bradbury’s, There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury helps the reader understand tone by using diction and imagery. The first example of diction readers see is “ But no doors slammed,” (Bradbury 1). In the prior sentence the author uses certain words to make the reader feel a sense of urgency.
The setting and word choice, create the mood. In The Cask of Amontillado, it states, “I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” In this excerpt, the wording, such as “winding,” “cautious,” “descent,” “damp,” and “catacombs” were carefully chosen in order to create an unforeseen and a disturbing
The author uses intense imagery like, “...take the life of a man he had yet to meet.” (1) and dramatic words such as, “...a deep, slow breath, considering what he would have to do.” (1). The use of diction builds a suspenseful environment for the reader as it ignites curiosity in “...what he would have to do.” (1).
The phrase “drained from her lungs” creates a negative imagery of the character within the reader. The phrase show a rushing and dark effect because of how the writer describes character’s feeling within the text. The language features shows the character’s are involved
This demonstrates the nurturing in Alexie’s imagination. The logic of comparing everything to a single word allows readers to understand one of the ways in which the author taught himself to
INTRODUCTION Descriptive and figurative language is a way for an author to express and bring their characters’ life and experiences to life. Descriptive language is used to create images that appeal to the reader’s senses. Helping the reader to get a clear picture of how the subject looks, feels, smell or taste. In Vertigo, Amanda Lohrey uses descriptive language to bring the characters to life. She uses this to layer the emotions as they lead up to the climax.
Such wording invokes curiosity in the reader, making the author’s argument more
The exciting contrast in the sun metaphor continues in the narrator's choice of details. The narrator contrasts detailed descriptions with vague descriptions representing challenges to her sense of self. They provide certain information if they reflect a positive aspect of the narrator's emotional
By inserting strong word choices in Stevenson's literature it emphasizes the emotions and pressure he was experiencing due to the cases he had to work with. Words such as anguish and misery highlight the tensity he was feeling while trying to defend the innocent and convicted children. For Example,
This is shown when the characters in this novel speak out against a concept they know nothing about. Therefore, the literary terms an author uses can make an immense impact to the connections the reader makes to a novel, and help to shape a theme that is found throughout
The author connects the reader thanks to different literary and figurative devices as
