Recommended: Figurative language in popular music
In Bruce Cockburn’s Hoop Dancer, a song written in 1979 from the album The Trouble with Normal, he expresses his theme using a number of vivid rhetorical devices. The song begins by illustrating the scene using vivid personification. When recalling the sound heard he gifts it life recalling its laugh fading, its snake like nature, as well as its t sliding over the “seeming infinity of while light in neon,” This simple personification paints a vast picture that contrasts the age old sound with the crowded neon lit utopia of the present, this picture and contrast will set us up for the theme of this song. The next device cleverly utilized in this song is an anaphora this writer used to emphasize their point. After illustrating this horizontal
Stargirl, a novel by Jerry Spinelli, is a remarkable book that I could not put down. The author does a marvelous job of keeping the story interesting and entertaining to read by adding unexpected twists to the story, like when Stargirl became normal and then changed back to Stargirl again. While I was reading, I felt like I was in the story, like I was a student at Mica High School in Arizona. This is all thanks to the author’s stunning descriptions that included figurative language and superior word choice, like on page 85 when the author wrote, “In school I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms.” This novel is not like anything I have ever read before.
In the novel this quote “I pop the head off the Barbie doll…… I place a piece of tape over the Barbie’s mouth. ”(63) was an example of figurative languages. The figurative languages was a metaphor. Though Melinda the main character did not make the connection about her and the doll by her doing those stuff to the doll shows the reader that, that 's how she feels about herself and her ability to speak (communicate). It communicates a feeling better then it would if the metaphor was just written plain out saying that she hates herself and feels like her silents controls her.
The book uses unique diction and figurative language which popularized it in many literature classrooms across the United States. Zora Neale Huston uses a variety of diction, imagery, and figurative language. The use of imagery is what shapes up the book and contributes to the overall theme the author is portraying. Which is finding true love and having self-acceptance.
The author states, “I imagine my picture on the cover of Entertainment Weekly… Someday” (Donna Gephart 6). The author uses allusion which refers to pop culture of the past. The reason I think the author uses allusion is to talk about pop culture and David's dreams to be in a magazine. The reason i think this quote was so important for the reader was to show the David's dream to be in a magazine and be a somebody. The author states, “Now grade is at Herman Middle School.
The excerpt from the book “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and the short story “Superman and Me” are both biographical accounts of learning a language along with the struggles with it. They share the purpose of portraying the elation one feels when they have been able to proficiently learn a language. They both use a chronological organization of their text along with figurative language. The authors take contrasting approaches towards the subject matter, one is more comical while the other has a social justice demeanor. They use disparate diction selections, comparisons, and references.
" Poetic devices such as metaphor and irony are used throughout the song,
This song contains many literary devices such as repetition, simile, metaphor, assonance, rhyme, onomatopoeia, and allusion. Throughout the song Tyler The Creator uses repetition. We can see this in the very beginning of the song when Tyler repeats “Call me, call me, call me, uh”. This
In the What Would You Do we saw a video where there is sexism and racism with this said that means people will judge you for your race and gender. In Scenario 1: A White Guy, Scenario 2: Black Guy, and in Scenario 3: Pretty Girl. My point is now that what will happen in these scenarios and what are people's reaction? In scenario 1: White Guy, there is a white male at least 16-17 years old and is stealing a bike, in an open area, where people can see him, in a park.
For example, the first stanza creates the image of a little girl playing with the usual toys, like the baby born dolls (the dolls that did pee-pee), mini GE stoves, and makeup. Female readers can easily relate to playing with these toys as children. They are the typical toys given to girls at a young age, which is the point of presenting this information. It shows the girl was brought up like usual, which makes it seem like the ending of the poem could also become commonplace. It also gives a good visual representation of her body at the funeral when the speaker says she has a “turned up putty nose”, which makes the girl seem both perfect and fake.
Her inner self craves for freedom to drive past and achieve something. She envisions her song as a luxurious Cadillac, where she now wants a materialistic world. She is in her imaginary world until the heat of the urn in her hand bring back her to reality, where she starts comparing to her real life, hallow and vapid. She attempts to find comfort in her room, as she says “coffee cruises my mind visiting the most remote way stations, I think of my room as a calm arrival each book and lamp in its place.” She starts to reflect her possessions and the security they give her and what they represent in her life.
Speak Essay: Figurative language has a tremendous influence on literature because it enlivens the words and makes them jump off the page. This allows the reader to visualize the scene in a unique, explicit way. Laurie Anderson’s Speak demonstrates an abundant use of figurative language. Figurative language appears in various forms; this includes simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, hyperbole and more.
Molding of the Perfect Woman: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” “…on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming…” (Kincaid, 320). This phrase accurately represents the point that is being made in this passage. In Jamaica Kincaid’s piece, “Girl”, her mother is giving her advice on how to be and act like a proper woman. Her mother describes everything from how to properly do laundry to how to set a table for all occasions (Kincaid, 3-4).
Her use of personification is a creative way to make her point without coming right out and saying that poetry should be looked at as a normal
Jamaica Kincaid writes “girl” A story or poem that is something like a lecture from a mother figure to a daughter figure. There is an enormous amount of ways to present the tone. The tone of “Girl” is loving, caring, but strict. Jamaica uses literary devices to achieve the tone. She uses characters, setting, plot, point of view and style to establish a tone.
