4. Literary Devices Imagery is found amongst the whole novel, it helps the readers to visualize what is happening from the characters point of view. When Lina had to draw a man from a photograph, she felt that her “skin prickled at the sight of [the commander]” when he was standing over her (Sepetys 174). This allows us to feel how Lina felt while having to draw for the NVKD.
The other rhetorical devices Tan used was narrative, illustration, casual analysis, and argumentation. Narrative was effective because she told her own story and used dialogue. Illustration was effective because she provided personal experience. Casual analysis was effective because she explained how some people don't understand or ignore what her mother says. Argumentation was effective for when Amy's mother
“Woodchucks” by Adrienne Rich, and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Maxine Kumin, are both poems with a heavy focus on animals. “Woodchucks” describe its selected animal as a pest, mentioning how they steal their food and invade their property. However, in “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” tigers are portrayed as noble, brave, and majestic. The protagonist of each story goes through a different journey. In Rich’s story, the homeowner first seems fairly innocent, and is shown to simply find the woodchucks annoying.
One of the most important aspects of “grit lit” is the violence that occurs in almost every novel. The violence that reoccurs throughout all of the “grit lit” novels allows for a more exciting plot and character conflict throughout the novel. One of the most influential and famous southern writers is Harry Crews. Crews is responsible for many different novels, short stories, and autobiographies, and almost all of his works include some type of violence. The main reason for violence in southern literature is due to the unordinary, low-life characters that the author includes to allow for a violent plot.
The feeling of astonishment and awe are directed into the speaker’s impersonal tone. During the poem, the speaker leaves out emotional ties in
The short fictional excerpt from the novel All the Pretty Horses uses multiple literary devices to help convey its true meaning. The first noticeable literary device in this excerpt is called diction. This is essentially the choice of words the author uses in a paper. In All the Pretty Horses, the author uses words such as wainscoting and pier glass to represent simpler words like wall and mirror. Even though these words are quite advanced, they fit well in the story.
Joan Didion views the Santa Ana winds as malevolent entities, both powerfully frightening and mysteriously dangerous in her essay, "Los Angeles Notebook. " The wind is believed to change the people that it touches, causing people to behave in most uncharacteristic manners. While science proves that the ratio of positive to negative ions is significantly higher before the wind blows, it doesn 't explain why people are so drastically affected. Through Didion 's use of diction in word choices like "eerie", "ominously", "malevolent", and "surreal", a tone of suspenseful tension is conveyed as the people await the Santa Ana Winds -- and the tone serves the purpose of portraying Didion 's opinion that the winds are "sinister" and "mechanistic" and something to be avoided. Similarly, the method that Didion uses to string along her sentences conveys the tone as well - the excerpt is filled with a plethora of loosely constructed sentences which serve to layer on the detail and build the suspense.
The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques in “Eleven” to characterize Rachel by using metaphors, comparisons, and repetition. In the beginning of Sandra Cisneros’s short story, she states that when a person becomes an age older they will not feel a difference. The character Rachel explains that in different situations, for example, “Like some days you might say something stupid, and [you will feel ten]” a person might feel different from their actual age. She then competes growing old to layers of an onion, rings of a tree, wooden dolls that fit inside each other because, according to her, “that’s how being eleven years old is”.
If one is in a situation where speaking up against an injustice would result in being killed, what should they do? This theme is apparent in both the graphic novel Maus and the memoir Night as they focus on life during the holocaust for Jews. Maus by Art Spiegelman is the story of Art’s father Vladek and his experiences leading up to his capture and placement into the concentration camps. Night is a personal memoir by Elie Wiesel. The memoir guides the reader through Elie and his father’s experiences at concentration camps.
Someone once said, “Maturity is not measured by age. It’s an attitude built by experience.” (Searchquotes). These experiences help advance maturity and prepare adolescence for the real world. In coming of age literature, writing that is meant to appeal to teenagers, the key is to evolve a believable and authentic character through these incidents.
Ray Bradbury is a good writer because he comes up with a well-developed theme/setting with the use of different things. For example in the short story “The Pedestrian” he uses a bunch of literary devices such as internal conflict, static character and more. In “The Pedestrian” leonard mead who is fighting his loneliness by walking but when a copcar sees him it takes him to a psychiatric center but before this happened he despised technology because he said that it ruins people's lives and makes them depreciate the world around them. The author of “the pedestrian“ Ray Bradbury uses many writing techniques to better his story by using them to develop his theme and mood. Furthermore these, examples show that Ray Bradbury is a good writer because he comes up with a well-developed theme/setting with the use of different things.
Rich 's "Storm Warnings" has more than one meaning. One being literal, and another being metaphorical. The literal meaning of the poem is that there is an impending storm, and the author is anticipating and preparing for the storm to come. The metaphorical meaning of the poem is the author is suffering from an emotional storm. The literal and metaphorical meanings of the poem are shown to be similar when Rich writes, "Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on regardless of prediction.
The balance between her reminiscing the past or holding on to so much aggression that she is forced to let go. These balances of struggle hold true throughout the entire poem to highlight the subliminal metaphors equipped with items typically used to destroy rather than build, along with symbolism that alludes to fighting
The excerpt begins with Petry introducing the wind as a main antagonist through the careful use of personification. The cold wind “[drives] most of the people off the street”, “set[s] a barrage of paper swirl[ing] into the faces of people”, and even “make[s] it difficult to breathe.” These unpleasant and abrasive acts of the wind succeed in their goal of discouraging the residents of the city. They respond with frustration
18th century Europe, otherwise known as the “Enlightenment Period,” was another period of history that--after promptly succeeding the Renaissance--unleashed a new swathe of artistry onto the world. Writers of this time period focused on the ideas of “human existence” in abstract. They were often harsh critics, which really did well to set a precedent of writers to come. Many of these criticisms came in the form of poetry, thinly-veneered satire, and comic novellas that shone a light on these concepts with their interesting perspectives. Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man,” and Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” are all great examples of pieces of writing introduced at the time.
