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In the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier there are several figurative language sentences and symbols that have meaning to the overall theme of the story. "Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion." (Collier 11) This means that Lizabeth is explaining everything she is going through and how her life and emotions are. She uses an accordion to describe this because an accordion is a fun and upbeat instrument and a "broken accordion" is the complete opposite.
In Edna’s Ruthie, Esperanza talks about a not so adult character, Ruthie. Ruthie is an adult, but there's something off about her. She acts so much like a child. Ruthie loves balloons, loves to play, and stays home with her mom.
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ novel, “Maud Martha,” the titular character uses colour to explore her world and experiences. Maud Martha exists in a world of metaphor, since metaphor is when something represents something it is truly not. She is told that her skin colour means something that is not true, that she is somehow less than people whose skin colour represents higher value. This seems to be why Maud Martha uses colour as a metaphor in her thought processes to create meaning in life. This is supported by bell hooks’ review of the film “Blue” by Derek Jarman.
In Allen's short story "Bread and the Land," the main character Hatch is impatiently waiting to meet his grandmother Blunt. The grandmother paints this picture of her being extremely wealthy. She promises the grandson Hatch expensive gifts that will appease him. Hatch realizes that his grandmother has been dishonest about the amount of money she possesses. Throughout the story, description and figurative language is used to convey the deep-rooted hatred that Hatcher develops for his grandmother Blunt.
At times that want is very conflicting for what is good and what the greater good is. The last major relationship Sadie has is with her other love, Anubis the god. He is the god of funerals and death. Sadie is conflicted with this love, the love for a god, and the love for Walt.
The author of my book uses many signposts, figurative language to express her theme that best friends know each other the best. In one scene Abby is asking Riya a question and it totally fits how abby’s since of humar. Riya thinks “ There’s my abby” will she is smiling. The girls haven't seen each other for a year, but yet they still are tight. There is also this one time when The girls are at a art museum and Riya not really the museum type so she kind of is just bored.
The pie by Gary Soto tells the story of a six years old boy. This boy lets the temptation get the best of him leading him to steal a pie. He struggles with the guilt throughout the story feeling as if he has disappointed everyone even though know one knew. Soto uses figurative language such as personification, allusion, metaphors, and similes to entertain the reader. His main intention is entertain but I can argue that he wrote the story to inform as well.
One of the significant factors that make Sainte Marie such an amazing work of literature is the author's style of writing. From the beginning of the story, the audience funs smack into heaps of masterfully written figurative language. For instance, in the first paragraph one is greeted by “ And I’d be carved in pure gold. With Ruby Lips.
“Sadie and Maud” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn was a poet who also published books for children, a novel, and two volumes of her memoirs. Sadie and Maud were sisters with the same parents, and grew up in the same home. Even though they shared some common things as children, later down the road life took its own toll on the both of them when it came to their education, lifestyle, and their outcome. Sadie was better known as the wild child.
Back then there was no way out of the marriage unless him/her pass away. When Mrs. Mallards found out that her husband passed away it’s like she could breathe again. This story shows us the view of rearranged marriage. A good wife was a wife that cooked, cleaned, and took care of the children.
In Eugene Collier’s short story, Marigolds, the author used figurative language and diction to convey a serious and angry tone on poverty. Marigolds, a tale full of voice elements, addressed the theme of poverty with indignation and sincerity. Though Lizabeth, Collier narrated the story; it was about a girl recalling her life during World War 2 in a poor family. In the first example of voice element, Lizabeth described poverty as “the cage in which we all were trapped” (Collier 1). She uses this metaphor to explain how penury anchored her family.
Do you feel like you act your own age? DO your emotions ever take over you to the point where you can't handle it? Sandra Cisneros's "Eleven" is a short story that characterizes Rachel. The author conveys figurative language, details, and imagery to describe Rachel.
In the poem "Sadie and Maud" by Gwendolyn Brooks, the sisters Sadie and Maud are presented as two very different women with different choices and paths in life. Sadie is portrayed as the wild and independent sister who chooses to have children and live a life of freedom and self-expression. On the other hand, Maud is presented as the more conventional and conventional sister who chooses to pursue education and become a teacher. In reference to Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," it can be inferred that Sadie takes the road less traveled, as she chooses to live a life that is not in line with societal expectations and norms. She embraces her sexuality and chooses to have children out of wedlock, which in the time period of the poem would have
5.3 Personal Pronoun For personal pronoun, Kennedy use word ‘we’ to talk to the reader which he wanted to sign the audience that the topic does not only involve himself but also the audience or in simpler words he wanted to say that ‘we all are in this together’. For example: For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future.
1. State what the poem [song] is about. The song is about a woman who is exhausted of being the person who cleans and does the housework and is in a lonely environment where no one understands her situation. She felt very lonely but then she learned to love herself and be comfortable with who she is.
