This paragraph employs robotic imagery most heavily and also uses loaded diction more than others. This section even goes so far as to call Worth’s body in intensive care as, “a nightmare of tubes and wires, dark machines silently measuring every internal event, a pump filling and emptying his useless lungs.” This section channels the intensity of an event like this and the fear one and one’s loved ones feel when the shade of fatality affects a person. Imagery also plays a large part in this section and places the reader in the situation John Jeremiah Sullivan was in through imagery like “The stench of dried spit”. This passage’s imagery challenges the reader to undergo the stale smell described and to witness the machine that Worth is connected to.
In “Marching Through a Novel,” by John Updike, Updike conveys a complex relationship between novelist and characters, portraying the author as a god-like figure whose characters are left to his whims and wishes. Updike accomplishes this characterization through his diction, imagery and use of metaphor. Updike conveys this relationship with vivid imagery throughout the poem. His diction, such as “Misty faces,” “unraveling bandages,” “trench warfare,” and “a harsh taskmaster” all create ominous imagery for the reader; the poem also seems to have a dark mood or create a kind of helplessness. The poem seems like the author wants to help his characters described in the poem, but he is unable to for some reason.
Throughout the story of “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets,” the author uses three main ways to introduce what the Protagonist is experiencing to his readers. Being able to use diction, (what words are being used), details, (the usage of words), and imagery (the image of something, someone, or a moment in time), really helps the readers understand the Protagonist. With readers understanding the Protagonist and what is going on, makes the story more relatable to the readers. The author really gives his readers a good understanding of what the Protagonists is experiencing through the usage of imagery.
In the short story “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury illustrates how the overuse of technology is catastrophic for human emotion and functions through the application of foreshadowing and personification. The parents are worried about what their children are conjuring up when they say, “Those screams - they sound awfully familiar.” “Do they?” “Yes, awfully. ”And though their beds tried very bard, the two adults couldn’t be rocked to sleep for another hour.
The imagery that Connell creates in The Most Dangerous Game captivates the audience into a tale that makes one’s heart stop even for a split second. The feelings of suspense are nearly tangible to the reader when the silence of the writing surrounds them. Additionally, the two contradicting moods are easily flowed through together and yet discreetly set apart due to Connell’s use of imagery in various scenes. Despite all the other literary devices used within The Most Dangerous Game, imagery has to be the element that really allows the emotions of the literary piece to connect to its
He conveys the story’s themes and messages through metaphors and imagery. Consequently, the distinct use of language echoes the distinct themes of
Ray Bradbury uses several craft moves throughout his dystopian story names ‘The Veldt’. Using imagery, foreshadowing, and irony; Ray Bradbury enriches the story with these varying craft moves. Each is used to place the setting and feel of the story in the readers’ minds. Imagery is a craft move that was used to detail important areas in the story and help sell the scene Bradbury is creating to the reader. This is used to build a mood; one in particular is suspense.
Throughout life, we all go through rough moments where we think all is lost. However, we as humans always grow from these experiences and turn into beings with a new awakening and understanding of the world. In a passage from The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, the narrator describes a striking ordeal, in which a man is coping with the death of a she-wolf. Despite the cause of death being left ambiguous, this dramatic experience has a vivid effect on the main character—causing him to change and grow into a new man by the end of the passage. McCarthy uses eloquent and expressive diction to create imagery which gives the reader an understanding of the narrator’s experience, supplemented by spiritual references as well as setting changes, elucidating the deep sadness and wonder felt by the protagonist.
In the physical reality, mood is used to distinguish how someone feels. However in the literary world, authors tend to manipulate mood in order to draw a reader in. Within Jack Finney 's "Contents of a Dead Man 's Pocket," Finney manipulates the reader’s mood in order to capture their attention. Similarly, Richard Connell alters the readers mood by creating suspense within his story "The Most Dangerous Game," drawing the audience into the story. However, while Finney creates anxiety among the readers through description, Connell creates tension through the characters speech, thought, and describing the actions of others.
Richard Wright’s poem “Between the World and Me” mourns the tragic scene of a gruesome lynching, and expresses its harsh impact on the narrator. Wright depicts this effect through the application of personification, dramatic symbolism, and desperate diction that manifests the narrator’s agony. In his description of the chilling scene, Wright employs personification in order to create an audience out of inanimate objects. When the narrator encounters the scene, he sees “white bones slumbering forgottenly upon a cushion of ashes,” and a sapling “pointing a blunt finger accusingly at the sky.”
Imagery is an important literary device used by authors to paint vivid and detailed pictures in the mind of the reader. Through the use of imagery, the author can help the reader become enveloped in the story by using figurative language and visually descriptive terms to build on the reader’s own perception of the scene itself. Imagery serves as an essential tool for enhancing the understanding of each involved character, the setting in which it takes place, the meaning of the story itself, and the themes involved in telling the story. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, imagery is used to create a vivid sense of place and person, thereby deepening the reader’s connection to the characters throughout the novel. Written in 1937 by American literary author Zora
For example, “There was Casey’s Manner as he stopped into his place.” This gives a clear picture in the reader's head. The poem also uses literary devices to give the poem its feeling. For example, “There was a muffled roar like the beating of the storm waves.” This is showing how people were upset but not fully yelling kind of like waves during a storm and how they hit a certain times.
Symbolism, Transformation, and Death The art of literature allows for endless creativity and gives authors the ability to entertain and enlighten readers. Despite the limitless possibilities and wide variety of stories, many pieces of literature share similarities that are often missed by readers. Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” is a tale of two close brothers, Henry Junior and Lyman, whose relationship is tested by the psychological effects of the Vietnam War, and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a pregnant woman and man’s discussion regarding a potential abortion as they wait for a train. These two short stories are examples of writing that appear different on the surface but are notably similar when examined
one of the many times he uses imagery throughout this story is when the narrator says, “on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (Pg 1). By using imagery to compare walking through the neighborhood as walking through a graveyard shows that it is completely silent and there is no activity in any of the houses. Most people wouldn't describe their neighborhood as a graveyard, this also develops the mood. Another time he uses imagery is when the narrator says, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country” (1). This shows mood because the narrator describes him as a hawk in mid-country, that means that he is all alone in what he feels to be like a barren or abandoned place.
There are seven stanzas in this poem and the techniques appeared in the poem are Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, and Alliteration. The imagery is the techniques used all over the seven stanzas in this poem to describe the image of the Death the movement, and the sound which included Auditory, Visual, and Kinetic. The First stanza described the environment in the cemeteries, the heart refers to the dead bodies in the graves and a tunnel could be coffins. The dead bodies sleeping in a tunnel which give the image of the coffin and in this stanza the poet also used a Simile in the last three lines by using word “like” and “as though.”
