Figurative Language Essays

After analyzing section three, I am able to determine that the author repeats ideologies and terms to emphasize their importance. The first significant term is kairos, which means to utilize the situation and occasion. An example of kairos occurs before school starts and stores place clothes and supplies on sale. All the students are searching for a fresh outfit with the purpose of wearing on the first day of school and so stores mark towards the students with back-to-school commercials and low prices. Commonly used figures of speech that switch one concept or idea for another are tropes.

The speakers of both poems reflect on their mornings with similar types of figurative language, but implement those types using different techniques. “Five A.M.” uses flowing syntax, peaceful diction and positive imagery, while “Five Flights Up” uses choppy syntax, bland diction and negative imagery. The different uses of figurative language in the two poems creates opposing ideas. The speaker in “Five A.M.” suggests that with a new day comes a refreshed, inherently good humanity. In contrast, “Five Flights Up” focuses on how humans have generally missed the mark of perfection.

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the author, uses an array of figurative language in her writing. She uses similes, idioms, and hyperboles in her book to make them interesting and intriguing. Similes help compare scenarios, idioms interpret a meaning by giving an object a role, and hyperboles exaggerate an action. Figurative language captures the reader's attention and gives sensory detail.

The descriptive passage above taken from, How the other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis, demonstrates the isolation of the Chinese community from the rest of New York. Riis uses figurative language such as hyperbole, metaphor, and quotation, as well as other literary devices, to depict the Chinaman as an embodiment of Chinatown itself, where the cultural aspects are portrayed through the man and his doings. The descriptive passage I wrote as an imitation demonstrates how the eyes take in factual information which is then distorted by perception and outside influential factors. I used the same types of figurative language to depict vision as an embodiment of truth as well as trickery. The concept is displayed through the eyes and what they see.

Enrique’s Journey is a real life story based on a son and his mother having to be seperated from one another due to the migration of the mother to the United State. Enrique’s mother Lourdes left Enrique in their hometown of Honduras at the age of 5, Enrique was devastated he could not handle the pain of being without his mother. After being separated from each other for 11 years Enrique was confident and gained all the strength inorder for him to reunite with his mother whether he has to make the dangerous odyssey of crossing through the border. Family abandonment leads to unimaginable repercussions. Lourdes reason behind leaving her family was to provide a better future for her children.

Imagine if we lived in a utopia, where we would all be the same. This happens in the short story “Harrison Bergeron”. This short story was written by Kurt Vonnegut, a 20th century, american author. It illustrates what life would be like in 2081 if people were intellectually limited due to handicaps. Vonnegut uses literary devices to develop his unique style.

The author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, used unprecedented craft in order to develop the characters as well as the plot. In The Stranger, there were several portions of the author’s craft such as symbolism, motifs, figurative language, juxtapositions, diction and Meursault’s characterization in which developed throughout the work, more in the last passage, that contributed to the reader’s interpretation of the work. Although these explicit fragments of the author’s craft were utilized throughout the work, within the last passage, they were essentially employed for the reader to be competent to further assimilate the significance these literary devices throughout the work. Throughout the novel, The Stranger, Meursault’s characterization was developed through the appliance of motifs and figurative language.

The language in 2.1.44-74 conveys Macbeth’s eagerness of taking over King Duncan by killing him, because many words connoted the coming of the dagger. For example, line 45 can be interpreted into-- the handle of the dagger is pointing at me. Come here, let me grab it, let me grab it to kill Duncan. This sentence showed that Macbeth was too impatient to wait to get his weapon. In addition to that, words like ‘toward’, ‘come’, and ‘clutch’ emphasized Macbeth’s zeal.

Atticus starts off the speech saying “gentlemen,” “I shall be brief, but I would like to use my remaining time to remind you that this is not a difficult one.” Atticus's tone sheds a few layers, too, becoming conversational rather than businesslike. He uses figurative language when he says “This case is as simple as black and white.” Basically, he points out that there's no evidence and that the prosecution is banking on the stereotype that all African-Americans are immoral liars who rape white women whenever they get the chance. He goes on to say that Tom is not guilty but someone in the room is.

ACT 1 Petruchio: “Sir, sir, the first’s for me; let her go by” Gremio: “Yea, leave that labour to the great Hercules, And let it be more than Alcides’ twelve.” (i.ii.262-264) Gremio’s allusion to Hercules was one of the greatest foreshadowing of the fate of Petruchio and Katherine in the whole play. Known to have many great labors in his life, Hercules was referred to as a master of the monsters; and perhaps only someone comparable to the notorious legend could be capable enough to tame the shrew.

The poem "Fear" by G. Mcstrawl uses many different types of figurative language. This poem talks about the feelings of a mother and misery in losing her daughter. She is fearful of her daughter leaving her. The poem uses repeated metaphors, imagery, and symbols to show the emotion and feelings of the mother. The author uses the metaphor, " I don't want them to turn her into a swallow" multiple times.

Tick ! This short story is about a person who has a deep desire to kill an eldery man. The Theme of the story is the effect of guilt or conscience. In The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe Uses Figurative language, Characterization, and symbolism to illustrate how psychotic twisted the mind of the narrator is. The narrator creates something that keeps the reader imprisoned and in its suspense.

Chinua Achebe, in his novel "things fall apart", reveals both the tradition and challenges in those tradition for the Igbo people using literary devices. In the passage , a a man named Okonkwo is having a wedding feast. Figurative language and simile is used to convey Achebe 's view points on tradition and what is affecting them. The tradition for a wedding feast is for it to be a large; additionally, Okonkwo always sticks to tradition.

The saying “Dulce et Decorum Est” means “It is sweet and right”. The final line of the poem is “Pro patria mori” which means “to die for one’s country”. Therefore the entire saying is, “it is sweet and right to die for to die for one’s country”. Wilfred Owen was an English poet who served in World War 1. During his time in the army, he was immersed in a lot of fighting. He was diagnosed with shellshock in 1917; shellshock is a term coined by soldiers.

Geoffrey Chaucer was an author, known as the father of English poetry for his recognition in all his literary works. He wrote the Canterbury Tales, which are multiple stories composed into one to create a form of poetry. "The Pardoners Tale" is the most recognized work of art he put together out of these multiple stories. The story is told in first person, which makes use of the story to lecture against the individuals who are ignorant, and profane. In this short tale about eagerness, but also death, Chaucer uses three forms of figurative language such as irony, personification, and symbolism to tell a story of three rioters.

Throughout the book his attitude towards the jacket changes as he learns to accept it. The main idea where this is portrayed is when he calls the jacket “that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder that day and ever since.” This quote also uses personification to describe his new feelings towards his jacket. The figurative language extends the understanding of his new reaction to the jacket by being able to relate to their own lives

The author’s utilization of selection of detail, figurative language and a tone of confusion portrayed the development of Estrella’s as one with strength and determination. The author’s usage of selection of detail, helps characterize Estrella’s strong and determined development. Through details that that the author reveals such as “reserving the desks at the back of the classroom for the next batch of migrant children” demonstrates that Estrella is probably a minority immigrant student. Thus, she must have experienced prejudice and discrimination in a new foreign environment.

There are many talented poets, but there is something special about Langston Hughes that makes him unique. He has many eye-opening poems. Langston Hughes is definitely one of a kind. The poems Cross and Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, use figurative languages such as imagery and syntax to provide more climax. Imagery.

In Othello by William Shakespeare, Othello opens with beautiful, eloquent language. He speaks in long monologues full of figurative language as he expresses his deep love for Desdemona. Desdemona claims that she originally fell in love with Othello because of his eloquent speech and mannerisms. However, when Iago uses the power of language to convince Othello of Desdemona’s infidelity, Othello looses his beautiful way of speech. When Othello looses his language he also looses his power over himself, and over others.

The Anglo-Saxons were people who were from Germanic tribes who migrated to Europe. They achieved dominance in England around 500 A.D. The origin of Anglo-Saxon comes from modern Latin “Anglo-Saxones” and medieval Latin “Angli Saxones” . The accepted modern use of the term "Anglo-Saxon" is when someone is apart of the Germanic tribes.