"EXAMPLE: ""His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right...his thumb parallel to his thigh""(Lee 3)." Imagery: Descriptive language that involves the human senses. The description that Lee gave to the reader about Jem's uneven arm was very into depth which gives the reader a legit visual of the differences in the arm size, the human sense that this imagery refers to is sight, the reader can mentally use what they read about involving the difference in arm sizes and can imagine it easily due to the interpretation in this imagery. "EXAMPLE : ""The disturbance between the North and the South""(Lee 4)." Allusion: An indication to a person, place, thing, etc. Lee uses the literary device of allusion, the North and the Sourh, to perhaps show …show more content…
"When using alliteration it gives emphasis on what's being said. Instead of using more common synonyms for the word professional, Lee decided to use alliteration. Perhaps this was meant to interpret that it is commonly thought of in the era that ""professional people were poor""(Lee 27). It could be stated in this format to show that even the ones who worked hard didnt get what they deserved." "EXAMPLE: ""Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food:""(Lee 30)." Simile: A comparison using like or as. Using a simile gives the reader more of a visual on the situation. Instead of just stating Walters appearance, the extra mile is made which shows the audience a comparison of how Walter truly looks. It also gives the writing more of a realistic set up, sometimes its difficult for the reader to visualize whats being said just by a description. "EXAMPLE: ""miles of construction paper""(Lee 43)." Hyperbole: Using exaggeration in a figure of speech. The narrator, Scout, uses a hyperbole for two reasons. The main reason is to show how she's tired of just using construction paper. She feels as though all she ever does is do projects and use construction paper. That she always has to do something she finds no interest in. Another reason could be to show the reader how much construction paper and wax crayons she had to
In this short, but charming story, Amy Tan uses imagery to bring the story to life. With figurative language, the reader is immersed into the Chinese culture and can better relate to the characters. Tan main use of imagery is to better explain each character. Often instead of a simple explanation, Tan uses metaphors, similes, or hyperboles to describe the person, this way they are more relatable and their feelings better understood.
In the story Canyons, one technique the book uses is descriptive language. ¨There was no moon, but enough light came from the stars so that his eyes grew used the darkness he could see the canyons moving up into the sky.¨ The quote is showing descriptive language because it´s describing what Brennan's eyes saw in the sky, he says how the only light that he saw in the sky were the stars, it was dark because the moon was gone, and it was so dark the only thing he saw was the canyons going up to the sky.¨ Dust and sand so thick, they had
Metaphors and Similes are often used in this story, so the reader has a better image of the setting, this is something, and I find Connell did incredibly well, for instance when he refers to the darkness of the night like moist black velvet, the sea was as flat as a plate-glass and it was like trying to see through a blanket.
Both authors use sensory imagery to create vivid images in the reader's mind with ease. In Harrison “In the trenches,” he uses descriptive similes and personifications to show the reader the disturbing reality of war effectively. After being viscously bombed, Harrison beautifully describes the “S.O.S” flare that is sent up shortly after being attacked, saying that “the sky is lit by hundreds of fancy fireworks like a night carnival.” This descriptive simile creates a visual image of a sky so bright that it resembles a carnival at night. As incoming bombs were dropping Harrison describes them by using the simile “the air screams and howls like an insane woman,” from this line any reader can imagine what it would sound like if artillery was dropping and exploding near you. Similarly, in twains “two ways of seeing a river,” he uses similes to create vivid images of the “majestic river.” Right from the beginning twain states that “I [have] mastered the language of this water and…every trifling feature…as familiarly as I [know] the letters of the alphabet.” This simile compares his vast knowledge of all the features of the river to his familiarity to the alphabets. The reader can visualize the importance and beauty of the river. Also, both authors similarly utilize sensory
Prejudice, a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason nor actual experience, is an exceptionally large dilemma in society today. It is an every day reminder of how uncharitable we, as a human race, can be. Even in the early 1900s, as Harper Lee illustrates in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudiced assumptions have always been causing predicaments. To Kill a Mockingbird, an award winning novel written by Harper Lee, tells the story of how Scout and Jem Finch grows up in a small Southern town suffering through the Great Depression. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee expresses the theme of prejudice throughout the majority of her characters. Not only does she have many themes in her novel, but she is also able to incorporate them in many of her characters at once. The theme of prejudice is seen through Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson.
Smith likes to leave the reader with the possibility of more intrigue to an already verbose tale or anecdote. No explanation (or rather exploration) is left simply explained in full, the reader is given a nugget of something else to think about as well: “So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn’t drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past” (271). Smith is certainly keen on using metaphor and simile as there will often be two or sometimes three metaphors or similes all packed in a single elongated sentence. “He wanted it to be perfectly quiet and still, like the inside of an empty confessional or the moment in that brain between thought and speech” (4). Simile is Smith’s most used literary device, one used affectively
Stephen King uses imagery to describe his personal situations in his journey to the writing career. On page 1, King discusses his experience reading Mary Karr’s memoir The Liars’ Club. He begins to explain his childhood and how it was an “odd, herky-jerky childhood.” Then goes to explain how Karr presents her childhood in her memoir. He compares his childhood to hers by stating his childhood was “a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees . . . the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you.” In that statement it states 3 literary elements. The first one is a simile, which is comparing two things using like or as. He compares his memories to isolated trees. The second literary element I see
As Aunt Alexandra has been living with the family she has started judging Scout's clothes, "I could not, possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could so nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants" (Lee 108). As Scout grows, up she faces the force of adulthood, which involves her becoming more lady like. Once Scout realizes that she has to give up part of her past, she feel reluctant to do so. Aunt Alexandra tries to push Scout into the family legacy, but instead Scout feels the need to hide from the reality of moving on which means growing up. Scout wants to be herself and not forced to be a "Finch". She doesn't want to be molded into something or someone that she's not. Scout escapes the pressures of being a "lady" by hanging out with her brother and Father, where she was more at "home" and not surrounded by "hypocrites"- fragrant ladies. Scout's need and desires to be herself are not acceptable within her community and it pains her to convert to becoming a "Finch", a stereotypical Southern
Core Question 1: Why does the author use a metaphor on page 128, paragraph 35?
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
Truman Capote uses a simile in order for the readers to visualize what the scenery looks like. He compares the country to a lake using the word “as.”
There are many books in the world that introduce the theme of prejudice using not only the racial standpoint, but also the way society looks at people as a whole. Not many of these books look at this touchy subject through the mind of a child. The book To Kill a Mockingbird takes that theme and runs with it. Harper Lee, the author of the book, decided to put aside all normal writing styles and take on a challenging and touchy subject of predigest and unjust in the norms of society from the eyes of the most innocent, children. The reason Lee decided to take this complicated viewpoint is to show the effects on a child’s behavior and the responses you could get out of such an impressionable mind. Writing in the eyes of a child also lets the reader get a new perspective in a way that the mind of an adult would not be able to understand. There are many examples of predigest in the eyes of a
Lee’s clever use of imagery leads the readers to see the different perspective of all the characters. “Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children
Harper Lee uses symbolism extensively throughout To Kill a Mockingbird,, and much of it refers to the problems of racism in the South during the early twentieth century. Harper Lee's effective use of racial symbolism and allegory can be seen by studying various examples from the book, namely the actions of the children, of the racist whites, and of Atticus Finch.
Metaphors are used by Chesterfield, whereby he uses them to portray his son’s values. Chesterfield builds his son up, and provides all the obstacles that could come into his life in the near future. He takes his time to warn his son about the problems, and struggles that he is to face in the future through a metaphor where he says, “thorns and briars which scratched and disfigured me in the course of my youth” (Stanhope 91). He refers to these problems as thorns and briars. He was frightened that his son was going to make the same mistakes he made while he was a youth and so, he had to warn him in advance of what awaits him. He uses metaphors in his warnings just to emphasize his points. Later on, in his warnings to his son; Chesterfield also uses anastrophe in contradicting his points. He uses anastrophe as an understa...