In the scientific essay, Called Out, Barbara Kingsolver uses personification and alliteration to establish the tone of wonder. For instance, in the essay, Barbara states “Our mountains wore mantles of yellow brittlebush on their rocky shoulders.” The mountains do not actually have shoulders. The author uses personification keep the reader wondering about how beautiful the mountains are. It also gives the mountains human like qualities to give the reader a more real picture of the mountains. Moreover, Barbara Kingsolver also uses alliteration to establish the tone of wonder. In the science essay, Barbara states “Poppies that they looked like the seed packet promises come true.” Barbara constantly uses words that begin with the letter “p”. That
helps the reader get an understanding of the essay and helps the reader memorize that certain line or the message of that line. The reader may wonder what the author saw visually because of the way he emphasizes on using words that begin with the letter “p”. This shows how using poetic devices such as, personification and alliteration, can help strengthen the meaning behind the writing. By using poetic devices, Barbara helped the reader visualize the scene of the mountains and what they had to offer. It also helps show what the author experienced and maybe even the emotion she felt when she was writing the scientific essay.
Throughout the passages, Laurie Halse Anderson establishes the Central Idea through the use of Characteristics and Imagery, revealing that the loudest words are the ones that aren’t spoken.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
A picture tells a thousand words, and "Eleanor" by Eric Drooker says volumes. At first glance, it is a seemingly normal neighborhood, in any city in the world. We see an old woman, at the end of her life, living a meager existence and instantly you conclude that she is lonely and friendless. That is not the picture I choose to see. People assume that once a person becomes older that their life has little meaning or happiness. I see a woman who has everything she wants and needs. She surrounds herself with life, the flowers she grows and nurtures, and her cat. The flowers bring her happiness and perhaps remind her of a garden she once had. They bring color and happiness to her world. They supply her with a touch of nature, something
Although there are many rhetorical strategies incorporated throughout Freakonomics, the most prominently used devices include alliteration, rhetorical questions, and counter arguments. Ethos, pathos, and logos are also used, but to a lesser degree. The authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, use alliteration to keep the attention of the reader. Occasionally, Freakonomics can read more like an encyclopedia than a narrative. In using alliterations, Levitt and Dubner foster a greater interest in the book by making it more comprehensible and enjoyable. For example, the authors use alliteration in a particularly slow section about parenting experts, saying that many experts’ arguments “reek with restraint” (234).
In both “Hungry” and “On Being Educated,” Joy Castro uses “academic” prose through her use of emotional, descriptive, and explanatory words and sentences. It is through her experience and lense that she is able to connect such little things to such major historical occurrences and creations. When telling a story, Castro does not leave it at one short explanation, but she furthers the conversation. Instead of simply stating that when she moved in with her birth father she ate lots of food and bought lots of clothes, Castro chooses to say that she was “devouring tuna, wheat bread, peanut butter, putting on weight, putting on the clothes [her father and his wife] bought for [her] in bulk at the outlet store, since [she’d] run away with nothing”
Piper’s use of imagery in this way gives the opportunity for the reader to experience “first hand” the power of words, and inspires the reader to be free from the fear of writing.
In the essay “Say Everything” written by Emily Nussbaum, the author presents the argument that young people in this generation do not have a sense of privacy and tend to post whatever they like on the internet. She presents 3 different ideas of what happens when young adults are on the internet.
If asked to name one person involved in the fight for social equalities would Susan B. Anthony come to mind? Susan’s passion for social reform began on her family farm in Adams, Massachusetts. On the fifteenth of February in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born to a local cotton mill owner and his wife. She was the second eldest of eight children born to the Quaker family. It was in this Quaker family were her passion for equal rights grew. In the Quaker religion women are treated equal to men before God. According to Sara Ann McGill (2017) author of “Susan B. Anthony”, around age seventeen Anthony’s family moved to Battenville, New York only to lose their home to bankruptcy and move to Rochester,
An example of this is “All begins with A. Adultress. Alpha. Abel. Adam. A. America. The Scarlet Letter” (Lawrence). Lawrence’s blunt syntax stresses the words he uses to describe Hester Prynne. Each word characterizing Hester leaves a greater impact on the reader because of the pounding effect of the short choppy sentences. The quick, sharp, “A” insults that D.H. Lawrence drops on Hester Prynne cause the reader to associate these words with Hester. Each word draws the reader back to the letter “A”— the scarlet “A” for adulteress that is branded across Hester’s chest. It reminds the reader why Hester is being condemned in the first place, and why she cannot be considered a heroine because of it. This also appears in line 19, where Lawrence says, “A. The Scarlet Letter. Adultress! The Great Alpha. Alpha! Adultress! The new Adam and Adama! America! (Lawrence). The syntax is choppy, using alliteration to highlight the words used to describe Hester Prynne. Lawrence stresses the words “Adulteress” and “Alpha” the most in this section. He chooses these words and presents them bluntly because they need little explanation, as they are
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem, “Annabel Lee”, explores the common themes of romance and death found in many of Poe’s works. The poem tells the story of a beautiful young maiden named Annabel Lee who resides by the sea. The maiden and the narrator of the poem are deeply in love, however the maiden falls ill and dies, leaving the narrator without his beloved Annabel Lee. Contrary to what many might expect from a poem by Poe and yet still depressing, the poem ends with the narrator accepting Annabel’s death and remains confident that they will forever be together despite her parting.
Alliteration is shown numerous times in this poem. “To be specific, between the peony and the rose plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes.” (Lines 11-12) Squash and spinach as well as turnips and tomatoes are a few examples of alliteration. Meinke used the device to let the reader know how important it is to have the spinach, squash, turnips, and tomatoes for survival. Survival out weighs the importance of beauty like in a rose or peony. That is why alliteration wasn’t used when writing the beautiful flowers, but was used in the necessary plants to survive.
(H)Humans and nature are often conflicting. (CI) This idea is prevalent in Called Out by Barbara Kingsolver, in My Life as a Bat by Margaret Atwood, and Sea Star by Barbara Hurd. (G1) Humans have a need for answers, unlike nature. (G2) Humans and nature have different needs. (G3) And lastly, humans and nature worry about varying things. (TH) Nature and humans are conflicting because humans are concerned with reasoning, humans and nature have different values, and they carry different burdens.
Sarah Grey’s article discusses Gloria Steinem’s recent statement about women’s involvement in the political sphere. She trivialized women’s ability to make autonomous decisions by implying that they simply follow and replicate men’s decisions. By stating that “the only reason millennial women overwhelmingly support Bernie Sander for the Democratic nomination is that we want to impress men”, she fails to recognize that individual women are capable of making decisions without male influence. Sarah Grey argues that Steinem’s statement is representative of imperial feminism and thus, as white woman of privilege within our political landscape, inherently benefits from the structures of power currently in place. Gloria Steinem advocacy for reformist
Sylvia Plath uses personification to allow both the speaker and the reader to connect with the aspects of nature presented within in the poem. For example, in the lines, “The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool odors./ I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.” (S2. L2-3), Plath uses personification to help the reader further comprehend the separation between humanity and nature, by giving the trees and flowers humanlike qualities. The contrast between nature and humanity is greatly enforced by the use of personification. Another way these two lines use personification is to illustrate how the speaker measures her worth in comparison to nature. The persona describes the trees and flowers as “strewing” their beauty, all the while ignoring her presence. This shows how insignificant the persona feels in comparison to nature. Personification helps
In the midst of a celebrity downfall, one star continues to rise above — and that is none other than Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence never seizes to amaze the crowd and is considered an idol among millions. People all throughout the world admire Jennifer in a great deal of ways. She is known globally as an icon and is constantly praised. She is not your typical uptight celebrity, she is much more unique, quirky, and honest. There are many reasons as to why someone would admire Jennifer. The person I most admire is Jennifer Lawrence because she is not afraid to show that she makes mistakes, she is an exceptional role model, and she does not fall for the pressure of living a celebrity lifestyle.