I walked outside and it was hot vs. I took a leap outside into the sun that blazed down on me it felt like I was wearing millions of winter coats. Which one help you visualize which is happening better? The book I'm reading which is "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld used a lot of figurative language throughout this story. For an example on page 238 it states, "it just felt flat, like a song she'd heard to many time." By using a simile it helped me understand what she meant by flat. If that simile wasn't there I could of though it meant deflated or flat like a pancake. To add on, using figurative language makes the book more clear and it allows the book to continue with a flow. As you can see, the book I chose to read "Uglies" contains figurative…
2. Personification- “the house jumped” pg. 3- the house did not really jump, but it’s to show description. It caught fire really fast.…
|“The explosion of |First person narrative |Metaphor: compares idea of violent |●Science concept used for disaster |McEwan uses this image of a violent explosion to compare the balloon incident with |…
The author also employs the use of figurative language a couple of times, for example when portraying the image of scrubbing the floors on their knees the author uses a metaphor to emphasize their point. "So here I am on my knees, working my way around like some fanatical penitent crawling through the stations of the cross,..." (Page 311) Furthermore there is the…
During Old School, author Tobias Wolff uses metaphors to make some parts of the book more enthralling. For example, Wolff says things like “Cigarette smoke curled from her nostrils.” (Wolff, Page 65). In this sentence, Wolff adds fluent adjectives to make the sentence more vivid. In this quote, he adds the adjective “curled” to describe the cigarette smoke. By adding these adjectives to the sentence, he makes them more expressive. Another great example of Metaphorical usage is when our protagonist is talking about the presidents and says that Nixon is “a straight arrow and a scold.” (Wolff, Page 3) This…
In my opinion, I believe “Fire and Brimstone” would not be an effective or viable option for today's society to convert to Christianity. The sermon “Fire and Brimstone” used the concept of fear and figurative language to encourage people to convert to Christianity. Here are some examples it says in the story that we are like a spider that God loathsomely holds over the pits of hell. Another example says God's wrath is like a loaded bow pointed at our heart waiting to be released; if so, we would be drunk on our blood. These are just some of the vivid images he paints in the mind throughout the sermon, and these accounts of figurative language worked great in the 1730s through the 1740s.…
Fire! (lines 4-5) This shows how bad the fire was and how scared the people were. They exaggerate the happenings to get more emotion and reactions to get the reader more attached to the poem.…
Throughout the story, a few metaphors and similes were used in order to create and establish a comparison between certain objectives. Within this simile, “With that she leaped straight up into the air and was gone like a bird, flying over field and wood.” (57), the storyteller is…
Irving Layton uses metaphor in his essay. 'books have become objects of curiosity; like an atomic pile, something heard about but never seen'(p145) This sentence lets people relate with the point that author is trying to get across to the reader. The reader now has a mental reference or link to what is being described so he can now better understand what he is reading. This stylistic device is used effectively in this essay.…
Figurative language is used in the meanings of words are not literal and literary devices are appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing. This poem is one of those poems that catches your eye, and so…
In particular, the influence of figurative language can be demonstrated by the various forms found in Night, such as “He seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning” (Wiesel 54). In this expression, Elie Wiesel applies a simile to help the reader make the connection between his father’s reaction after being beaten to an old tree being struck by lightning-a slow, delayed reaction followed by destruction. This language also describes to the reader how Wiesel’s father is able to endure the entire Holocaust experience until he is beaten, and then he begins to crumble; similar to how a tree can withstand the rain and thunder, but a beam of lightning can smoothly destroy it. The execution of such influential words as a means to articulate an underlying abstract meaning helps to accommodate authors in manifesting a specific…
In the poem “Nighttime Fires” the speaker of the poem is remembering the speaker father’s wild obsession with burning houses at night and how the speaker had to go with the father to these burning houses with the family. The father is a casualty of the rough economy and this anger toward his bad luck is the reason he loves seeing these macabre scenes. The speaker in “Nighttime Fires” vividly illustrates the lasting impression that the fires and his father’s fascination with them, had on his childhood and the relationship with the father.…
Figurative language is seen throughout Staples’s essay. In the following quote ‘Her flight made me feel like an accomplice in tyranny” the author uses a simile (1). By using like or as, Brent Staples…
Figurative language was used by Margaret Atwood, through the persona of Offred, to illustrate The Handmaid’s Tale. Figurative Language consists of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole and idioms.…
It is using symbolism, simile,…