Archetypes In Ray Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'

The motif of light and pureness is magnified numerously to juxtapose the dystopian society. The untainted diction Bradbury maintains exemplifies his perspective of books, for the readers to acknowledge. Not only does he compare books to pigeons, he inserts unsullied words to further epitomize the author’s view of books.

Figurative language is a main component in showcasing the emotions the characters reveal. An example being when the author writes “ The children huddled up to her and breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight.” This portrays the children's emotions with more emphasis and really shows how they watched everything Granny Weatherall did with precision. This type of writing really helps the reader understand what is going on within the characters and their actions. The author also displays figurative language in the way she describes how John would be in the situation of them still being together. She describes him as being more of a child, rather than taking a parent role.

Bradbury’s diction set the foundation of his specific voice by using specialized language even in his short stories to show his effort in helping the reader understand each detail of his writing. He used the vocabulary that depended on the topic and occasion of his stories in order to get the exact mental image for his readers. Bradbury described William Philippus Phelps’ tattoos as, “He looked as if he had dropped and been crushed between the steel rollers of a print press, and come out like an incredible rotogravure” (Bradbury 385). Bradbury’s use of the word” rotogravure” specifies to a specialized language dealing with printing. The importance of his word choice helped the reader to create the image of a massive old printing press. Another example was, “Lavinia looked and the ravine was a dynamo that never stopped running, night or day . . .” (Bradbury 2). In “The Whole Town’s Sleeping”, Bradbury represented the ravine as a “dynamo” to relate a specific occasion in the story where it included

Lit devices for Anthem by Ayn Rand Symbol: A symbol is a thing that represents or stands for something else (google) Example: “ Then we knew. We were in the Uncharted forest. We had not thought of coming here, but our legs had carried our wisdom, and our legs had brought us to the Uncharted forest.”

With the use of asyndeton, polysyndeton, and fragments, Bradbury makes the reader feel as if he or she is Montag struggling throughout parts of the book. For instance, when describing the sounds he heard in the dark from his overdosed wife, Montag narrates that “the breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest

In the story Stop The Sun figurative language is used in this story. First, “It burned into terry’s mind, the picture of his father down on the floor.” When the reader reads this helps them to imagine how tary was feeling by using figurative language to express those feelings. Secondly, Stop The sun states “Terry felt his brain swirl.” Using a type of figurative language called a metaphor, using this the author tried to make the

While reading the book “The Discovery of Poetry” by Frances Mayes, I learned a lot about figurative imagery. Figurative imagery is used throughout Edward Mayes’ poem to make connections between two ideas we typically would not associate with one another. A concrete example of figurative imagery in Mayes’ poem is found in the line that reads, “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals.” I know that these patients most likely had not been attacked by wild animals over and over again, but when the speaker plants these images in a reader’s mind, the suffering that these patients have endured become more realistic to the reader. Sometimes using figurative imagery is much more effective than using a literal image. Mayes wants readers to know how ill some of the patients are. He goes on by describing the “200 miles of scars” of a patient and how “a boy who [had] shot his face off.” Mayes’ figurative images make a stronger point because they are so blunt. He doesn’t seem to beat around the bush; he tells every detail exactly how the speaker saw it.

In the story Dark They Were And Golden Eyed, by Ray Bradbury, a great story that he develops themes of fear, change and symbol and label. The author uses techniques of similes, metaphors and personification that explain and convey them to the reader very powerfully.

Many times in history people have been corrupted with power. In the short story “The Veldt” the author, Ray Bradbury uses many different useful craft moves such as similes, metaphors, and foreshadowing to help make the story feel like there is a bigger meaning to it than it portrays. The craft moves that Ray uses make ¨The Veldt¨ more than just a creepy short story. The story has a room called the nursery, it can turn into whatever the kids want. But the kids have too much power with this room. They end up killing their parents by locking them into the hot, lion infested Africa. Since Bradbury has added these craft moves he has made ¨The Veldt¨ a story that people can debate and talk about what Ray was trying to show in this story. He made the story into something that people can relate to and be interested in.

By using descriptive words and phrases to help us imagine the characters and setting the readers are drawn further into the suspense. Beginning with the descriptions of the carnival, usually a joyous time, it is not so joyous but mostly dark with the vision of “[dusk] one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival

In the beginning of the story, Bradbury creatively incorporates the nature of man in the dialog of characters. One character named McDunn expresses his opinion about man, “While we’ve paraded around with trumpet, lopping off each other’s countries and heads, they have been living beneath the sea twelve miles deep and cold in a time as old as the beard of a comet” (Bradbury). Through this description,

First I will define imagery, followed by metaphors, rhythm, structure and the importance of figurative language. Imagery is associated with mental pictures but it can be more complex than just a picture. “ The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien tells the story of each soldier by simply describing what he carries. Users of vivid description hold the readers interest. (Crossroads, p.23). Another example would be Anton Chekhov in “ Misery”, users of abstract concept in his story such as misery and a society that doesn’t care about an individual’s pain.

In the book Canyons, Gary Paulsen uses figurative language multiple times as a method to construe scenes to the reader in an easily understandable way. To start of with an example of figurative language is when the author writes “They were all over the van like gremlins” this

Figurative language is powerful, and Bradbury is not afraid of a metaphor. He uses an excessive amount to orchestrate

Throughout Ray Bradbury’s work, the common topic appears to be technology and its negatives, warning of how it is slowly and silently consuming the lives of many. Thusly, the mood mustn’t be joyful or encouraging, but rather eerie, mysterious, and unsettling; otherwise, the story’s effect would be tarnished and mismatched. Therefore, one of the most important things writers must take into consideration is how this mood will be communicated subtly throughout the story, as one cannot just state that something is sad or happy, for this would not fully engross the reader. Rather, one of the main ways authors tend to enforce the mood and tone of the story is through diction, one of the main reasons Bradbury’s pieces, such as “The Veldt” or “Marionettes,