Examples Of Joan To A Fruit Fly Sylvia Plath

1. Personification: “The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: 'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.”' (Coelho, 2) In this quote, personification is shown because the lake is able to stay silent or weep. These are qualities of a human given to an object.

Throughout the novel, the author Edward Bloor uses literary devices such as similes to make the readers visualize the descriptive situations in the story. These similes describe to the reader how different occurrences relate to other actions, objects, or living things.

“ ‘Cheer up my friend, the game’s not over. You can still win. I hope you do. ’Those were the last words Sandy had said to her” (Raskin pg.185). The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is about a game that if you win, you get 200 million dollars. This book is filled with mystery and adventure. The Westing Game movie is more exciting than the book and is also filled with mystery. The Westing Game book and movie contain many similarities and differences that are worth 200 million dollars.

Using figurative language helps create imagery and enhances the imagination of the readers. The use of personification allows the author to give human like characteristics to non-living things. An example within the story that displayed intense emotion was included this quote,“This set formula, spoken in a kind of lilt, would awaken loud echoes in Tzili’s soul, and their reverberations spread throughout her body” (Appelfeld, p. 275). By adding in this literary device the readers can foreshadow Tzili’s growth throughout the story and how she realizes who she is as an individual and matures into a strong and independent

Reading literature allows people to imagine, create, and believe certain things that reality or other written works are not capable of. The same way writers create their literature is the same way readers interpret it. Both readers and writers use imagination to do so. Literature opens a world where every thought/thing is brought to life. In literature, any person, place, or thing could possibly mean more than its’ literal meaning. When writers do so, he or she uses a literacy device called symbolism. Symbolism is when the author uses objects to represent a certain idea, an idea that is beyond its’ actual meaning. In Robert Olen Butler’s “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” and “The Paring Knife” by Michael Oppenheimer, the authors

1) Personification. "The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said, 'I weep for Narcissus.'" (Coelho page #2) This is personification because it compares a lake, an object, to a grieving human. This is showcased by the lake's ability to both weep and speak.

One the techniques she uses is figurative language. By using similes, there are comparisons between two objects or situations that bring her story to life for the audience in a way for them to easily understand. In “On Compassion”, Ascher is able to produce and portray the tone she wants with the use of similes. For example, the author uses the phrase “Like a bridegroom waiting at the altar, his eyes pierce the white veil.” This refers to when the mother offers him a dollar and instead of accepting it,t he continues to stare at the baby with the white blanket over its head causing the mother to become frightened of what the man could do to her child. By using this simile, she is able to create a feeling of hostility and imagery. With this phrase, the audience is able to

Influenza is among the most prevalent infectious airborne viral diseases that affect the respiratory system. According to the World Health Organization (2016), the infection majorly affects the throat, nose, and the bronchi, and on rare occasions, it may affect the lungs. Also commonly known as the flu, influenza infection is characterized by sneezing, itchy and running nose as well as throat inflammation. The initial signs and symptoms include fever with temperatures higher that 100F, soreness in the back, myalgia, legs and arm muscles, sweats and chills, frontal or retro-orbital headaches, tachycardia, red, watery eyes, and fatigue. Sometimes, a dry and persistent cough, nasal congestion and discharge occur

She uses similes in the essay like this one to help the audience to not give up on something so easily “the man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label.” This simile is effective because it helps form an image

Mr. Cranton is the principal of Lansing High School who believes the girls’ sorority to be “undemocratic” which ultimately “disturb[s] the routine of school work” (241). He is a static, flat, and direct character.

How Sylvia Plath's Life is Reflected in the Poems Daddy, Morning Song, and Lady Lazarus

Essential and effective rhetorical strategies, used repetitively throughout by Plath, was simile and metaphor. With the use of these strategies, the reader was able to sincerely understand the complexity and obscurity of Esther’s mindset. For example, Plath creates a very straightforward statement in the form of a simile to capture Esther’s emotions in that exact moment in time “I felt like a hole in the ground”. This certain sentence was meant to express Esther’s feelings, which during this point of the book, was as if she literally did not exist, as if she was inferior to her surroundings, the largest of holes. Gradually as a reader continues on, it’s apparent Plath constructs similes to match with Esther’s negative feelings, especially on her

What does courage mean to you? What makes someone courageous to you? Do, they have to do something extraordinary or just plain old simple? Well, courage means to me to put other people before and having no limits. In, the dictionary it means the quality of mind and spirit enabling one to meet opposition without fear.

Plath uses similes and metaphors to describe herself as a foot being cowed by a black shoe- her father- in which she barely dares to move. Other very intense similes and metaphors such as "Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belson," and "I think I may well be a Jew" clearly show the feelings of anguish and hopelessness she felt under her father’s control.

Having read many pieces of literature through short stories, it is evident that each story has its own unique use of symbolism. Diverse characters in each work of literature are used to demonstrate these forms of symbolism. The boss and his inner conflict illustrate a great deal of symbolism in “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield. The boss’s perception of the actions of the fly creates an interesting view of the comparison of his father-son, father-fly relationship. Katherine Mansfield, a famous realist, who uses concrete images, appeals to many readers because she incorporates her life into the stories she writes.