Examples Of Similes In The Veldt

One example of this is when Bradbury talks about how lonely the streets are when the main character is walking, “The streets were silent and long and empty with only his shadow moving like the shadow of the hawk in midcountry” (“Pedestrian 98”). It really lets the reader soak in the setting and let the reader feel what the main character is feeling. Another form of imagery in the text is when Bradbury talks about the houses and how they look. “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unlike walking in a graveyard where only the faint glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (“Pedestrian 96”). This quote is letting the reader know about the street being empty and dark with no one to be seen. One more example is when a cop car pulls up to the character, the car asked him to get in and then describes the inside of the car “He put his hand on to the door and peered into the back seat, which was like a little cell, a little black jail with bars. It smelled of riveted steel. It smells of harsh antiseptic, it smelled to clean and hard metallic. There was nothing safe there” (“Pedestrian 100”). This quote describes the unsettling feeling of the police car and the smell of the metal and

In “A River Runs Through It,” similes are used constantly. They usually relate a person or object to an animal or living entity. For one example, Maclean uses a simile to compare life’s

For example, Bradbury writes “He would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” The simile used does a great job showing the reader the setting of this scene in the “The Pedestrian”. In this scene a man is walking down the sidewalk kicking up ash-like dust. When the reader sees the image of that man, the reader gets the sense of a content and tranquil situation.

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

To begin with, Bradbury utilizes word choice to communicate the setting to his audience. After establishing the peaceful operations of the house with words such as “warm”, “gently”, and “soft”, Bradbury all of a sudden uses words such as “rubble”, “ashes”, and “ruined” (Bradbury 1). The contrast between the light-hearted and the desolate diction gives the impression that though the house may seem calm, something terrible

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells a story about the utopian future where the government controls human identity. In that society there is no place for free thoughts. Those who read are outlawed and sometimes killed. On the first pages of the novel, Juan Jimenez wrote a striking quote:” If they give you ruled paper write the other way”, and that quote pretty much shows the author’s attitude toward public pressure, censorship and oppression. It unquestionably can be stated that without knowledge there is no freedom, books- are the only answer to the demise of the oppressor.

In the beginning of the novel, Ray Bradbury focuses on figurative language to convey his theme. Throughout the first part, Bradbury uses many forms of figurative language such similes, metaphors, and irony. One example of figurative language is on page 56, with the quote “there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given a new job, as custodians of our peace of mind.” (Bradbury 56). This quote is a metaphor because it compares the new job

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. An example of foreshadowing Wiesel exercises is when he uses Moshie the Beadle to introduce the kind of person he was before and after his experience in a labor camp. Moshie’s suffering foreshadows his and his family’s outcome. Moshie had managed to escape and return to Sighet

In his poem, Flames and Dangling Wire, the first line immediately sets the scene allowing us to have a sense of where we are. The use of a simile in “The smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread and dragged to smudge” implies the filthiness of the tip and the smoke rising from the fires. This also causes the air to

The literary technique of foreshadowing is employed by many authors to add a suspenseful tension to a novel, or to help explain later events. Additionally, diction and imagery can be employed to provide more sensory involvement to help draw in the reader, and provide more tangibility to the story. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles’ inimical diction and imagery foreshadow certain aspects of the novel, and characterize Gene’s adult character.

In Kurt Vonnegut’s story 2BRO2B he uses foreshadowing to show the readers what is to come. For example, the song that a hospital orderly walked down the hall singing foreshadows what is to come in the text and how their world works. When the audience first read the song, they didn’t really understand the meaning behind it, but later in the text we find out that it refers to their life and how it works. The song said “I’ll go see a girl in purple” which refers to the gas chamber hostess who works for the Federal Bureau of Termination. The song later says, “I’ll get off this old planet, Let some sweet baby have my place” which refers to the way they all live life. For every baby born, someone must give their life or one must be taken in order for that baby to live. This all together foreshadows what we will find out later when Wehling has to take three lives for his three new born babies.

The story, Fahrenheit 451, has many similes that shows the tone of the author. The story states, "He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic light." Montag says this quote this quote and is comparing the empty parlor and the ocean. The story shows a judgmental to technology and the American society. The simile in the story was, "The night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a  buried mine.(Bradbury 77) The story compares the empty pill bottle and a buried mine. The story shows a frighten to the empty pill bottle.

     In his ninth story, 'The Locusts';, Ray Bradbury uses similies to envoke a response from the reader. He makes the many rockets that are landing on Mars to be just like locusts, swarming over a concentrated area and destroying it. 'And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night.'; The reader sees from the similies that the rockets were overwhelming to the Martians and they were only pests, they did not help.

In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson give the following definition: “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another” (5). An obvious focal point of Metaphors We Live By, and the idea this essay will attempt to further explicate, is the notion that the title implies: we live by certain dominant metaphors.

In Lakeoff and Johnson’s book Metaphors We Live By, they claim that, “if we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor” (3). They mean that much of what we do in everyday life we compare using metaphors, and sometimes it is done without us even noticing. It is so true. When doing a free write to talk about a reading experience, metaphors were being used without the writer trying to use them. We subconsciously put them in our papers to try and describe things better. Metaphors play a huge part in our lives, and we use them without realizing it when we try to explain something to someone. I am sure there are even metaphors in this paper I have used without trying to. We were assigned to come up with two metaphors, one for academic reading and one for nonacademic reading, and then explain how they are linked.