Figurative Language In The Lieutenant By Kate Grenville

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

In the short story "The Ascent", the author, Ron Rash, uses figurative language throughout the story that urges the reader to believe that the the whole story revolves around a theme of being unlucky. First, Ron Rash has added the simile, “A woman was in the passenger seat, her body bent forward like a horseshoe” (Rash 280). For centuries, horseshoes have been associated with luck when they are upright. However when horseshoes are bent over that is associated with luck running out. In the story, the fifth grade protagonist, Jared, is wandering in the woods and stumbles upon an airplane that crashed a week before. When Jared walks in, he sees the dead woman, bent over like a horseshoe, which represents her luck running out. Considering

Power is usually developed on the basis of fear. In the novel, patients longingly wait for an opportunity, where they can escape the authority of Miss Ratched. Unlike others, McMurphy refuses to leave the ward when Harding suggested a plan, with the reason being that he does not want to interrupt Billy’s date and disappoint him. As the party progresses, alcohol and cough medicine catalyse the men into doing things they would not even dare to think about when they are sober. The excitement soon leads to Sefelt’s seizure, which left Sandy in awe while telling others that she had never seen anything like that. Being the one with a clear mind, Harding throws colorful pills onto the pair and warns them on the consequences if Miss Ratched catches them. By describing themselves as sinners and visualizing their potential punishment, fear soon develops. Through the usage of tone, diction, and figurative

In the story Matched by Ally Condie author's craft, such as figurative language, has a big input on the story. Cassia’s grandfather gives her an illegal poem that she has to destroy containing words of rebellion about how “a flood may bear me far,” if she had kept the poem she’d be “riding on a flood that I [Cassia] couldn’t stop… the poems are gone and I [Cassia] can never get them back.” (Condie 123) The figurative language refers back to the quote which adds importance to the story. It adds to the story because it shows how significant the poem is and how dangerous it is for the. The use of the words in the poem added to her fear of being caught makes readers wonder why poems such as the one that has fallen into Cassia’s hands are so dangerous

Diane Chamberlain, the author of Necessary Lies, incorporates figurative language in the form of imagery and anecdotes to evoke certain feelings and perceptions in the reader’s mind. Chamberlain has written this novel using tons of imagery, and this style aids in helping readers visualize certain characters or scenes, essentially building the reader’s imagination. Strongly connected to imagery is descriptive language which in this specific novel, helps create a vivid, realistic description of a certain character or scene. Imagery and descriptive language both stimulate the reader’s senses, further allowing the reader to easily view the thing described through the narrator’s eyes. Chamberlain describes work days in the tobacco farms as when

Poets make books with poems that relate to each other. Marie Howe touches on topics related to herself throughout her book “What the Living Do”. She begins her book by going in the past and narrating events, but the main idea behind majority of the poems are on her brother John Howe, Father, and herself. Her brother John died of an AIDs related illness and her father failing to quit drinking alcohol. Howe is very reminiscent in this book. With the sequence of the poems it appears like a story and she used great figurative language to complement them. Although her language and her meanings in the poems are clear her consistent use of couplet stanza form does not always compliment her material, but her title goes perfectly with the way the

Through the creation of character constructs and use of textual techniques, Ken Kesey demonstrates how the status quo is challenged throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Within this text, Kesey uses a collection of stylistic techniques to establish how the status quo is introduced, challenged, and how it ultimately withstood the rebellion.

The presence of light and dark imagery is a significant motif in the novel Winesburg, Ohio, vital to the understanding of characters’ suppressed identities and the hidden beauty found within all of their seemingly grotesque personas. Throughout the book, darkness is prevalent whenever a character reveals a secret about themselves to George Willard or the reader, and characters regularly walk around at night. Many of the most important experiences occur in the dark, and within these moments, the characters appear their most extraordinary. The juxtaposition of light and dark portrays the contrast between the characters’ authentic identities and the pretenses they express to society.

The Book Thief was a well-written book. Zusak used many elements of figurative language to help portray his story. He uses imagery to paint a picture in the audience’s brain. It helps us understand the story better. He does not only use imagery; he uses many more figurative language.

The ruthlessness that harbors party attendees’ appeasement also transcends to the fear that the townspeople and partygoers have towards Anthony’s total control. The reader can find the Bixby’s portrayal of fear of Anthony in the absence of the details and in Anthony’s presentation. Indeed, nothing Bixby could come up with is as chilling to the reader as the details and images that will appear, summoned, from the depths of their imaginations. When Anthony “thought Dan Hollis into something like nothing anyone would have believed possible…thought the thing into a grave, deep, deep in the cornfield” (Bixby, 446) — the resemblance of a banishment to GULAG or Nazi concentration camp should be remarked (Spender, 219), but the reader is not sure of the specific implications, but one understands the terror by the partygoers’ response and Anthony’s purple gaze (implying an imperial or

Historical fictions have become a way for modern readers to connect with a time long since gone, in a format that stirs their passion for the romanticized depictions created on the pages. Hayden White notes that, “historical discourse wages everything on the true, while fictional discourse is interested in the real—which it approaches by way of an effort to fill out the domain of the possible or imaginable” (White 147). This essay will articulate an analysis of the narrative structure of Maxine Shore’s The Captive Princess, along with the character development of the protagonist Princess Gwladys Ruffyd, the antagonist, the Holy Roman Emperor Claudius, and the motivations behind some of their more notable characteristics.

Most poems, new and old, almost always have an important message to teach to all those who take the time to read it. Authors use poetic devices to get their message across in creative, yet effective ways. For example, Mary Oliver carefully uses several poetic devices to teach her own personal message to her readers. Oliver’s use of the poem’s organization, diction, figurative language, and title aids in conveying the message of how small, yet vital oxygen is to all living and nonliving things in her poem, “Oxygen.”

Strange Meeting and Journey’s End both share similar aspects. Both the texts are set in the First World War and depict in depth what it would be like to be a soldier at the time as well as displaying the endless strife that the soldiers had to endure for four long years. In Journeys End, Sheriff portrays many different emotions through the central character ‘Captain Stanhope’ and similarly in Strange Meeting, Susan Hill does the same with ‘John Hilliard’. In this essay I will compare and contrast the way that both these central characters are presented in the texts.

In this passage of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the reader obtains a very in depth description of what the Walls Family home in Welch is like once they move in. The author is this text is conveying how poor of a state their new home is. Walls uses the literary element figurative language to reveal the state of their home to the reader.

In the novel The Help, author Kathryn Stockett uses figurative language to develop Skeeter’s character, and demonstrate her relationship with her coloured maid Constantine. After Constantine confides in Skeeter and reveals an element of her past, she sings a childhood song. After years disconnected from one another, Skeeter reminisces the conversation with Constantine and explains, “If chocolate was a sound, it would’ve been Constantine’s voice singing. If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate” (Stockett, 78). In this metaphor Skeeter compares Constantine’s voice to chocolate, meaning her voice is incredibly beautiful.