Figurative Language In The Pigman By Paul Zindel

In “How to read literature like a professor” by Thomas Foster he explains different literary techniques that writers use when writing a story. Some of these techniques were symbolism, tone, major conflicts, foreshadowing and using certain settings. Even though all of these techniques are important to the story, symbolism is more important because it is used the most throughout the book. Symbolism is the use of people or objects to portray a certain idea or quality of something.

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

2) Krakauer uses figurative language very meticulously throughout the novel to build the theme allure of the wilderness. Since McCandless spends a lot of time in nature beauty, the author uses different types of figurative language to describe the American wilderness. For example, he says "Its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain."(Krakauer : 9). Here the author uses personification to give human traits like "surrender" to non-living objects like "satellites".

Such injustices that happened in the holocaust makes it so difficult to speak of the past, but when one finds a way to convey the horrors effectively, others will be able to understand one's silence as well as the hardships that come living with it. Elie Wiesel used multiple techniques to display the unspeakable, allowing others who chose to stay silent to be heard, and the people who heard their silence to be able to understand it. Furthermore, one can convey the unspeakable by explaining personal memories, displaying visuals and imagery, and comparing different word choices.

Authors use stylistic techniques to convey meaning and to bring richness and clarity to their pieces of writing. In the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” a man named Smiley is cheated out of a bet after he was so confident that he was going to be victorious. In the short story “Cannibalism in the Cars,” a train full of political figures is stopped by a severe snowstorm, preventing them from continuing their journey. In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “Cannibalism in the Cars,” Mark Twain uses imagery, characterization, and foreshadowing in order to aid a reader's understanding of the stories.

The novel “Night”, an autobiography about Elie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust, a genocide that killed millions of Jewish people. In the novel “Night”, Elie Wiesel develops the character Elie through the use of explicit details, emotional language, and powerful diction in order to show that Elie and the Jewish people had discarded their faith in god after feeling neglected throughout the novel.

Have you ever met a man without a reason did you ever catch him blind reading raps while he was killing ‘em?

Please Note: Diction, detail, point of view, organization and syntax are all devices that the author uses to make the tone of the story evident to the reader. Your commentary should

In Thomas Foster’s book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor,” readers learn how to look past the surface of a literary work to find a deeper or hidden meaning. Writers use devices, such as symbolism, imagery, foreshadowing, irony and allusion to reveal these meanings. If these are overlooked, important aspects of the story can be lost. One literary device that Foster emphasizes in his book is allusion. Every story has elements of another story, and Foster devotes Chapters Four through Seven explaining the meaning of allusion in works by Shakespeare, the Bible, and fairy tales.

Many times in a story what the main characters say can reflect their personality and lifestyle. This is shown effectively in the memorial epic by Paul Zindel, The Pigman. Throughout this stunningly truthful story, John and Lorraine consistently say things that show just what type of people they are.

Colorful actions and adjectives are used many times in this story. Examples of this are how the story mentions husks of stories appearing, the places where stories appear like in cereal boxes, and the actions that occur to or by the stories. Another figurative language used in this story is the word story/stories. The repetition helps

A strong essay goes beyond the explicit and makes logical inferences about the psychological and literary elements of the stories

Imagery is used flawlessly in this short story. O’Connor uses descriptive adjectives fairly often to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and to add spice to her

The American author and humorist, Mark Twain, is well known for his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. However, he also wrote a variety of short stories to entertain, and inform his readers. For example, in “How to Tell a Story” Twain opinions on the essential concepts of a well told story, and educates readers on how a story should and should not be told. The same concepts of a humorous story from “How to Tell a Story” are used in the dark tale of the act of cannibalism told from the point of view of a congressman on a snow bound train car. The story “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Twain achieves its humorous effect by including the features of a well told story through diction, syntax, and satire.

The Three Pigs by David Wisener is a unique fairytale in children’s literature that starts out as a typical fairytale but takes a turning point when the main characters, the three little pigs, start using their imaginations to alter the stories outcomes. The story is told from the viewpoint of the three pigs. They begin by saving themselves from the wolf, than travel different adventures that include rescuing a dragon, and defeating the wolf at the end of the tale all by using their imaginations. By incorporating these adventures it leads to a fascinating fairytale that demonstrates composition, style, technique, and visual elements with an emotional impact.