In the story The Cog by Charles E Fritch uses hyperboles and similes to bring the story to life. James Maxwell is sitting on a stage looking at a crowd of people that are looking at him. There is a huge metal spaceship that will be launching soon, and all that he can think about is him himself being on the spaceship heading off to space. One example that the author uses hyperbole to bring the story to life is, “James Maxwell let his gaze wander upward. He stared at the shinning metal spaceship. In less than an hour the crowd would be asked to move back. Then they'd watch with pounding hearts as the powerful rocket roared into the sky James Maxwell could feel his own heart beating faster. Very soon, he knew, the rocket would be knifing through
Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: John Muir added in a simile. In the phrase “I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests
"Spin" chapter rhetorical devices The chapter "Spin" is really cool to read because Tim O'Brien uses flashbacks in the chaptg and goes from one arecdote to the present to amther anecdote, and the stuies don't seem to connect, but he follows his modem train of thought and tells stories wherever the train takes him. O'Brien also uses ethos as a former soldier, and creates pathos through his stories. The most prominent and interesting rhetorical device he uses is verisimilitude. Verisimilitude is when fiction seems realistic, as if the events had actually happened.
In The Cog, Charles E. Fritch expresses James Maxwell’s crushed dreams of seeing the stars using personification, symbolism, and similes. Maxwell is President of the World Republic, and he still feels regret for not choosing his dream, and longing to be an astronaut and fulfill his answer to the call of the stars.
Thurber and Twain use hyperboles to convey conflict. For example, when Uncle Horatio visits, he says, “He said he wasn’t afraid of any dog that ever lived and that he would put the dog’s plate on the floor if we would give it to him,” (261). This shows how he is exaggerating, because it is impossible to not be afraid of every dog that comes your way. This also shows that the dog is frightening to everyone but the owner. An example from Twain’s writing says,
Slavery is a topic very capable of putting an emotional weight on a person. This is even more so for those that have actually experienced it first-hand. Frederick Douglass, one of the more influential African-Americans in history, himself, was once a slave. He experienced everything that comes with being a slave in first-person. All the wickedness, hardships, and mental and physical damage, that came with being a slave, were experienced by him. Frederick is able to experience freedom after taking the step himself and escaping slavery. After what is almost an entire life of slavery, one would expect him to have many thoughts floating in his mind about his new found freedom. In the passage from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass use figures of speech and syntax, and repetition of key phrases to convey his feelings of excitement, insecurity, and loneliness from escaping slavery and arriving in New York in 1838.
(Page 2). This explains to the reader of the story that Jamal had kicked the ball very hard and fast through the air. The ball could be referred to look like a scud missile flying through the air. Morris Glietzman has said like a scud missile because a scud missile travels at high speed. Morris Glietzman uses these similes in accordance with the story to make the reader feel that the object being described in the simile is alive when it maybe non living. Morris Glietzman uses similes in his books to help the reader understand how the object or person is without plainly saying that the ball was flying fast trough the air but like a scud missile.
Not only are the similes potentially overlooked, they also create a bigger problem in deterring readers from finding the more interesting themes, such as truth and loyalty, in the novel. If they skim over the similes, they will most likely skim over some of these important, and interesting, themes. His interactions with
Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet who brought hopefulness to the oppressed during the Harlem Renaissance in his poem, “If We Must Die”. McKay experienced the hardships that colored people were going through because of their race and nationality. He believed that the people should fight for what they believe in, even if it seems like a hopeless cause. McKay uses the concept of dying with dignity to persuade his fellow African-Americans that are being oppressed to fight for what they believe in.
Due to the attention the anti-vaccination movement has received, many researchers have attempted to determine who is participating in the anti-vaccination movement. I am not the first to call for distinctions in children who were not fully-up-to-date (FUTD) on vaccines from those who are. Previous research on vaccination status has considered the children of “non vaccinators” as two distinct groups: undervaccinated and unvaccinated. Unlike selectively-vaccinated children, who intentionally were spared a particular vaccine, in much of this research undervaccinated children are identified as those who have inconsistent access to medical care (Reich 2014). Undervaccinated children are more likely to share particular demographic characteristics such as being below the poverty line, having a mother who is younger, unmarried, and has not attended college (Reich 2014; Smith 2004). This group is perceived to be unable, in most circumstances, to obtain the recommended vaccinations due to a wide variety of external factors. Undervaccinated children, in this sense, have been of particular interest to public health officials as they have attempted to implement programs to remove the cost of vaccines to increase availability (Smith et al. 2008). Undervaccination, like discussed earlier, has been reduced with the enactment of the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program by the United States government (Whitney et al. 2014).
In chapter one of the novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the author incorporates figurative language to develop the characters and the setting. The first example that portrays figurative language is, “The walls are cracked and water runs upon them in thin threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.” This example uses a metaphor to compare the water on the walls to glistening blood. In return, the readers can get a visual of the rooms setting and what the walls look like. Another example from chapter one is, “Their hair was white and their faces were cracked as the clay of a dry river bed.”
Goodwill International is a not-for-profit organization whose main objective is to offer job trainings, employment placements, and other community-based projects to individuals with disabilities. The organization also extends its services to veterans who include people who lack the necessary job experience, education, or face challenges in securing employment. The non-profit organization is financed by a chain of retail thrift stores, which also operate as not-for-profit entities in places where they are situated. Goodwill is constituted by a system of 165 community based independent organizations operating in 15 countries, including the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Panama, and Canada among others. The organization
These short descriptions or stories were to build his persuasion on the reader. The anecdotes he used led
. . can be heard underwater for miles and miles (274)” and “Each [hummingbird] visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backward. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. (273)” are examples of how Brian Doyle uses the factual support, as well as emotional triggers to provide a semblance of deep understanding between the rhetorician and the audience.
Another example of figurative language within “The Scarlet Ibis” that creates a dismal tone can be found when James uses hyperboles to exaggerate his strong feelings.
One often hears the saying, “Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in their shoes.” The way an author uses similes can help the reader better understand how the character feel and what they're going through like Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. Esther Greenwood, a college student, working at a month long job as a guest editor for a fashion magazine feels like an outcast from the rest of the girls; she doesn't seem to fit in. When she arrives back home, she receives several bad news leads her into thinking suicide is the best thing to do. After multiple failed attempts, she is put into a mental hospital where she will gain hope in life and finally discover who she really is. In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, there are several instances in which the author uses similes to illustrate a more detailed image/description to better portray how the main character felt during her New York job, her suicide attempts, and at her stay at the mental institution.