Syphons The Souls Analysis

First and foremost, Willa Cather and Mary Austin both employ beautiful imagery in their writings to recreate the landscape of the story they are telling, which heightens the understanding and appreciation for their writings. Their use of imagery is specific to appealing to their audience’s visual senses. In My Antonia, for example, Willa Cather describes the landscape at a particular moment by saying, “One afternoon we were having our reading lessons on the warm, grassy bank where the badger lived. It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a shiver of coming winter in the air. I had seen ice on the little horsepond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found tall asparagus, with its red berries, lying on the ground, a mass of slimy green” (Cather 29). My Antonia has these descriptive passages throughout it, which enables the reader to feel part of the book. Likewise, Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain also utilizes imagery: Mary Austin says, “the mountains are steep and the rains are heavy, the pool is

"He had…split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut across his temple and plowed through a thick canopy of kinky hair…" Imagery is very effectively used by Knight in order to illustrate Hard Rock and incidents in the poem. Phrases such as "bored a hole in his head," "handcuffed and chained," "the jewel of a myth," and "barked in his face," paint vivid images in the readers mind. Knight's use of imagery keeps the reader interested in the poem while slowly drawing the reader into the story (emotionally). This element ultimately proves to be very useful to convey the motif of the poem.

Eighner is relating to the reader something that others can easily link to and can imagine. He also uses imagery by recounting the way he goes down into the dumpster, the way he reacts to fire ants, and when he describes his dog, Lizbeth. He does a well job with his imagery.

Imagery plays a big part in the success of a novel. Different writers have different styles. The good thing about imagery is it makes room for the reader to put things together. The reader is allowed to interpret the story the way that they like. "Ragged Dick", Horatio Alger, Jr. did a great thing with imagery. While reading the novel readers had a change to envision many things that were mentioned in each chapter. Algar interconnected the appearances of the main character to his living arrangement. He also connected these things with the character's attitude.

In this short story Katherine Brush uses literary devices to not only give the reader an image of the scenario, but also to give them a deeper feel and understanding of the current situation. Brush uses imagery, alliteration, and atmosphere to give her story a deeper meaning. She uses imagery to place an image in the readers mind, to allow them to form the detailed scenario in their heads as they read. For example, Brush writes "...in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center.

Imagery is utilized in literature to appeal to the reader’s senses and to paint a picture in their imagination. Poets use the images they create to help the reader interpret their writing. For instance, in Psalm 104 descriptive language is used throughout to praise the beauty of earth as god created. The poem opens by praising the greatness of the lord and continues into: “Who coverest thyself with as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain / Who layeth the beams of his chambers into the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot” (Lines 2-3). In these lines the poet is explaining how god created the natural world.

Dahl also uses imagery throughout “Lamb to the Slaughter.” An example of imagery is when Dahl describes in depth how Mary murdered her husband, “Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his

“My voice is caught between the woman’s screams and the walls coming closer… My bad thoughts are about Ellis… Ellis. Are my thoughts really that bad?” (Pg. 90-92) This is not only an example of imagery, but also a clear example of how psychological abuse can be used to manipulate and control people, which affects the individual being abused, as they could lose their identity, and the abuser themselves could slowly become more dependent on using abuse as a tool. As the novel has two first person narrators the imagery is highly effective, as the reader feels the character’s emotions, because it’s described in vivid detail. Overall, imagery is a powerful tool for conveying ideas and it had a significant influence on how the audience perceived the various forms of abuse in the novel.

How can one single person make a difference in the world? It seems impossible that a single person can make a difference in such a large world but it happens all the time. In history, many people have made very notable influences in the the way we live today. They have indeed changed the world forever. Literature illustrates this very same principle time and time again. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, for example, Brutus is burdened with two choices: stay loyal to Caesar or join Cassius’s conspiracy. Brutus eventually decides on joining Cassius because he sees it as the healthier alternative for the Roman Republic. He murders Caesar with the group and the repercussion is brutal. Antigone in the play by Sophocles makes the choice of following divine law over civil law, deciding to bury her brother Polyneices’ corpse rather than letting his soul fester in

Imagery is a visually descriptive language or a figurative language that is used in the novel to build crystal-clear pictures in which helping the readers imagine and understand obviously what exactly the author is trying to passage his or her words. Atwood uses this language technique to let the readers know what the narrator sees in front of her eyes. In the novel, Offred describes her limited room and surrounding during the shining day. She explains that:

Imagery is visually descriptive, or figurative language in literary work. A clear example of imagery is shown in the story “The Veldt”. "Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odour at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland. The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden waterhole, the great Rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds, the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky. The shadow flickered on George Hadley's upturn sweating face.” This quote gives you such description that you can picture and almost feel and see what the character is experiencing. Imagery is a strong literary device which receives the author's descriptions into

Imagery is repeatedly used throughout this poem. This is particularly evident when the appearance of the dead soldiers is described. The narrator sees an old man after lifting

To start off, she use the technique of imagery extremely well. Dillard was able to successfully convey her through this technique by being able to paint a clear picture of what is going on throughout the entire story. Dillard states, “He chased us silently over picket fences through thorny hedges, between houses around garbage cans, and around streets.” As seen in the story, the use of imagery showed the environment and struggles she went through. Dillard also states, “A perfect ice ball, from perfectly white snow, perfectly spherical, and squeezed perfectly translucent…” This imagery again describes exactly how everything looked and felt during that moment. The use of imagery is very critical in this story

The authors use the same type of figurative language in all three stories. “Sleepy Hollow”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker”, all three use imagery. The use of imagery is used throughout the stories to comprehend the setting, mood, and to get across the personality of the characters.

Another example of imagery in the story is when the author used it to describe Emily when she ask for poison to the druggist.“still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyes ockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keepers face ought to look”. The author makes emphasis in Emily’s face and eyes meaning that she is lost in her own world and foreshadows that Emily would use the poison for something wrong.