To Kill A Mockingbird Figurative Language

The greatest symbolism that the reader finds in the novel is Esch’s body. Esch is the

In "Thou Bland Mans Mark", by Sir Philip, he uses poetic devices such as alliteration, repetition, and symbolism to show how he feels about desire. The speaker of this poem thinks that desire is the "band of evils,"therefore the speaker thinks desire is the beginning of evil. He expresses "with price of a mangled mind". Desire can take over your mind and destroy it. Using a repetition of vain, he tries to get his point across about the awful things of desire. We should not desire things and take what we have in vain. Vain can ruin our thoughts. Symbolism is seen when he speaks about the "blind man." the term "blind man" is also used as an example to the bible. This shows that you can be 'blind' and get led into the sin of desire. Tn the end

Prose appeals to ethos in this essay by appealing to the reader as a mother, educator, and student. By writing from the perspective of both a student and educator, Prose shows how both are affected by assigned literature. By discussing her own two sons, she appeals to readers who are mothers by expressing her concern about their education.

Part I: Multiple Choice – Choose the best answer to each question. 1. “I know when I was coming out of the coma all sorts of thoughts and memories swirled through my head like crazy, almost as if I could feel someone emptying my mind, sucking them out.” Which figurative language best represents the above quote? A. Simile B. Personification C. Hyperbole D. Imagery

In Sylvia Plath’s “Sow”, a narrator describes a Brobdingnagian female pig. The language of the poem repeatedly emphasizes the sheer size of the sow, the narrator and neighbor’s perceptions, and the reader’s perceptions. Although the language in Plath’s “Sow” presents the sow as enormous in the reader’s, neighbor’s, and narrator’s perception, it actually symbolizes the sow as both a gigantic pig and a mythological creature. It cannot be denied that the poem’s language reflects the neighbor’s and narrator’s perception and consequently determines the reader’s. In line 2, the sow is described as “great”, suggesting its sheer vastness.

Word choice is the first 6 + 1 Writing Trait of focus. The author’s choice of words demonstrates mastery of meaning in his/her choice of vocabulary as suited to the subject. The meaning is easy to understand throughout a passage because it is appropriate to the topic even though it may be slightly challenging. The quality of words is such that it enhances the flow and enjoyment of the passage.

Holy Sonnet 14 presents the struggle between following one’s faith and the alluring baseness of the human experience. This work fixates on the ties the speaker has to Satan, and the inability to break those ties without God’s intervention. A vein of nearly mad desperation courses through the poem from submissive start to subjugated end, culminating in a pained, almost violent plea for God to ravish him. One can see how the speaker’s desolation builds; he longs for God to break him down and repair him, raise him up and “make [him] new” in the first quatrain, but by the final couplet he embraces imprisonment, razing and ravishing. He believes himself unworthy of deliverance in such a far fallen state, requiring trial and punishment before he can again live in the lord’s light.

In To Kill a Mockingbird different language and writing techniques are used to explore all kinds of themes. The book is most famous for it’s inclusion of racism while also including other things like; morality and ethics and family. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird has become quite a famous book in modern American literature. It follows six year-old Maycomb County resident Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch and older brother Jem on their adventures growing up in this racist, family based, farmer’s town. It incorporates Scout’s sense of innocence, while also giving Jem a sense of innocence, you can see that the pair do, unfortunately start to lose their child hood innocence. ‘”... I peeked at Jem: his hands were white

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, during chapters seventeen through twenty-one, one of the leading characters, Atticus, has to defend a black man in a court case against two white people. Before the jury is sent to make their decision, Atticus gives a closing argument speech. During his speech, Atticus uses three main types of persuasion called: ethos, pathos, and logos.

These stanzas mark the beginning of the crude sarcasm the author uses throughout Lady Lazarus. Plath dares her enemy to "Peel off the napkin." Although she is speaking to one distinct person in the poem, this is an invitation to everyone who wants to observe her with all the awe and disgust this performance inspires. She does, though, mention later that there is a charge to watch her, as if she were a freak show. To the enemy and to those who are willing to watch, she asks the rhetorical question, "Do I terrify?" We know as the reader, the audience, that the answer is yes. Most of us are terrified by such a sight, by suicide. She also wants us to look at her face especially, which she had characterized as the victim earlier: "The nose, the eye

"Lady Lazarus," the last of the October poems, presents Plath as the victim with her aggression turned towards "her male victimizer (33)." Lady Lazarus arises from Herr Doktor's ovens as a new being, her own incarnation, "the victim taking on the powers of the victimizers and drumming herself into uses that are her own" (33). Linda Bundtzen also sees the poem as "an allegory

Within the last century or so, much of the critical interpretation on Dante’s Divine Comedy has been part of what is sometimes called symbolic literature. Symbolistic literature usually contains superimposed ideas conceive by the writer’s imagination, which is based on a collection of religious and culturally opinionated ideas that the poet used to fashion the story but does not literally invent. The poet’s view of the world is skewed by the time in which they live, the way they were brought up, and in part by cultural idealisms. Because of this, interpretation of Dante’s book is restricted to a select group of critics and interpreters. Interpretation of symbolic literature aims to reveal the true meaning behind the text, which is usually extremely difficult to translate as we can only guess what the author really indented to mean. This difficulty of translation is compounded by the fact that the Devine Comedy has been translated from Italian to English, Italian being a rather out-of-the-way language when compared to English. This all being said, it is almost impossible to derive exact interpretation of what Dante meant and why he may have put characters where he put them.

foreshadows that there will be some brightness amidst this "tale of human frailty and sorrow."

Donne contrasts ‘poetry’ and ‘desire’ with ‘verse’ and ‘fire’ to present parameters which display the vexed relationship between the rhetoric and the erotic. The rhyming couplets which hold this ‘desire’ and ‘fire’ metaphorically evoke both the sexual and the rhetorical. This erotic relationship is evident through Sappho’s physical description: the ‘holy fire’ is one of eternity, which cannot ‘decay’ within her heart. Ignited by eroticism, it is this fire that fuels ‘mind’s creatures’, a personification of thoughts, reflecting Sappho’s uncontrollable desire caused by the magnificence of her lover. Similar to the way Shakespeare scorns his female lover in favour of his male love in his collection of sonnets (1-…), Donne also depicts how his protagonist, Sappho, dismisses Phao disdainfully in favour of her relationship with Philaenis. Thus, both poets seem to respect metonymic sex instead of metaphoric intercourse. The ‘old poetic fire’ continues to enflame Sappho’s new desire. This is reiterated through Donne’s patterning, through his imagery of a candle. It is this which presents Sappho’s heart not with an image of her lover, but with ‘wax’, surrounded by ‘fire’, ignited by the passion of a woman.

Phallic symbols are vital in the poem proving that he worries those he holds close to him will leave him. He uses these symbols to represent