A Private Talk With Holly Figurative Language

William Saroyan uses numerous literary devices such as symbolism and characterization throughout his short story, “Gaston”. He uses them to convey that parents have an influence on their children, who look up to them. He includes several details in each instance of the literary devices, to expand on the theme he is trying to convey.

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.

We hear of her moving to New York to escape her life as a child bride after being orphaned at a young age. This story allows the audience to gain a sense of sympathy for Holly, and enhances the pathos of the story. This pathos puts the audience into the shoes of Holly and enables them to understand the reasoning behind her escape. The use of language features like pathos and literary allusion allow the authors of both texts to convey the theme of escapism.

Straight towards the house the wind blew like a flash, whipped open the shutters, and tore off the sash. In The Yearling, winds of this caliber are described by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling is a tale of a young boy named Jody living in central Florida as the only surviving child of his parents. His parents are convinced, by Jody, to let him keep a fawn to a doe his father had recently harvested. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 because of her poetic depiction and description through the utilization of sensory details, figurative language, and syntax for effect.

Few relationships are as deep as those between child and parent. While circumstance and biology can shape the exact nature of the bond, a child’s caretaker is the first to introduce them to the world. And as they grow and begin to branch out, children look to their parents as a model for how to interact with the various new situations. Through allusion, potent imagery, and nostalgic diction, Natasha Trethewey constructs an idolized image of a father guiding their child through life’s challenges only to convey the speaker’s despair when they are faced with their father’s mortality in “Mythmaker.”

In the poem the speaker’s daughter is being mocked by some white children for being Japanese. The speaker then has a flashback to her time living in Slocan. She remembers the time when the other white kids made fun of her and she ran into the forest to hide and at the same time talks about the woodticks that can dig into your scalp. When she reaches deep into the forest, she then listens for the voices of the kids to guide her back onto the path, and she vows to never go near the mountain alone again. Then she flashes forwards back to the present and she reassures her daughter that they do not have woodticks in Saskatoon.

In the novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson uses creative techniques to share the story of Melinda Sordino. The author uses symbolism and foreshadowing to relay the Melinda’s feelings and thoughts throughout the book. Symbolism is visible throughout the story. It is not obvious at first, but it is there. When Melinda chooses a tree to draw the whole year in art, it symbolizes that Melinda is the tree.

Vonnegut makes use of condescending language in order to construct a distraught situation. Throughout the story, “Harrison Bergeron”, the author adheres to diction as a way to express his conception. Often times, he’ll use comprehensible adjectives to describe what’s occurring. For example, when explaining the circumstance where the son was removed from the family, he justifies that, “it was tragic, all right”( Vonnegut 1). Rather than supporting his accusations with phrases, he interprets the situation with a straight to the point approach.

The theme of a story is whatever general idea or insight the entire story reveals. "Harrison Bergeron," is a satirical and dystopian science-fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut and first published in October 1961, is about society changing in 2081. In 2081, everyone one was equal, no one was smarter than anybody else, no one was better looking than anybody else, and nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. This short story mainly revolved around the Bergeron family and their ties to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. The author captivates the readers by using literary devices and figurative language to display the theme total equality is dangerous.

Dylan Penn 6th block English Three Weeks with my Brother essay Three Weeks with my Brother is a work of literary nonfiction. This is due to the authors use of sensory detail, figurative language, and symbols. These three literary techniques allow the reader to better understand the reasons that this book in nonfiction. Three Weeks with my Brother uses an abundance of sensory details.

The similarity between “Suicide Note” and “Awakening” makes both work almost identical, only being differentiated by the outcome of the character's life or death. Although the illustration of the characters depicts the burdens of establishing a personal identity within a society that impairs the formation of an individual's identity, there is a substantial difference between their psychological states, coping methods, deriving in varied resolutions for each author’s struggles,shown by the authors use of theme, figurative language, and tone. The entirety of the poem and song theme depicts a multitude of changes in the character's identity while they try to cope and resolve their struggles of achieving a ‘perfect persona’ set on to them by society.

Henrick Ibsen in the play, “A Doll’s House” implies that deception of marriage derived from secrets can act as a poison that creates isolation and poses as a threat. Ibsen supports his implication by providing examples through figurative language to express the symbolism of the Tarantella dance and its relation to the characters, Nora and Torvald, and their marriage. The author’s purpose is to express Nora’s violent and aggressive movements during the Tarantella dance caused by anxiety and loathe towards Torvald in order to show that the poison has consumed her and she is trying to rid of it.

Award winning book Jeremy; is a delightfully enchanting story about the survival of a baby kookaburra, whom is cared for after falling from his nest. Evidence of precise vocabulary is used in describing “a nest high in the big palm tree in our garden” (Faille, 2014 pg. 1), creating depth and believability in the existence of the setting (Tunnel, 2008). Using figurative language, Jeremy is given human like actions through personification, whom stays up late to watch television (Faille, 2014), a feat unusual for a wild bird. Furthermore personification is again addressed; through an emotional act of a simple goodbye kiss between Jeremy and the human girl (Faille, 2014), outlining the care two characters now share with each other (Tunnell, 2008).

In this quote, alliteration was used by repeating the letter A in constant sound 5 times. This figurative language was used to describes his characterization quality.

In “A Doll’s House” many instances of symbolism and imagery are used throughout the story. Symbolism is the use of one or more objects to or represent, a different or abstract ideas. Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work, which creates a mental picture for the readers mind. Nora spent most of her life as a toy. Her father would be unhappy if she had different opinions from him.