An Analysis Of Helen Garner 's ' Monkey Grip '

In “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet is inundated in indecision and internal struggles over the virtues and shortfalls of her abilities and the book that she produced. As human beings we associate and sympathize with each other through similar experiences. It is difficult to sympathize with someone when you don’t know where they are coming from and don’t know what they are dealing with. Similar experiences and common bonds are what allow us to extend our sincere appreciation and understanding for another human being’s situation. In this poem an elaborate struggle between pride and shame manifests itself through an extended metaphor in which she equates her book to her own child.

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In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the author uses figurative language to help the reader understand the tone of the story.The figurative language used in this sentence is personification to show how the setting. In this event A boy named Grey Ridley was walking down a street and saw the leafs blowing, “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the papers cars”. In other words this shows us that this street may be dirty, this may not be a good environment, and how bits of paper dancing around is a result of wind so it must be a cold fall weather. In addition later in the story Walter uses personification again to descriptive the mood. Grey and Lemon Brown are in a abandoned house and both of them hear a car pass by, “A car passed, its tires hissing over the wet street and it’s red tails lights glowing in the darkness.” The intention of the author was to help create the intense, creepy, and spooky mood for the reader. In

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

The poets use personification to create a message about nature in the poems "Earth is a Living Thing," by Lucille Clifton "Sleeping

Sonja Livingston is a talented and unique young writer who uses an unusual structure in her work. Structure is the form that an author’s writing takes; how the sentences are formed and how they are placed together to create the work. In Ghostbread, her award-winning novel, Ms. Livingstone uses a freeform chapter structure that, while roughly in chronological order, is not necessarily linear. In chapter 3, Ms. Livingston speaks of her father, “I had no father” (6), and then in chapter 4 she speaks of a childhood friend, “My favorite person should have been Carol Johnson.” (7) Through the course of the book, Ms. Livingston chronicles her life from birth to age 18, but it is not a strict telling; she meanders and explores events as they are remembered, not bound by a rigid timeline. The structure of her work is unconventional and through that unconventional structure she gives the reader an experience that is more like poetry than a conventional novel. Towards the end of Ghostbread, Ms. Livingston contemplates the effect that her miscarriage and the revelation of her sexual activity will have on her relationship with her mother with this passage, “Sex. Pregnancy. Men. What were they to her? Failure? Freedom? Power? Paths she followed, but did not prescribe. At least not aloud.” (212). The use of partial sentences and imagery are elements commonly associated with poetry and it gives

In his essay, Muir describes the Calypso Borealis flower he found one day while exploring. He uses mostly positive connotations and imagery to describe the flower: “I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream… its small white bulb had found a soft nest… and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower.” This description of Calypso flower creates a clear picture for the reader of what the Calypso flower looks like, while still creating a joyful tone. Muir does this by using words and phrases with positive connotations, such as “beautiful,” “soft nest,” and “purity.” These descriptions show how Muir views nature with optimism and joy, and finds beauty in nature. Muir goes on to describe how his meeting with Calypso made a larger impression on him than any meeting with another human, even though he met Calypso forty-five years before writing the essay. Muir uses personification in his description to show how he “met” the Calypso flower. He also repeatedly refers to the flower as “Calypso” throughout the essay, as if the flower is a person named Calypso, which shows how this flower meant as much to him or more than any person. Moreover, Muir is a naturalist writer, and he studied how all living things are connected. When he is

In questioning the value of literary realism, Flannery O'Connor has written, "I am interested in making a good case for distortion because it is the only way to make people see."

What is your opinion on the writing of “imaginative non-fiction”? Does this type of book provide a window that one can use to see a realistic view of an historical event? Or does it create a false view of reality? Discuss and come to an agreement as a

A world open to infinite possibilities is the best experience for a child, and even more when that child as an imagination overflowing. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion wine, the author uses literary terms to contribute white the atmosphere of fantasy. Bradbury employs a series of rhetorical devices at the beginning of the passage to emphasize the first morning of summer and Douglas Spaulding is excited about it. The author uses personification in “at ease in bed”. He uses personification when “the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world.”

Literary devices are used in the poem. For example, “I have guarded my name as people in other times kept their own clipped hair, believing the soul could be scattered if they were careless” uses personification because soul can’t actually be scattered. Another personification used in the poem is “The ordinary thing, and it would

In “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet is awash in indecision and internal conflicts over the merits and shortfalls of her creative abilities and the book that she produced. This elaborate internal struggle between pride and shame is manifested through a painstaking conceit in which she likens her book to her own child.

The next literary device used in this short story is personification. Personification shows in the text, "The trees which were already brown and beginning to tremble with a wintery shave." The passage indicates personification because trees do not tremble. Because of this representation, Maupassant is trying to explain what the season and the surroundings are like as well as its effect on the setting.

The first landscape feature that is described are, “the tops of trees” (Chopin 203). Trees are commonly attributed to nature and the symbol of life. Although the author has attributed the trees in this story with the literary term personification, as the trees, “were all aquiver with the new spring life” (Chopin 203). The author has attributed the trees to movement as the protagonist begins to desire to be in the cycle of nature. The protagonist relates to the trees because the trees are no longer weighed down by the heavy snow, thus allowing the trees to grow again, which is similar to the protagonist, as she is no longer confined by her husband, but she desires to be rebirthed (Lucas). Consequently, the protagonist was learning her desires to participate in life as an independent individual and to have restrictions a memory in the past. Therefore, the protagonist is beginning to participate down the path of becoming

Although both Dickinson and Baudelaire write to motivate readers to appreciate nature, Baudelaire uses personification to convey the symbolism of nature. In, “Correspondances,” Baudelaire begins the poem personifying nature as a temple that can communicate with us. He says, “The pillars of nature’s temple are alive/ and sometimes yield perplexing messages” (1-2). This personification is significant because nature is not talking with us, but figuratively it is telling us something about ourselves that