Auto Wreck By Karl Castro

Imagery in No Promises in the Wind No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt is a historical novel based in the time of the stock market crash and the great depression. It features the story about two young brothers, Joey and Josh. They run away from home as Josh is only fifteen and Joey being ten years old, they do not have much knowledge of the world out there. The story mostly centers on the boys learning a great deal about the world and most importantly, themselves.

We often rely on imagery, a literary device that uses vivid descriptions and appeals to the senses, in our storytelling to point out the important facts in our stories. It helps our audience picture the scene and understand the severity of the situation. In my opinion, a well-written scene can be incredibly meaningful and thought-provoking with the help of imagery, sometimes even more so than a photograph. In literature, this is no different. Authors will describe characters and events in great detail when they feel it is important to the story. They will use imagery to point out character traits, themes, symbols, and motifs. A good author paints you a picture so you can imagine the places, colors, expressions, textures, with all the fine details.

In the story "The Chrysanthemums," by John Steinbeck, imagery is important in the development of his characters. The man who drives the wagon and fixes things is a perfect example of imagery. "His worn black suit was wrinkled and spotted with grease. The laughter had disappeared from his face and eyes the moment his laughing voice ceased. His eyes were dark, and they were full of the

Imagery is one of the components that were used by Edwards to make his story more persuasive. As the short story begins, the first sentence was an example of imagery. Edwards wrote when men are on God’s hands and they could fall to hell. “…natural men are held in the hands of God, over the pit of hell…” Knowing that you might fall into hell at any moment should scare you. God decided to save you until he wants to let you fall into an eternity of burning

The theme of loss is portrayed similarly in the two poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Out, out-’. Both of these poems are about the protagonist dealing with physical loss as they both experience an accident. Both Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost manage to mesmerize their audience’s attention, and also sympathize for the protagonists’ misfortune. They do this by the use of many literary techniques which are obvious at times, but some are very subtle, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and contrasts.

German-Canadian Eckhart Tolle once said, “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.” Such a statement is hardly profound, but perhaps it is the key to understanding the narrator’s motivation behind killing his loved one in Carol Ann Duffy’s “Human Interest.” In the poem, an unnamed narrator speaks to the reader from his prison cell, where he is carrying a fifteen-year minimum sentence at for killing his cheating girlfriend. Throughout the short four-stanza poem, he takes us the reader through the how and the why behind the crime, but the most compelling part of “Human Interest” lies in its conclusion, where the narrator completely abandons all indications of anger to reveal raw grief, pain, and perhaps regret: “When I think about her now, I near choke with / with grief” (Duffy 12-13).

In his poem Auto Wreck (p. 1002), Karl Shapiro uses carefully constructed similes to cause the events he relates to become very vivid and also to create the mood for the poem. To describe the aftermath, especially in people's emotions, of an automobile accident, he uses almost exclusively medical or physiological imagery. This keeps the reader focused and allows the similes used to closely relate to the subject of the poem. Three main similes used are arterial blood, tourniquets and cancer. These images all follow the same idea, and thus add more to the poem than other rhetorical figures might.

When Chris Crutcher decides to use imagery it is often very detailed. He takes the time to describe what these characters are seeing and feeling. Chris wants to make sure that the readers can see every situation, feel the weight of every decision, and feel the pain of the characters. Imagery is a very helpful tool to help Chris’ ideas really jump off the page and into your head. Some of these scenes of imagery include a little girl scrubbing off her skin using a brillo pad, and a character's father

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

Aaliah Mubarak Rhetorical Analysis Essay English Composition 101-05 Due: September-5-2014 Rhetorical Analysis of “Losing Bodies” “Losing Bodies” by Susie Orbach is an essay I found to be more effective in its ability to confuse its readers with its argument, than it is to convince them. The negative attributes of this essay: its disorderly placement of evidence for her argument, tendency to deviate significantly from its proposed thesis, the author’s decision to oversimplify the target of her argument and use of logical fallacies, greatly overshadow the more positive attributes of the essay: its effective use of emotional appeal and its method of getting the reader involved in the argument through the use of rhethorical questions.

Tobias Wolff uses imagery in his short story “Bullet in the Brain” provides a visual portrait that captures attention. He clarifies in an interview with Sanford University what short stories require, “You want large results from it, and you 're compelled by its very shortness to using all your resources of language, form and understanding” (Schrieberg 1998). He uses language in the story offering instances of imagery to describe the media critic. Anders is portrayed as weary, and elegantly savage in his reviews. In each scene of the story Anders observes and uses biting words to offer his approval or distaste. He uses words to critique events while waiting with the customers at the bank, with the thieves and with the shot starting his recollections. There is a deeper vision into his brain not only with the speeding bullet but incite to words. The use of imagery in the short story provides a distorted image of the character Anders, not the real image of a man with the passion for words and the happiness they create.

The narrator shows imagery. “[Rudy] placed the smiling teddy bear cautiously onto the pilot’s shoulder. The tip of its ear touched his throat. It shows compassion because it was their enemy. Rudy just wanted to help the pilot even though he was going to die. The narrator uses another example of imagery. “[Max and Liesel] hugged and cried and fell to the floor. The reader can imagine that Liesel was surprised, that Max came in to the tailor shop. It was Max showing that he cared enough about Liesel to come back and see her. As the reader can see Zusak’s usage of imagery.

When reading a novel I often get engaged by the amount of detail the author includes. I find myself most interested when I can picture myself in the character's shoes and feel like i'm in the novel myself. This kind of feeling is caused by imagery. Imagery is defined as the use of vivid figurative language to represent objects, actions or ideas. Authors tend to use imagery to create a “mental image” in the audience's head. This is often done with the use of your senses. Incorporating details about touch,taste, or smell often gives the audience a specific idea of what the author is trying to portray. Imagery is important in all literature but was especially prominent during the romantic era. Edgar allan poe was a poet of the Romantic era who relied strongly on imagery to portray his emotion. Poe had a difficult upbringing and

Throughout the poem, the speaker uses a reverent tone to communicate the sacredness of the places mentioned. His understanding of the situation filters through the calmness of the scene and is exhibited through neutral word choice. The most descriptive words are only used at the beginning. “Fidgeted,” “shrank,” and “serious” build up an intense mood, which dissipates when the mention of a car as a sacred place steps in. While other hiding places and rooms are mentioned, the car keeps coming back as a savior, the thing that frees the