Concision and Repetition in Babel's Collected Stories

Turkle is able to appeal to the readers emotions in her essay by telling stories and using strong

Throughout the novel, the author Edward Bloor uses literary devices such as similes to make the readers visualize the descriptive situations in the story. These similes describe to the reader how different occurrences relate to other actions, objects, or living things.

Specifically, Vance utilizes the metaphor to describe the tension between his ignorant therapist and himself.While, Vance’s rhetorical strategy also allows for him to identify one of his own experiences as a neglected child to his readers. In this view, Vance’s use of simile depictions assures his ethos; the audience understands more of Vance’s character and confirms his experience as a neglected child.

The film and novel both use words to cause emotions of viewers and readers. An example of the powerful use of words in the film is towards the end when Liesel finds Rudy dying on the road covered with gravel; Rudy is about to say “I love you” (Percival), but doesn’t finish his sentence before death takes him. It’s hard as a viewer to watch such a heart-breaking scene. Liesel knows what Rudy is going to say and his words from then and all he’s said to her in the past influenced her to kiss him.Readers no longer had to imagine any of the events or characters in the novel because it was in front of them on a screen. Unlike the movie, in the novel, Hans Jr tells his father to join the Nazi’s. Hans Jr tells Hans, “You’re either for the fuhrer or against him-and I can see that you’re against him”(105). When Hans Jr and Hans get into an argument about the Nazi

The narrator though an educator, is not very good at verbalizing his emotions. He tends to be the person who keeps everything inside

The use of descriptive language is important for the writer to entertain, persuade and teleport the reader into their work. Descriptive use and imagery allow the reader to experience the setting, sound, taste, and mood as if they can live through it. Which takes us to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Not only does he use exceptional details and imagery throughout the play between the characters, but the way he uses word allows us to put ourselves into the play as if we can feel what they feel. It also allows us to experience and go through the play as if we are in it also. So in this paper, I would like to focus on a few major moments where I believe Shakespeare descriptive language is the strongest.

One often hears the saying, “Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in their shoes.” The way an author uses similes can help the reader better understand how the character feel and what they're going through like Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. Esther Greenwood, a college student, working at a month long job as a guest editor for a fashion magazine feels like an outcast from the rest of the girls; she doesn't seem to fit in. When she arrives back home, she receives several bad news leads her into thinking suicide is the best thing to do. After multiple failed attempts, she is put into a mental hospital where she will gain hope in life and finally discover who she really is. In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, there are several instances in which the author uses similes to illustrate a more detailed image/description to better portray how the main character felt during her New York job, her suicide attempts, and at her stay at the mental institution.

Using figurative language helps create imagery and enhances the imagination of the readers. The use of personification allows the author to give human like characteristics to non-living things. An example within the story that displayed intense emotion was included this quote,“This set formula, spoken in a kind of lilt, would awaken loud echoes in Tzili’s soul, and their reverberations spread throughout her body” (Appelfeld, p. 275). By adding in this literary device the readers can foreshadow Tzili’s growth throughout the story and how she realizes who she is as an individual and matures into a strong and independent

Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the

While reading chapter five two literary devices were also present, simile and irony. Simile was used in the

Babel is a film about communication. There are four main storylines, which involved four countries and five languages. However, the director used a rifle to link up the four stories together aptly, which makes it a coherent movie. The first storyline was about the married American couple, Richard and Susan. They travelled to Morocco, but Susan was shot during the journey. Another storyline was about the two brothers lived in Morocco, and one of them unintentionally shot Susan. The third storyline was about the Mexican woman, Amelia. She was the baby-sitter of the Richard family. And finally, the last one is about a deaf Japanese girl, Chieko. Chieko desperately want to be loved and to be cared. However, she seriously

Thomas C. Foster utilizes various allusions and forms of symbolism to apply a multifaceted meaning or message to any piece of literature. In “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” Foster theorizes how an author can assist a reader in getting a better grip on the message or purpose of a work using figurative language including symbolism, tones, allusions, and techniques. The chapters “…Or the Bible”, “It’s Never Just Heart Disease”, and “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion” all demonstrate how Foster’s theories can be applied to the way authors have written and will continue to write.

She uses similes in the essay like this one to help the audience to not give up on something so easily “the man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label.” This simile is effective because it helps form an image

Metaphors greatly portray Lee’s individual style. The author uses many metaphors, the most noticeable being the comparison between sweetness, sadness, song, wisdom, and joy. His use of metaphors strengthens his abstract style. In “The Weight of Sweetness” Lee writes, “Song, wisdom, sadness, joy: sweetness equals three of any of these gravities” (2-3). His use of metaphors impacts his abstract style because there is not a concrete answer and is open to interpretation, the quote shows that sweetness is not one concrete thing but a mix of these things.

The power of language holds great significance not only in Shakespearean study but of our daily lives as well. Every nuance Shakespeare creates leaves a clue to a greater truth or understanding of our humanity. Exploring the works of Shakespeare with this in mind allows for audiences to gain more appreciation and awareness of the depth of language and communication through his dialogue and characters as Shakespeare: “asks us to adorn the actor with our thoughts and ‘carry them here and there, jumping o’er the times’” (Bevington xiii).