Descriptive Language In The Contender By Robert Lipsyte

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.

“Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's” Stephen King once said. By an author using descriptive language a picture can be envisioned by a reader to help understand the meaning of the story, setting, mood, theme and much more. In the story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter dean Myers, the author uses figurative language and descriptive adjectives to develop the mood and setting.

The context of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones influences different aspects such as language, values and attitudes within the text by using techniques such as figurative language, metaphors, grammatical aspects and structuring, with many more. This creates context for the story and pushes along the true intentions that Silvey wished to portray helping readers understand the story better.

First, Hemingway uses concise words to describe characters and scenery to show a vivid image. Readers can image by themselves through description to analyze characters’ emotions.

In the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, the characters are over exaggerated, to state a clear point that this is not a normal story. The story does not follow a regular story line, but one that Robert Cormier decides is fit in his mind and he over exaggerates it aswell for an effect to state his point that, not every time you disturb the universe something good comes out.

Within Walter Dean Myers story, The Treasure of Lemon Brown, descriptive adjectives and verbs help display mood, provide a visualization for the reader, and shape the setting.


I
think
that
it
contrasts
with
the
bold
and
confident
front
of
the
house,
and
I
think

In the poem ,“America”, Claude McKay uses figurative language and diction to create a dark tone, a powerful empowering tone, and an optimistic tone. The theme of double consciousness of African-Americans is supported in the poem and the poem itself also connects to the purpose of the Harlem Renaissance which was to fight back racial hate and stereotypes with black empowerment.

In Kate Grenville’s bildungsroman, “The Lieutenant”, Grenville uses figurative language to convey various ideas through the landscapes and character behaviours. One such idea presented is the evident secrets and distrust among characters in the novel. Grenville further presents the isolation that people who were suspected to in the late 1700s to early 1800s as well as the issues in the colonisation and slavery of the British Empire.

Linguist Karla Holloway type of people think that black are dum. They don't know anything. I think they are also like us so we have to treat them with a same respect we treat others. Everyone should fight for theirs rights like black women did in this book. We should be proud of those type of people and also support them if you can. If you give a power to right person can make so many good changes in our society and also in our life. Black women truth doesn't matter in 1970’s. Hip-hop has many other things then just dance. They also have differents things like styles etc. Moore writes: I’m a Hip-Hop cheerleader

Throughout the poem, The Race, written by Sharon Olds, Olds conveys meaning to the readers through the use of literary devices. Olds describes how an anxious woman rushes against time to reach her ill father's bedside, in which she utilizes imagery and repetition. Olds chronicles the women's journey through the plane using sense details. Olds states, " I walked down the aisle toward my father.

The contender is about a kid named Alfred who has dropped out of high school because he can’t fit in. His only friend James turned to drugs. So, Alfred started boxing to defend himself. He then gained confidence and learned how to defend himself. He had won his first two fights. He had lost his third fight and decided to give up because the sport wasn’t for him. He then thinks he has enough confidence to fit in and goes back to school. When he goes home his aunt informs him that his friend James broke into a house for drugs and money and that the police were looking for him. She also said that the police will probably find him cause he’s bleeding badly. Alfred goes and finds James and convinces

In the sestina, “Sestina”, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, uses a tone to give the impression of living life to the fullest and seizing the time that is before you. The audience of the author, Swinburne, is to the reader themselves but possibly to those near death as well. It is a rather difficult poem to understand and does use rhyme which is different than a standard sestina. The lexical repetition word choice helps the reader understand the meaning of enjoying and taking advantage of every moment of life; this includes both day time and nighttime as well as your youthful, full of energy, days as well as when you are older, and possibly near death, to always find something in life to concentrate on and enjoy

The contender is a young adult novel written by Robert Lipsyte. In the novel, Alfred brooks is a 17 year-old black high school dropout living in Harlem in the mid 1960s. His best friend, James and a group of gang members attempt to rob Alfred’s work, which is a grocery store; little do they know the store just installed a new alarm system. When they break in they trip the silent alarm. The cops show up and arrest James.

Swift: My descriptive style “gets the job” done just fine and paints a picture for the reader that they otherwise may not have seen. This not only guides them to an issue more gradually but gives the reader time to think and develop their opinions compared to the beliefs being thrown directly at them without time to think in between.