There are many ways authors make a story their own, all authors have different styles in order to evoke different reactions in their readers. Looking at my independent reading book, “Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon, the author used figurative language such as imagery to explain to the reader how plain and simple Madeline’s room was with everything being only white. From white walls, white shelves, white desks it tells the readers that she has a very different and tough life than other teenagers because of her disease and that she needs to have everything that color in order to minimize the chances of her getting infected with any type of bacteria. Another way this author made it her story was by using metaphors. She said, “Boys are …show more content…
A story we used was called, “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry 1906. He used a hyperbole, “You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth.” He used this hyperbole to show the reader how shy and timid Jimmy was because he was never able to get out of his comfort zone in New York. While saying this he was comparing Jimmy and himself because Bob was an outgoing person, moved out to the West and became successful. Yet, Jimmy didn’t want to get out of New York so he decided to stay. The term, “he thought it was the only place on earth,” would be the exaggeration part of the quote. Another way O. Henry made the story his own was when he used dialogue. Bob was telling the officer that he was excited to see Jimmy, and even though they were friends, Bob would come out more successful because he had to compete with smart people and the West, “puts a razor-edge on him,” The author used dialogue to show how egotistical Bob was and to show his personality. Although the author also used Bob’s actions to show who he was, he used dialogue to further more his character. On top of that, O. Henry used similes in his writing. He said, “He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together.” The author used this to show the close bond and friendship between the two men. He could’ve just used the words friend but, it was such a close connections that they were considered brothers to each other growing up. It showed how important the two were to each other. In “After Twenty Years,” O. Henry used hyperboles, dialogue and similes to make the story his own. Another read aloud book we used was titled, “ Okay For Now.” The main character Doug, is a typical teenager with a troubled family, in my perspective I believe that the author used tone to enlighten the tension. Doug used a lot of sarcasm in his words so it makes the story a bit funny. The author
Capote opens his narrative by illustrating how Nancy 's bedroom looks. He starts off by using comparison of Nancy 's bedroom by describing it as, "... the smallest, most personal room in the house-girlish, and as frothy as a ballerina 's tutu." The author first uses a simile to describe her bedroom. The way Capote describes the bedroom lets the reader know she was girly. He then uses two parallels, mentioning, "Walls, ceilings, and everything else except a bureau and a writing desk, were pink or blue or white." Capote 's description of the bedroom lets the reader know what colors her room was. The descriptions give the reader more of an understanding of how girly and innocent Nancy was. Capote uses imagery throughout the story to give the audience an understanding of how Nancy 's bedroom was set up. For example, "A cork bulletin board, painted pink, hung above a white started dressing table..." and "The white-and-pink bed, piled with blue pillows..." This
In a lecturer’s head, many illustrations progress through as they read, and benefits these techniques advice form those impressions. The creator is one of the writers who use those very identical concepts to put a bright picture in your perception. I observed that Bradbury favors to using a lot of metaphors when script. The novel asserts “he was all fire”, and “they sat in the middle of an empty dessert” (Bradbury 99). Here I see a couple of metaphors in only one expression.
Writing rhetorically is often a hard task for writers to do, it’s also one of the best ways for the people reading your work to understand visually the message you are trying to describe to them. When writing in general the best thing you can do for the readers of your work is to describe the visual elements for them in a fun and intuitive matter. And Gustavo Arellano the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Became More American Than Apple Pie” did exactly that. His use of different visual elements throughout the story was very well done and added a lot of great qualities to the text itself.
In any book, novel, or short story, imagery, diction, and details help create a certain theme or mood. Imagery can help show a scene in your head, diction can help give you a better idea of what the author is trying to say, and details add more to the story to give a better understanding. In the book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, imagery, diction, and details make up an important part of creating a mysterious mood.
When an author writes a novel he keeps many things in mind. The author will precisely uses word choice, syntax, imagery, and many other literary devices to craft their own piece of art. From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a selected passage can reveal all the feature to his piece of art. From this passage things such as syntax and imagery will be discussed. Fitzgerald crafts his ideas through these literary features for the reader.
Metaphor: A metaphor can enhance and paint a more interesting and a more (vivid?) picture of what your are trying to explain. It easily conveys a message. For example if you say “It was Scary” the reader will not know how scary but if you say “I was so scared I felt like a mouse before a great
In the short story “the Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and the short story “blue + yellow” by Chris Killen compare in many ways. These two stories use the same literary device strongly such as imagery. Imagery is a literary device in which the author uses words and phrases to paint a picture in the readers head throughout the story. These two short stories are written with very descriptive language to help paint a picture of the occurrences in the story and describe a scene. These two stories also contrast in many ways such as the way they use symbolism as well as the relationships between the characters in both stories.
Ellen Hunnicutt once said “. . . figurative language adds pizzazz. It raise work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” This quote explains how using figurative language helps create a more interesting and useful way of expressing a tone of a character or event.Figurative language is a uses of words, phrases, and sentences to help to make the characters and story line come more to live in the reader’s mind. Some examples of Figurative languages are similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and many more. Figurative language help the reader see tone and mood in each of the example of figurative language because the reader can see or image the event or character in their mind. In a story, poem, or any form of writing, figurative language is extremely important to a reader because if a sentence didn’t have figurative language the reader may not find the story or poem interesting or even find it confusing and difficult to understand.In addition the use of figurative language is crucial when an author is writing. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pigman, By Paul Zindel, the authors used Figurative language to develop the tone of their stories so that that the reader can visualize it in their mind.
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 literature, authors use a certain image or collection of images in order to produce a particular effect, eliciting a response from the reader’s senses. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” utilizes the imagery of the train station in order to produce the effect of transition between the characters, both in terms of physical location and emotional mindset. Much like Hemingway, James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” takes a similar approach, using Sonny’s passion for music to expose his deepest insecurities. Though their approaches are different, both authors use imagery to create a pathway to the character’s internal thoughts.
Why do the words that authors use in their writing help set the overall atmosphere of the story? In the story, "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything," a young boy named Willie and his cautious mother, who were abandoned by their father, come across a beggar, and Willie grows curious of his character, thus leading him to question him. After a series of encounters, Willie learns that the homeless man was not what he seemed, but a man of wisdom. In the story, “Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a party of humans arrive in Mars and try to build their new lives there after an apocalypse on the Earth. One of the humans, Harry Bittering, is skeptical about Mars and how living there may not be the best idea. In both “Dark They Were,
In addition to using symbolism, Le Guin writes using vivid imagery to describe the theme of the story. She gives the reader an image of the room the child lives. “It has one locked door, and no window. A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the
Figurative language is one of the literary aspects. For example: ‘’I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?” Another literary example used in the book is the use of syntax. The following quote demonstrates the author’s use of the correct syntax in his writing. “I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.” Lastly, the author explains his point of view very well so that the reader can truly understand the author’s point of view. For example: ‘’Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a
Authors write to be understood and to show others their beliefs. They want to color a picture for you in the words they are writing. John Steinbeck used word choice, parallelism, and foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men in the same way a great artist creates a scene.
Although there are many different literary techniques used in these two pieces imagery is an element that is depicted in the both of them. Imagery is a literary technique that appeals to the senses of its readers. It gives the reader a visual of what the writer is feeling about what he or she is writing. In the poem, “What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl”, by Smith, (1991), imagery is used to display the writers feelings of being black and not necessary proud of being black, “it’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering their burn in silence”. The writer could be using the word blue as a way to depict the wanting to have beautiful blue eyes like many White women as opposed to the dark brown or black eyes that she probably possessed. Imagery is also seen in the way how the writer explains her encounter with the opposite sex. “It’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers”. It is having a man finally paying attention to you but not knowing that he only wants to control your body.