Examples Of Figurative Language In The Treasure Of Lemon Brown

The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” is a story that tells the tale of how Greg Ridley is having a bad day. His grades are low, and he is going to be kicked off the basketball team by his dad because of his latest math grade. Things start to turn when Greg stumbles upon the abandoned tenement that Old Man Lemon Brown lives in. In there, he learns an important lesson that will change him forever. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author, Walter Dean Myers, expresses the theme that everyone has their niche, or how Lemon Brown calls it, a ‘Treasure’ and the lesson to not judge a book by it’s cover. This theme connects to main character Greg Ridley, who is having trouble with

Randy Wilkerson, a young boy, walked the cold streets of New York on a school night after dinner. He stumbled upon an old woman with a beautiful old ring. After time went on, the old woman told Randy the back story of just how significant that ring was to her and her life. Randy, a lot like Greg Ridley, understood the importance of his life after hearing a back story from Lemon Brown’s perspective. In the story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” Walter Dean Myers, the author, establishes the theme by showing readers that what's important to someone, isn't something that has to do with money.

Name: Campbell Bearden Class: 2&3 Embedded Assessment: Literary Analysis Power… how did such a good thing give people such a bad reputation? Power is dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Those in power, always have the possibility of abusing it.

Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a genius piece of literature that stands out from the others. Following its publishing date in September of 1987, it was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction only a year later. This novel holds an abundance of literary merit for numerous reasons but the main one being that it combines the powerful forces of history and literature into a pure work of art. Not only does this book display vivid historical accuracy in the perspective of a slave during the Reconstruction era in the United States, but the language that explains this particular situation is rich in figurative language and challenges readers line by line.

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.

Everyone falls in love, or at least strives to. Some people say, “I love you more than anything in the world...” which is a bit of a hyperbole. However in Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, the author uses figurative language to show that Matthias truly loves Nina more than anything. She fills him with a sense of happiness, because knowing he made her life better is enough to fulfil him.

In the realistic fiction story, "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers, Greg Ridley a fourteen-year-old boy, starts off by getting a lecture from his dad, about his poor grades in math. Greg is upset and he walks away from his house to get some alone time. As Greg is walking, a rainstorm strikes. While he is trying to find shelter, he comes upon an abandoned apartment complex. As Greg walks in he finds out that he isn't the only one in the apartment, an old man named Lemon Brown is also there. Lemon is there for a different reason though. He is trying to hide his treasure, an old harmonica, from the neighborhood thugs. The thugs weren't successful in getting Lemon's treasure. Greg returns home with a valuable lesson learned, that he should value things in life. Greg changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. At the beginning, Greg was careless about his grades in math. Next, he was curious when looking for a place to hide from the rain. Lastly, he ends the story off by being a caring person when he continuously asked Lemon Brown if he was okay. Greg Ridley was a dynamic character who changed from careless, to curious, to caring, after his encounters with Lemon Brown.

The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Migration Photograph, by José Hernández-Claire both represent the subject of family separation. The authors of these two texts use different and similar techniques to help portray the subject.

Why does this title have a peculiar title to it and what is it about? The short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” by Walter Dean Myers, is about a young boy named Greg Ridley who really struggles with school. At the time he was fourteen and failed his math class. His father would always give him lectures about how failing in school is not okay and in turn isn't aloud to play basketball. One day he got so mad that he ran away and ended up in some old run-down building with graffiti all over it. Greg has four big coming of age moments all throughout this story. Coming of age moments are big moments that happen in life. His first big moments is failing his first math class.

In Tangerine part 2, (November 10) the theme is that hard work leads to success. The book shows many literary elements to support this theme. Paul and his soccer team showed them being resilient till the end. On page 194, it shows great use of imagery and figurative language, it says, “When I pulled them back on they were smeared with blood,”. Which is an example that Paul gave it his 100%. In addition to, it states on page 191, “Tino, who was closing in on the Lake Windsor fullback with murder in his eyes,”, Also, it says on page 188, “flattened that Gino kid’s but,”. These two examples show how the author is exaggerating and is using figurative language to describe more in detail of what is happening. The symbolism of this book is Paul’s

In the novel, Tangerine, one major theme is that, “Sometimes, a change can happen in new settings.” By way of example, the soccer ball at Paul’s new school, Tangerine Middle School, represents equality. As stated on page 94, Paul said, “Mom, you ruined my life at Lake Windsor Middle when you turned in that IEP. This is your chance to un-ruin it!... Football season and soccer season happen at the same time, Dad.

In the story The Book Thief, the author Markus Zusak does and amazing job of using literary devices in his story. From metaphors, to similes, to personification and even onomonopeias. It puts images in your mind that in other looks you could not even imagine. It shows and tells what the person is doing and how they are doing it. These literary devices bring excitement and engagement to the writing. It makes you want to keep reading the book. His forms of figurative language come easy to zusak.

In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”, The author Walter Dean Myers uses dialogue to develop characters. An example of this would be, when Greg and Lemon Brown have the following conversation. “Sweet lemon? Greg asked. “Yessir. Sweet Lemon Brown. They used to say I sung blues so sweet..” Through this piece of dialogue, the reader learns something totally new about Lemon Brown. Prior to getting this information, the reader can assume that Lemon Brown hasn’t done much with his life. But when the reader learns that he was a blues singer, it can be a shock. This new information helps add more meaning to the story. Lemon Brown has obviously had some kind of decline, that brought him to where he was present day. The next bit of dialogue used to develop characters is: “You don’t give up the blues; they give you up. After a while you do good for yourself, and it ain’t nothin but foolishness singing about how hard you got it.” This dialogue helped reveal even more about Lemon’s past. The reader realizes that Lemon Brown has had a tough life. The blues was something that he absolutely loved, and he couldn’t do it anymore. Something bad must have happened, and eventually it must have been too much. The blues seemed to be his life, and he had to give it all up. This makes the reader feel sympathy for Lemon Brown. The final piece of evidence is: “There it be. He said, nodding his head.” Throughout the entire story, Lemon Brown talks in a strange way. He doesn’t have the best grammar, and it seems like he slurs his words. Lemon really doesn’t have a good range of vocabulary either. In that example of dialogue he said “There it be..”, which is obviously not grammatically correct. This insinuates that Lemon Brown is uneducated. It really makes his situation even more upsetting. He’s an

Being passionate is a characteristic one may hope to never lose. In the excerpt from South of Broad, the author uses figurative language to develop the central idea. For example, “There is a tastefulness in its gentility that comes from the knowledge that Charleston is a permanent dimple in the understated skyline, while the rest of us are only visitors” (lines 39-41). Here the author uses imagery to show that as the people come and go, the exquisite town will always be there. Throughout the excerpt, South of Broad, by Pat Conroy, figurative language is used to develop the central idea of being able to connect and love something that others find small.

In this passage of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the reader obtains a very in depth description of what the Walls Family home in Welch is like once they move in. The author is this text is conveying how poor of a state their new home is. Walls uses the literary element figurative language to reveal the state of their home to the reader.