Examples Of King Figurative Language

One of the literary devices King used in his writing is metaphor. For example, in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, he says, "Let us all hope that the dark clouds

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 passage, “Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie explains to the readers the life of an Indian and how he defeats and tries to help others defeat the stereotype of an Indian. As a kid, Sherman Alexie dealt with stereotypes about reading and writing based upon the values of his tribe; however, he taught himself how to read from Superman comic books. Throughout the text, he uses figurative language, and quotes that mean way more that what they look like when you read them. One quote that really stood out was, “ I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds.

In chapter one of the novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the author incorporates figurative language to develop the characters and the setting. The first example that portrays figurative language is, “The walls are cracked and water runs upon them in thin threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.” This example uses a metaphor to compare the water on the walls to glistening blood. In return, the readers can get a visual of the rooms setting and what the walls look like. Another example from chapter one is, “Their hair was white and their faces were cracked as the clay of a dry river bed.”

Thesis: King brilliantly applies rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos and ethos that are crucial in successfully influencing detractors of his philosophical views on civil disobedience.

One example in which King uses such elements is early in the book. King writes, “Mary Karr presents her childhood in an almost unbroken panorama. Mine is a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees …. the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you”(17). In the first sentence, King is describing the delightful grasp Mary Karr has on her childhood. He depicts her memory as an “unbroken panorama” which creates the image of a beautiful, wide view. The figurative language here is successful in expressing the totality of Mary Karr’s memoir, which King uses to differentiate his memory with.

effective because it allows the reader to envision the workspace. “Grammar is not just a pain in

William Shakespeare, a genius of his time and author of Romeo and Juliet, created conflicting ideas between true love and courtly love throughout his play. He defines true love as clear and simple, and courtly love as complex and not legitimate. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses figurative language to show the contrast between true and courtly love.

Stephen claims that during his first grade years, he spent 9 months in bed due to the measles. He explains how he visited the doctors more than a few times having to get his ears and throat treated on. On page 26, he illustrates how the throat doctor examined him. “The throat doctor donned an interesting gadget that went around his fierce light that shone out of it like a third eye.” This sentence includes 3 literary elements. King uses a simile to compare the gadget to a third eye. Alliteration is also a literary element used in his memory at the doctors. He tells us that the “doctor donned.” The third literary element is imagery. He goes into depth on how the doctor examined

This is an example of imagery which King uses to express his view of early television. He saw it as an incredible little box that offered visual entertainment much like a book offers entertainment. The vivid description paints a picture in your head of his TV and the things he watched. To him it was a whole new world, and he shares tat feeling with his readers using this imagery.

The famous philosopher Plato once said, “You can discover more about a person with an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” But dialogue and figurative language can help the reader understand people, and their surroundings. An hour of play can’t share their deepest secrets and their emotions to bring your fate's together. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the dialogue of her characters and the descriptive language she uses helps show the mood and helps inference more about the book.

By using abstract words to describe these long-suffering patients, Mayes’ forces dramatic images into the reader’s mind.

To set the mood in this piece, King describes where he is writing his work and calls it his “far-seeing place,”(103). He says that he is writing this chapter at his desk down in his well lit basement in the winter, and this place is his sanctum away from the stresses of life. By writing about his current setting in his sanctuary, King showed that he was just like any one of us. King reads books as a release from life’s frustrations.

In Chief Seattle oration, he attempts to convince Governor Isaac Stevens and the white people that they should be treated fairly despite their condition... Through the use of rhetorical devices like organization, figurative language, tone, and diction, Chief Seattle implies that though they are small, they are not powerless.

At last part of speech, he also talked about his dream. He hopes one day their black children can be friend with white children. They have freedom and equal as the white people. Everybody can live together peacefully. Although they are from different nation, race and religion. For example by the texts below,