Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Figurative Language

Symbols in literary works can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Symbols can appear in a novel as an event, action, or object. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author, Zora Neale Hurston, uses the symbols of the gate to show Janie’s transitions to womanhood, independence from oppression, and realization of what love is to Janie.

Visual imagery is often the first step to subconsciously sending the reader into a parallel state of mind as the protagonist, and letting them experience what the characters experienced throughout the story. The visuals used in the beginning of this story convince readers that they have been placed in a safe, secure environment, therefore having a positive effect on readers when they

Another passage in which Elie uses imagery to make the novel come to life is when Elie and his convoy arrive at Buna, another camp. Elie and his convoy were being sent to Buna from Auschwitz. When they arrived at the camp the reader and Elie can see an almost deserted camp, except for a few wandering prisoners. Elie and the others were sent immediately to the showers where the head of the camp meet up with them. “He [is] a stocky man with big shoulders, the neck of a bull, thick lips, and curly hair. He [is] [giving] an impression of kindness” (47), Elie said. The reader can see a big stocky man with curly hair approaching all of the Jews. He has a slight smile on his face as he approaches the Jews who are all waiting by the showers. Imagery is very strong in that passage. Next comes the time during the alert when a man tries to get a extra ration of soup.

When we are still children, running around the playground with our friends, our goals in life and what we want to be when we grow up are much different than later in life. We want to me mermaids, princesses, astronauts. When we get older though our values change. Instead of going after what our heart really wants to do, we go after the jobs that offer the biggest paycheck. Our culture’s minds have been warped and bent towards the desire to have a bigger house, a cooler car, and fancier clothes. We put what we think is right in our minds over what we truly love to do deep down in our hearts. The novel Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, is about a sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who has been given his death sentence. He reconnects with his former student and current sports journalist, Mitch Albom, to try to remold his mind like soft clay to resist the pull of money and fame that today’s society provides. In this story, the author uses descriptive language, figurative language, and repetition for effect, to capture the theme that money will never

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.

"Outside the house, a shadow moved, an autumn wind rose up and faded away. But there was something else in the silence that he heard. It was like a breath exhaled upon the window..." (48) Imagery is very important to authors and especially Ray Bradbury in in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. Ray uses imagery in the story to have us interpret and work for information. Through imagery not only does the reader enjoy the story, they now feel a part of the story to solve the puzzles the author left behind.

It showed how bad he was treated by the Germans and he was treated so poorly that he was on the verge of death. He was in the verge of death no longer able to feel pain of the people he lost he is not able to feel the sadness he use to have and he wasn't scared anymore. He felt like this because he was so close to death and would have made a difference if he died because he had no reason to live anymore and the trauma that he was affected by changed him so much that he lost all of feeling of pain, sadness, and fear. I also think he used this metaphor to show the result of the concentration camps and to show his experience and also to make all readers think a little bit deeper. My second example of figurative language was “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (page 34) this example of figurative language is personification.

Each symbol is used to build a way of foreshadowing the journey from the once overruled society of technology and the lack of independent thought to the rebirth and reflection into a positive human-focused society. There are numerous symbols used in this novel, some tie into each other as well.

The use of imagery allows the reader to picture the long-lasting emotions gripping the narrator. Being a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (myLearning), imagery permits the reader to visualize what the narrator is experiencing. One example of imagery is used in line 5 “I'm stone. I'm flesh.” The narrator is using metaphoric and literal imagery describing his body. The reader can visualize the attempt to harden the body against the onslaught of emotion, and the reflection of the vulnerable flesh body in the granite wall. Another example of imagery can be found in lines 22 through 24 “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky." Here the realistic memories of war involuntarily flash through the narrator’s mind.

Vivid images can be found abundantly throughout the novel and helps to portray scenes to the point where the audience can actually imagine, smell, touch, and hear everything that is going on. “No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking round, as pesty and persistent as a chaperone at a high school dance.” (158). In some instances the audience can acquire a sense, based on the description whether the characters are self absorbed, considerate, or overly concerned about their appearance. “I ought to be shot for looking like this” she’d tell the mirror in the front hall before going out the door. “I look like I’ve been drug through hell backwards,” she would say on and ordinary day. “Like death warmed over. Like something the cat puked up.” (103). The emergence of the images presented in the novel can help present a better understanding and in some cases, a connection to one of the

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born on January 27, 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire. He attended the Richmond Grammar School while contributing prose, poetry and drawings to a series of family magazines. Later, he moved to many different schools. Dodgson also knew mathematics really well. His academic record and mathematical skills won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855. But he continued to publish his works under name, Lewis Carroll. One Of the most famous Carroll’s books is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll also wrote poem “Jabberwocky” in 1871. “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll represents theme of human and natural world. Carroll puts his hero against the beast, and it is essentially an old story of

     I’m thinking that the author’s main use of these symbols probably suggest that she was pushing the theme of the story. That we, the readers, could possibly understand what the whole purpose of this story meant. The symbols were clues into deeper understandings of the story and how

No matter what lifestyle you’re born into you can still be a better person. Some people are born into terrible lives and some lives become worse. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton most of the gang’s lives become worse. The gang faces the other gang and murder takes over gang member’s lives. They face other gang’s and the police. They even face the chance of death and their own families not caring. However, even with all of these issues so to speak, the gang still sticks together and lives their same lifestyle. In The Outsiders the author uses figurative language, both sides of the characters, and a lot of description to show how the characters still push on through tough times.

Such symbols include hands to represent labour, cards to signify chance and taking a risk, and finally, rabbits to suggest ideas about achieving one’s hopes and dreams. Symbols are a key central device in delivering meaning, as they consistently repeated throughout the narrative and are typically associated with the novella’s many characters.

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony.