Two Examples Of Figurative Language

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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American lecturer, writer, feminist and publisher who was a leading theorist in women’s rights. Gilman’s childhood was surrounded by poverty due to the fact that her father had left the family and it left the mother to fend for her and her children. Most of the education that she was lucky to receive was limited and irregular, Perkins would go to her town library to study books and novels considering her family couldn’t afford a formal education for her as a child. But, she did attend Rhode Island School of Design so she did receive some form of formal education. As Gilman aged, her writings and essays became more concise and sophisticated compared to when she was a younger woman.

Many different forms of figurative language I used throughout the story to exhilarate the irony. The opening description of Ethan is full of ironic expressions. Figurative language is also used to the describe reactions to events in the story. The author is very descriptive in this short story. The use of figurative language aids in description of events, the setting, mood, and characters’ appearance and response. Edith Wharton, the author, use of literary devices allows the story to come alive and to also require the reader to think deeply about the true meanings.

When I was younger I hated practicing the violin. It would be the longest 45 minutes of my life. But after six years of playing the violin I have become to love practicing and actually look forward to it. What changed? I developed a passion for playing the violin, I wanted to improve my skills and prove to myself that I could become better. FIn pages 147-150 On Writing, Stephen King uses diction, detail, and figurative language to emphasize the importance of reading and the sacrifices needed to become a great writer.

In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” showed that diction and figurative language was used for creating the tone of hope, disappointment, and pride. This story was one with a plot that could have gone anywhere or done anything. This kind of story is the one that needs to be told with good diction and figurative language. In conclusion, this kind of thing creates a great tone that will makes any story an amazing one. The tone is the way the whole story is perceived and what the mood would feel like for the

Every morning, a 71 year-old male stranger accompanies me on my way to school. I only know of his name, but I enjoy his company and chuckle as he comments on my generation’s use of language. Yet once NPR’s linguistic segment of Fresh Air ends, Geoff Nunberg’s witty remarks fade into the abyss. In the quietness of the car, I am left to revel in my own passion for languages: a transformative journey through Spanish and Chinese.

In the poem the speaker’s daughter is being mocked by some white children for being Japanese. The speaker then has a flashback to her time living in Slocan. She remembers the time when the other white kids made fun of her and she ran into the forest to hide and at the same time talks about the woodticks that can dig into your scalp. When she reaches deep into the forest, she then listens for the voices of the kids to guide her back onto the path, and she vows to never go near the mountain alone again. Then she flashes forwards back to the present and she reassures her daughter that they do not have woodticks in Saskatoon.

The speaker did a very good job with his speech. His speech I believe is more informative, because he is describing his recent experience with appendicitis. The area that I liked most about his speech was his introduction. He had a very good hooked that got a lot of people’s attention including my own. He scared me for a moment, because he made everybody believe that he was going to show everybody his appendix that he just had removed from his body. Instead he showed the appendix of a book. Also, as he presented his speech he expressed what happened to him with very personal information. This information helped him establish his credibility. He presented his speech very well and sounded very confident. However, there were a few brief pauses

Have you ever heard the song “Start Over” by Flame featuring NF? In the song it states that no matter what you do in the past or plan to do in the future you have the right to get peace with God and make thing right like they were meant to be the first time. So what the whole song is inferring is that there is always room for a chance to be new or as they say in the song to start over.

1. Figurative Language: As Eric Schlosser is introducing Carl N. Karcher in the opening pages of the novel; he refers to his life as a tale by Horatio Alger, growing from modest upbringings, to establish a fast food empire. This quote uses an allusion to the talented author of Horatio Alger whose works often revolve around working middle class fighting adversity to become wealthy, which is the fulfillment of the American dream. Karcher’s life resembles a real life story that can be illustrated by Alger in one of his works comparing his upscale to greatness by pioneering ideas changing the way Americans eat and live.

Recently, in the news, society has been exposed to the corruption of the judicial system. Americans, being tried for a heinous crime, would often be convicted with lesser sentences rather than the ones seemingly insignificant. In the novel, The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón describes the real world by using imagery and includes vague details in regards to character development, therefore fabricating a mystery. A bookseller’s son, Daniel tries to unravel the disappearance of his favorite author. Around every corner, something in his findings are repeatedly tangling.

Have you ever wondered what the UK would look like in the near-future? How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff is a coming-of- age, war drama set in the countryside of England. This novel is written in first person, Daisy’s view. The novel follows the story of Daisy, who is a teenager living in New York City, in the post-war English countryside. The main themes of How I Live Now is adolescence and all that comes along with adolescence, such as first love, growing up, and moving on to new things. In the novel, How I Live Now, the author uses figurative language, style, and imagery to help draw in the reader.

In the poem above I use the figurative language onomatopoeia , metaphor and hyperbole. I use the onomatopoeia in line 10 when I said crackling fire because fire makes a crackling like sound. I also use hyperbole when I say the two most powerful serial killers this is because they kill anyone in there way. I use rhyme throughout the poem.

Doing a Music Video for the vocab projects successfully helped me achieve my WALT 7.5 because I demonstrated my understanding of figurative language by using the correct parts of speech, the synonyms and antonyms of the words, and context clues for the connotations of words. During the presentation, I said “You say a retentive memory plays back by its own though” here I used an expression to explain what the word retentive means since retentive means to have the ability to recall a memory using the phrase “plays back by its own though” saying you can play back any memory. Another example of this is when I said “All of this fire will purge all of the pure wetness” this also is an example of using figurative language using personification to show what the word meant when I used that line in my song it meant I was doing a “good job” of rapping and using words for the project insinuating that “I’m spitting fire and it will eliminate the water because it will be evaporated”.

Think about this objective. What strategies are you going to use? You will have to remember the types of figurative language we have discussed. Also, you will have to remember how to find the tone of a poem. You will be doing some writing as well.