Figurative Language In Dark Speech

Paul Bogard is is an author who published "Let There Be Dark". In this text, he goes on to speak about the importance that darkness has in the world. Throughout many crowded, busy places in the world that keep lights on have an effect of damaging the darkness. The author's purpose for this piece of writing is to address the problems with having the lights on while it is dark out. The way he gets through with this purpose is by using figurative language and very sophisticated diction.

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” Within Brave New World, a totalitarian government in a utopian world is depicted by a handful of hatchery directors that condition each of their creations and divide them into groups amongst one another based on qualities in order to establish an idealistic stable community depicting the theme of power. Aldous Huxley illustrates social and political worldly conflicts within a newfound society to ridicule the behavior of other upon him and the strictness of his living environment during the 1930’s and surroundings by using figurative language, tone, and detail.

Paulo Coelho once said “Don't waste your time on explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” The quote said by Paul Coelho connects to the story as a mood of a life lesson within the main character (narrator) that goes through major struggles throughout their life of trying to keep their mother satisfied with their actions. The mood shows how each thing changes throughout time and more. In the story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan, the author uses figurative language and descriptive language to develop the mood of the story.

“Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written.

Moses then found out that he was a Israelite. Pharaoh was going to kill him but he ran away from Egypt into the desert to find a tribe in the place called Midian. Moses stayed there in Midian and became a shepherd and married the daughter of the Priest of Midian. God had started to notice the suffering of the Israelites. One day while Moses was doing his job out in the field he saw a bush that had flames but wasn’t burning. Then God called out to him and said to him that he must go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of their slavery. Moses tries to say no but God commands him to go so the next morning he goes of to Egypt with his

“The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.” (ESV Prov. 17:23). Man will take anything if it can result in something positive. In the novel, Heart of Darkness, leaving civilization can lead to depravity, furthermore creating corruption amongst the company in the Congo. Throughout the novel, depravity is a key element in people and the company, constructing exploitation. In Conrad’s novel, he uses the literary elements of figurative language, symbolism, and Biblical allusions to demonstrate the theme of human depravity when removed from civilization.

In the Bible many characters overcame problems while playing a big role in history, one of them was Moses. He was an important person who had many feats, but also suffered in the Bible. While being the man who led the Israelites out of slavery, he was hurt and disliked by many people for a purpose; to spread his religion.

Back in Jesus’ time, Jews controlled the Gentiles; back in Moses’ time, Egyptians controlled the Israelites. Jesus and Moses understood the suffrage of the people, determine to bring God’s message towards people. Moses noticed how Egyptians treated the Israelites like slaves and viciously attacked them like animals. With perseverance, Moses asked Pharaoh to let God’s people go, but instead, Pharaoh refused; as a result, the Egyptians suffered through God’s “wonderful wonders” [or plagues]. After leading the Israelites out of Egypt and guiding them through the Red Sea, Moses’ legacy brought a community to serve God.

Figurative languages are words or phrases throughout the story that are meant to be interpreted beyond its literal meaning to create a deeper feeling of the story or poem. Many authors use figurative language to create and develop the mood, or how the author feels during the story. Walt Whitman, author of “O Captain! My Captain!”, uses figurative language, such as metaphor and imagery, to create a solemn mood.

We can know when to speak in tongues and when to seal our lips, when to submit to authority and when to stand on the truth, when to dance and when to weep, when to expound and when to remain quiet. Yea, we can know how to pray for our hurting brothers and sisters in Christ, and we can know when to speak reproof, and when to speak comfort.

Heart of Darkness is an impressionistic piece. Impressionism is a theory and practice in literature that emphasizes immediate aspects of objects or actions without attention to details. Heart of Darkness is driven by the big picture more than it is driven by details. Information is often given second hand from sources of unknown reliability, and details are often blurred.

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”.

While Moses always has some level of faith in God, his spirituality grows immensely over the course of his life. When Moses first sees God in the burning bush on Mt. Horeb, he “hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.” The action of hiding his face shows that Moses initially has at least some faith in God. However, his faith and devotion are not yet at the level they will come to be. When God first tells Moses that he is to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses responds “but suppose they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” This moment of doubt shows that Moses is not yet fully devoted to

In T.S Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” the speaker illustrates the loss of identity and the absence of substance within the hollow men due to the depletion of faith in religion following World War I.

As many people say, past events shape you. Whether these events are positive or negative, this affects how you live your life, act, and help other people. This was exactly the case in the story of Moses shown in the movie, The Prince of Egypt. Moses had a very rough past, being put in the basket with the possibility of being killed really set everything up for him. When he was taken in by Pharaoh's daughter, he was just a few months old, so he really didn’t understand what was going on. As he grew older, he started to get confused about his past, and who it really was that he was with. However, Moses was able to overcome all of this, and really show the qualities of a hero. In this movie, the notion of a hero was shown through Moses from when he was a child until when he actually got to be a leader. His uncomfortable childhood helped contribute to these qualities with all of his mistakes and confusions really teaching him, and also when Moses got to lead the Israelites into safety these qualities really shined through.