Figurative Language In Every Little Hurricane By Sherman Alexie

Serbian poet, Dejan Stojanovic, once stated, “Devil and God – two sides of the same face.” When looking at Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, there were two sides of Chicago known as the white city and the black city. The white city was the fairgrounds where the World Fair occurred. The black city, however, is the rest of Chicago where the crime, poverty, disease, and filth was represented. Erik Larson constructs the black and white city in Devil in the White City by incorporating figurative language, imagery, and juxtaposition.

The memoir from the story “Always Running” by Luis J. Rodriguez is a tale that talks about how Luis’s lived in segregation, and how he and his brother, who are people of color, were attacked by a group of five white teenagers. He used many examples of syntax, connotation, and imagery. The first example is Connotation. I circled “...his rep as someone who could take a belt whipping, who could take a beating in the neighborhood and still go back risking more- it was this pathetic plea from the pavement I remember” (Rodriguez 10).

How hard would it be to live in a house with parents that beat you if you don’t do chores? Unstoppable is about an orphan boy named Harrison that lives in a very cruel foster home. When people find out that his foster parents, the Constables, are beating and mistreating Harrison, They move him to a new foster home with nice foster parents, the Kellys. Harrison’s new foster dad is the head coach of a football team which was very important to Harrison because his dream is to play professional football in the NFL. Harrison ends up on the team and is immediately unstoppable. But Harrison’s luck can’t last forever.

Introduction The book, The Unwanteds, by Lisa McMann, is an adventurous story about a creative boy named Alex, and his very bland and boring twin brother Aaron. Alex and Aaron are split apart because Alex took the blame for something that Aaron did, and at the Purge, when they were both thirteen years old, Alex was sent to his death, and Aaron was sent to the university of Quill, where he would become a governor. Alex, however lived because of a man named Mr Today, and the secret world of Unwanteds. Aritme was full of talking statues, magical creatures, and lots and lots of colors.

Kate Chopin wrote the short story “The Storm” one of her most bold stories and did not even intention to publish it (Cutter 191). The two main characters in the story are Calixta and Alcee. They both used to be attracted to one another in previous years, but now they are both married to someone else. After Alcee arrives to Calixta’s house looking for shelter they are driven into a passionate moment. In the story “The Storm” the storm has a significant meaning; without it the affair of Calixta and Alcee performed would not have been as powerful as it was between them. “The Storm” has a great deal of symbolism throughout the story: the clouds, the use of color white, the storm relative to the affair, the after effects of the affair, Calixta,

Have you ever wanted to read about the evanescence of life? In Erik Larson’s educating 2003 nonfiction novel Devil in the White City, set in the City of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, he tells the side-by-side story of a striving architect and a twisted serial killer. In his work, Larson uses figurative language, imagery, and juxtaposition to capture the serial killer’s, H.H. Holmes, psychotic nature, and explain how those around him find him to be so enticing.

The author uses figurative language to develop the central idea. As read in the text, “Charleston

Have you ever known a psychopath who finds pleasure of going around and murdering thousands of people? In Erik Larson’s nonfiction novel, A Devil in the White City, published in 2003, he sets the scene around the World’s Fair in Chicago. During this time, the city preoccupies themselves with the new construction and excitement of the fair that it draws away attention from the rather secretive, sly, serial killer, H.H. Holmes. Larson uses figurative language, imagery, and juxtaposition throughout the entire novel to develop just how sinister natured Holmes truly is.

Kate Chopin implies in the selection, "The Storm" that the setting and the plot reinforces each character's action, but only two characters exemplify the title itself, Calixta and Alcee. The storm becomes the central element of Alcee's unrequited love for Calixta and ultimately the instrument of their forbidden love to each other. Hurston concurs in the "The Storm" that a forbidden relationship can become a cancerous love and silent death sentence.

At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, located in the lower 9th ward, the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander

The language used in the story is informal and there is no use of complex syntax or difficult vocabulary - in fact it is quite the opposite. With swearwords like hell and a use of irony and sarcasm between the narrator and Pat, the language and tone causes a sense of a relaxed relationship between the characters and adds a humoristic side to the otherwise almost sad story about EPICAC’s lost love and unrealistic dream.

"Who can lose it and forget it? Who can have it and regret it? Be interposer 'twixt us Twain." Mark Twain absolutely loves word play. Whenever he gets the chance he will use some form of figurative language.

Authors use figurative language like carpenters use nails, a necessary ingredient to achieve an interesting final result. Authors use these craft moves to help the reader to imagine the story and better understand the plot, theme or lesson. Terry, the main character in Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen, is faced with the struggle of confusion and the unknown. Terry’s father fought in the Vietnam War and has vietnam syndrome. Puzzled on why this has happened to him, Terry tries everything to discover why his father is this way. Gary Paulsen focused on multiple craft moves: allusion, flashback, and imagery to help the reader understand and relate to Stop the Sun better.

I was born in a large kingdom we were know as the hurricane because of our power and we feared nothing, we proud and we destroy everything in our way that was the creed of my father, my parents were the King and queen of heavendeal. when I turned five my parents declared war on a neighboring country my parent thought that our army was stronger than there's but when they came there was thousand of them came marching to our walls my parents and whole army left throw the escape tunnels and only five of the army stayed with the people when the other army came they ask for the king and queen one of the army leaders ask why because they kill my son if you don't bring them we will kill everyone in the city now bring them they know they left

A hurricane is a tropical storm that has winds of 74 miles per hour or