Figurative Language In 'Her Nose As A Connoisseur'

In the story Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan the narrator use figurative languages to communicate a cringeworth experience during the Christmas Eve dinner that alter her perspective of her family’s heritage by recognizing her shame was trigger by other people’s feelings more than her own. The speaker expresses her nervousness before the Prime Minister’s family joins them for dinner. The author unveils her pessimistic thoughts with “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?” The use of repetition intensifies her stress on how the Prime Minister’s family will judge her indecent family upon his family’s arrival to the Chinese Christmas dinner.

Through searching inside the haze one will find their true self. In the book “The Ravishing of Lol Stein” by Marguerite Duras, the main character, Lol Stein, goes through a journey to express her true personality. In the passage, Lol has an affair with the narrator, Jack Hold, which shows her transition as a person the most. Her internal transition into becoming an entirely different person is highlighted by the author’s use of repetition, diction, symbolism, and dialogue.

Do you know what is in the food that you are fueling your body with? Eating locally grown food or growing your own food allows you to know exactly what is in your food and where it is coming from. Award winning author Barbara Kingsolver ditched her urban life full of pesticides and GMOs, and uprooted her family to a farm where they were going to eat all home or locally grown food for a year. The Kingsolver family documented this one-year food journey in their non-fiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver wants to educate, persuade, and inspire her readers to live healthier lives by first forcing them to question the food they are consuming. She uses allusion, figurative language, and rhetorical questioning

Parents cling to their children wanting them to stay young forever, wanting endless memories and nothing to change, yet they must be able to part from these feelings to allow the child to grow. In the story “A Private Talk with Holly”, the author, Henry Felsen, uses symbolism to convey the central idea that if you love someone you have to let them go. When Holly, the main character of the story, talks to her Dad about changing her plans, he is faced with a difficult decision, but in the end he allows Holly to chase her dreams for her own good.

>>>>Coelho uses a simile in the sentence; "The Alchemist fell as silent as the desert" (Coelho 142). Coelho gives a sense of comparison between the absence of the alchemist's voice and the silence of the desert.

Harry Hume’s short story “The Cough” uses figurative language to show that the father works as a miner and as a result is getting sick but cannot stop working as his job is the only thing keeping the family afloat. The diction used in this micro story illustrates how the father’s job as a miner seeps into every part of their life. The personification of the cough sets out to illustrate the father’s illness not as something evil or destructive, but simply as a nuisance. The symbolism of the Orrery demonstrates how the author views their father’s sickness as the core of his world, responsible for making their lives function. Hume’s is able to show an entire family’s state and story in a few paragraphs by using carefully selected words and literary devices to make the reader infer the information rather than say it explicitly.

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.

Betsy Byars is commonly known for writing memoirs in American Literature. She uses detailed sentences with imagery, mood, repetition, structure, hyperboles, and personification to grab the reader. Her style of writing memoirs makes her stories unforgettable and appealing. In the memoir, “The Moon & I,” Betsy Byars incorporates figurative language in order to piece the memoir together.

Throughout the novel, the author’s diction and description of the setting and atmosphere creates a vivid image of the story’s landscape. For example, when the author states, “ … Eyes collared in cups of grime and deeply sunk. Like an animal inside a skull looking out the eyeholes”(63). This excerpt from the text displays the author’s use of higher level of vocabulary makes the reading more entertaining and captivating for the reader while also giving a tangible description of the character. Furthermore, the author’s use of an analogy in this quote makes the true image described in the quote more clear by giving the reader a simple picture to compare to the

Katherine Mansfield writes about an aged woman, Miss Brill, who isolates her existence from the real world. Miss Brill attempts to build a fantasy life to protect her emotions from the harsh facts of her existence. The short story “Miss Brill” offers thorough description and examples of imagery to help readers better comprehend and view occurrences. Robert Peltier mentions how “Miss Brill” maintains a rising and falling action in each paragraph to demonstrate a scene-by-scene picture to the reader. In his overview of “Miss Brill”, each paragraph fits her on a specific day and moment. Mandel Miriam explains how “Miss Brill” contains more figurative language rather than actions. In particular, “Miss Brill” depends generally on images of sense and sound, but the senses of taste and

Kesey makes sure the reader gets a mental picture of the situations but he also makes use of many literary terms. The most common literary term used, that is present at least twice in every page of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is simile, where a comparison is made between two seemingly unfamiliar things. An example of a simile is present when Bromden describes one of the prostitutes: “Her fingernails are red as drops of blood against the shiny black patent-leather purse” (172). The author makes use of onomatopoeia when the Chief narrates: “He pulls the cigarette from his thin crack of a smile, and the laugh starts up again—eee-eee-eee” (62). Kesey also makes use of a metaphor when Harding says: “Mr. McMurphy… my friend.. I’m not a chicken, I’m a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world.” (62), implying that all of the patients are, indeed, rabbits. “Our sweet, smiling, tender angel of mercy”(58) is an ironic kenning referring to Miss Ratched. There also are a series of flashbacks throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that

Conway achieves the writer's duty because she was able to write her memoirs based on events in her life that were meaningful, such as overcoming trials after the death of her father and brother. She also used figurative language,symbolism and parallelism to explain and connect different parts of her life. Conway uses a form of figurative language called a metaphor to speak about the Warsaw Ghetto, that is experiencing death and famine (pg. 183). Parallelism is used to show her connection with education and liberation. Conway found herself in school and learning, thus it made her feel free. Though Conway had a troubled childhood stricken with the death of her father & brother, had to care for her mother after her health declined, and other

She takes in every word he says and joylessly laughs and smiles over every remark. The author uses gustatory imagery when saying she “drinks” in his words with “eager lips” as if she can taste every word. Red is the color of passion and lust, which is exactly the color she “paints her mouth”. The reader not only gets an image of a couple all dressed up with nowhere to go, but the author’s metaphor compares her to an actual painting. Like art the value of the woman has been based off objective beauty and not substance. Both her and her lover know their parts. He, like an actor to an audience “rehearse his loves to her” She in turn, pretends to be amused. She has fooled him into thinking that her take on life is light hearted, joyful, and not at all morbid. She knows that simulating happiness is much more appealing. She wishes that she could articulate her “staring eyes of nights,” but her and this man are not close enough for that. The man shares imagery of “fresh adventures” while she must conceal her inner thoughts. She envy’s his ability to travel alone. She longs to share these experiences rather than hear about them second hand. Possibly to stimulate arousal, he tells tales of other lovers along his travels. Her fake reaction of approval pleases him. She mustn’t say how it hurts to be compared to them. She meets the standard of a good girl- always

Of Mice & Men George and Lennie are the best of friends who are truly more like brothers. There are many emotions in Of Mice & Men (1937), but they lean more to the sad side of things. Figurative language, setting, and characterization play a big role in why George ended up doing the right thing. A primary strategy Steinbeck uses to make the reader see the George did the right thing is figurative language. Steinbeck uses a boat load of figurative language in his novel.

Le Guin uses imagery to appeal to the five senses; for example, in the first line she introduces the story as follows: “with a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, […] bright-towered by the sea” (16). She appeals to the auditory sense and the sense of vision by using “a clamor of bells” and “bright-towered by the sea,” respectively, painting vivid images in the reader’s mind. Additionally, she describes “a cheerful faint sweetness of the air” (16). Here, she appeals to the olfactory sense as if the reader can smell the air’s “cheerful faint sweetness”. These pulchritudinous scenes convey that Omelas appears perfect on the outermost layer.