Figurative Language In Jasper Jones By Craig Silvey

The author uses a lot of imaginary devices. The author uses similes, metaphors, and repetition.

Our aims in this study are to classify the types of figurative speech (metaphors) and analyzing the meaning of those figurative speeches that the author focused in her novel.

Jasper Jones is a novel based Australian mystery and drama filled film directed by Rachel Perkins, which premiered in 2017. The protagonist of the plot is a 14 year old boy called Charlie Buctan whose life changes when the town’s only Aboriginal boy approaches his window in the middle of the night for help in covering the dead hanging body of Gywn Wishart from a tree. Charlie reluctantly helps in drowning her body into the lake, beginning their adventure to find the true culprits of the murder while unravelling many secrets and social issues. The film explores and shows its audience its genres of mystery, drama and thriller using the themes surrounding racism, secrets, guilt and sympathy through the use of cinematography techniques, sounds and the plot. These themes and genres of the film are supposed to be depicted in the collage titled “Charlie’s Mind Map,” which I constructed to show a finished product of the mind-map Charlie started in the film, yet with the addition of portraying its themes and genres to the audience of teenagers whom may have possibly viewed the film.

Good writers, like Huntley Fitzpatrick, know how to appeal to their audience, for figurative language is more than an “intellectual extravagance” (Krauss). According to R. Grant Steen, “For communication to serve the needs of the listener as well as the needs of the speaker, the listener must be able to understand what the speaker is "really" saying. It is not enough to understand the literal meaning of speech” (Krauss). The key to an interesting novel is the compelling storyline drawing you in and making want to read just a little more, for “no facet of humanity’s evolved “genius” as Aristotle put it more than 2300 years ago, sparkles so brilliantly as our unique capacities for extra-literal description and comprehension” (Krauss).

The poem “Juggler” describes how the tricks the juggler acts out for the crowd amaze and intrigue them. In the poem “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, the author uses imagery, figurative language and tone to describe the juggler as someone who brings happiness and fun to others.

Throughout the book, Northrop uses figurative language to assist in building suspense. Figurative language helps the reader to understand and get a sense of being inside of the book, which allows the events to affect them. Northrop writes, “It had taken me a good fifteen minutes to get to the shop, feeling my way along the walls and lockers like a mole in ski gloves. The air was cold and tight and I was breathing harder than I should’ve been by the time I pushed open the busted door on the industrial arts room.” (Northrop 136) The author uses figurative language to build suspense by allowing the readers to understand the circumstances. The similes help the reader to understand how the characters are feeling, which causes excitement or anxiety.

If anyone is bored, read my essay Australia, like almost any other country has a percentage of teens who are misguided, troublesome and rebellious. They are a very real demographic, and as much as some would not admit, are everywhere, and need to be put back on track. Scott Monk’s writing in his book Raw capture this almost perfectly. Through out the novel Monk displays exceptional use of narrative conventions, such as setting, dialogue, characters and plot seem very, very real. So real that you almost feel as if you have entered Raw’s world.

In this essay I am going to be talking about author of “The Book Thief” Markus Zusak’s craft. What is author’s craft? Author’s craft are the tools and techniques an author uses to write a story. An example of this is learning to read. You are not going to give someone who can’t read a book and expect them to know what to do. Markus Zusak uses death as the narrator, capitalization stylistically, and unusual figurative language to make this story unique.

Richard Connell uses figurative language to describe the mood and the tone because he wants us to the reader to know the character feeling and the emotion they are going to. Also the attitude the character gives in a situation. So Richard Connell uses figurative language to show the mood and the tone. For example “Rainsford and his friend Whitney are sailing in the middle of the night so dark that it look like moist black velvet.” The mood that Rainsford is calm. Another example is “Rainsford's impulse was to hurt himself down like a panther.” He is being compared to the panther. The mood is angry and the tone is aggressive. This is how Richard Connell uses figurative language to describe the mood and the tone.

2.In the book ¨Trino´s choice¨, figurative language has added to the overall plot of the story. For example, in the book on page 68 it says ¨No matter how loud the hallways, that whispery sound slithered into Trino´s ears, down his throat, and coiled into a thick knot in his stomach.¨ This is explaining that Rosca is not leaving Trino alone, and Trino cant stop thinking about it. In addition in the book ¨The Outsiders¨ Ponyboy and Johnny couldn't keep there minds off of killing the soc, and Trino couldn't keep his mind off Rosca.This example of figurative language has added to the overall plot of the story because just a few days before, Trino got jumped by a kid named Rosca. When Trino´s moms friend came to help him they all ran off. After

The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most coveted accolades in the world of art and literature. It’s not awarded to any ordinary writing. In the year 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for her highly acclaimed book The Yearling. Rawlings’s artful use of syntax, sensory detail, and effective figurative language throughout her book makes it more than worthy of a Pulitzer Prize.

I think that Mrs. Jones takes Roger to her home, because her childhood must’ve not been that great, and she wanted Roger to become a good person. In other words, she must have done some terrifying stuff during her childhood, and she doesn't want Roger, or any other kids to come up like her. She wants others to be well-behaved. Firstly, that shows how Mrs. Jones did some awful things when she was young was when it said, ¨ ¨I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.¨ There was another long pause.

In novels, authors write works of literature for all their readers. Authors use literary elements to create a meanings for us to uncover. Sometimes, these meanings may not be too explicit. As we understand the tools that authors use, we can identify the meaning behind their work. One example can be found in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse- Anderson. In this novel, most words are used to enhance the meaning behind the title.

Writers use specific literary devices such as analogy, juxtaposition and syntax to help shape the story in a meaningful way. Also it allows for the reader to have clear understanding towards the argument.In order to help the reader fully comprehend the plot, they must be a wear of sentence fluency and structure in order to add pursasive emphasis to the text. By juxtaposing the argument with another idea, it will relate one's senses and illustrates the aspects being compared. An author also use analogies to bring a more personal connection from the text to reader and direct them on how the author intended for them to feel.

Evening Hawk In the poem Evening Hawk, the author Robert Penn Warren uses figurative language to portray the scene, mood and meaning. A lot of imagery is used to convey the meaning, Warren use of words creates a sense of sadness, and darkness. The hidden message within the poem can be discern through his use of words and the mood he creates through the description of every object Robert mentions a hawk that symbolizes death, and how humanity tends to ignore it.