Figurative Language In Los Angeles Notebook

Didion personifies the wind as almost an unknown epidemic. Similar to when an unknown disease goes viral, all walks of life are affected. Didion clearly states how teachers, students, doctors, to physicists, to generally everyone becomes unhappy and uncomfortable during the winds. She does not write of how the wind caused fire to ravage the shrublands, but she writes of the symptoms it inflicts on the people. Didion mentions all the after effects of the wind and the harm it can do like inflict paranoia. She mentions how the fear-stricken victims of southern California are paranoid like her neighbor that refuses to leave the house and her husband who roams with a machete. Didion’s personification of the wind focuses on a fearful and distant light.

With the use of emotion, Didion is able to describe the horrifying causes the Santa Ana has on human behavior through murders and horrible wind conditions. “On the first day

This time I will be talking about the tone. The overall tone is supposed to be ominous as shown by the storm mainly. Generally a stormy background is supposed to cause the image in the reader's head that it is gloomy and scary. It almost is there like you can’t see what is happening, like anything could sneak up on you. In a storm you can’t hear what is creeping up you cause the sound of the rain covers it and you never know

When I was attending my ninth grade, we had an assembly speaker who told us about how a tornado ripped through his town. The day that his school returned to session, his English teacher choose specific romanticism texts that involved tornadoes and weather. He stood before us as “In my own neighborhood, I had something that those writers described as beautiful and pure. The way they described it, I started to enjoy nature’s purest forms. I became so interested. I think I took the writers too literally by their ‘following nature’ talk that I ended up becoming a storm chaser.”

The “Tornado Town, USA” article, published on May 26, 2016 by Maggie Koerth-Baker enlightens us about the menacing natural disaster known as tornado. The purpose of this piece, or how I viewed it, is to inform us about how tornadoes form and what their capabilities. Mrs. Baker, through her writing, pursues to better educate us on the terrifying and chaotic nature of a tornado. I believe Mrs. Baker exquisitely uses the logical and emotional appeal in order to hook and sedate readers into her writing.

The darkness in the sky gave a hint towards the evil lurking in the world. Suspicion filled the minds of all trusted to defend particular terrain. A wind blew across the world. The kind of wind that seemed to whisper,” Boo”. Upon a strike of thunder, rain started to beat the ground. An aroma of terror had been commenced.

During high winds, hail, and excessive precipitation, nothing good ever happens, and that applies to literature. Throughout literary works, weather indicates upcoming events. For example, a storm links to unfavorable forthcoming and rainbows associate with hope and renewal. In novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by Scott Fitzgerald, displays how the weather is hailed to be prevalent in the narrative’s depiction of the character’s emotion and the tone of the story.

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 novel A WindStorm in the Forests, John Muir uses descriptive language to his advantage to show the beauty within the wind. He accomplishes this by appealing to the senses; particularly sight and sound are emphasized in this passage. When the winds are in motion their subtle miracles present themselves. Additionally, Muir makes metaphors referring mentioning the winds are Godly because they are in such unison with the forests they appear. The use of visual descriptions tell the audiences about the winds.

In class, a different variety of short stories were introduced and each of them relate to a specific theme from unit 2. One particular short story that is metaphorically intriguing is Kate Chopin’s “The Storm.” This story is about a woman named Calixta who rekindles an old romance with Alcee in the midst of an ongoing storm, while her husband and child are at the market. Calixta is unaware that a storm is coming just like she is unaware of the sexual tension that she still has for Alcee. This storm is symbolic overall, because it brings a deeper meaning to the theme and text. In addition, the short story uses the literary device of metaphor to compare the relationship between the storm taking place outside along with the electrical passion taking place inside; this storm is also intended to reflect Calixta's elusive desires for an old love, which are longing to erupt at the first opportunity it gets.

Rich’s imagery here evokes an atmosphere of having limited choices in protecting one’s self against an isolating and emotionless world. Rich draws on the notion that the wind holds a brutal force as the antagonist of the poem, as the voice of the poem is a passive onlooker, not participating or being as the self cannot work out how to reclaim their existence. Just as change occurs in Human life and we cannot control it, another unavoidable change in the weather due to the onslaught of a storm is something we can also not govern. This draws connections with Richs links to instruments that supposedly predict the weather, cannot, however, or event or provide a proof against this strain no matter how many times tried. No instrument is a “proof against the wind” or against a powerful storm, but can foresee and measure such change. All that stands between Richs speaker and the outside change is the glass of the windows which has been “falling all afternoon”, shattered by the forces of nature. This breakable glass suggests how vulnerable humans are. The poet also realises that humans are fairly helpless, unable to stop the rising wind, only able to take minor defensive action such as closing shutters. This cold and isolating “troubled region”

Nature’s apathy toward humankind’s obstacles is highlighted in an observation the correspondent makes about the tower. As the correspondent wonders about the tall wind tower on shore, he is observant of how the tower’s appearance is analogous to nature’s indifference:

Waves crashed on the shore, the next one louder than the last with the wind picking up more and more. Mother Superior warned everyone of her power, sending chills up the spine. It made me long for a sense of warmth, a sense of connection and stability with someone, something. The cloudy sky and rough waters merged together in the distance, signaling hope that maybe there was a peaceful scene to come. It was within myself, also, that I was hoping to come to an inner peace.

In ‘The Great Enigma: new collected poems’ written by Tomas Tranströmer and translated by Robin Fulton, Tranströmer uses storms in a number of his poems to communicate ideas. In ‘A Winter Night’ (p68) Tranströmer uses two storms in conjunction to communicate the idea of global consciousness. In ‘Downpour over the Interior’ (p88) Tranströmer uses a storm to show how the past and the present are linked, and also demonstrates the idea of global consciousness. To help convey these ideas, Tranströmer uses a variety of poetic devices such as personification, metaphor, contrast and many others to reinforce and emphasise these ideas by drawing the reader’s attention to key phrases which give meaning.

“The Santa Ana” begins rhetorically similar to “Brush Fire,” but there are numerous aspects of Didion’s introduction that differentiate it