Figurative Language In The Lieutenant By Kate Grenville

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

In this passage of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the reader obtains a very in depth description of what the Walls Family home in Welch is like once they move in. The author is this text is conveying how poor of a state their new home is. Walls uses the literary element figurative language to reveal the state of their home to the reader.

In the story Matched by Ally Condie author's craft, such as figurative language, has a big input on the story. Cassia’s grandfather gives her an illegal poem that she has to destroy containing words of rebellion about how “a flood may bear me far,” if she had kept the poem she’d be “riding on a flood that I [Cassia] couldn’t stop… the poems are gone and I [Cassia] can never get them back.” (Condie 123) The figurative language refers back to the quote which adds importance to the story. It adds to the story because it shows how significant the poem is and how dangerous it is for the. The use of the words in the poem added to her fear of being caught makes readers wonder why poems such as the one that has fallen into Cassia’s hands are so dangerous

Poets make books with poems that relate to each other. Marie Howe touches on topics related to herself throughout her book “What the Living Do”. She begins her book by going in the past and narrating events, but the main idea behind majority of the poems are on her brother John Howe, Father, and herself. Her brother John died of an AIDs related illness and her father failing to quit drinking alcohol. Howe is very reminiscent in this book. With the sequence of the poems it appears like a story and she used great figurative language to complement them. Although her language and her meanings in the poems are clear her consistent use of couplet stanza form does not always compliment her material, but her title goes perfectly with the way the

Power is usually developed on the basis of fear. In the novel, patients longingly wait for an opportunity, where they can escape the authority of Miss Ratched. Unlike others, McMurphy refuses to leave the ward when Harding suggested a plan, with the reason being that he does not want to interrupt Billy’s date and disappoint him. As the party progresses, alcohol and cough medicine catalyse the men into doing things they would not even dare to think about when they are sober. The excitement soon leads to Sefelt’s seizure, which left Sandy in awe while telling others that she had never seen anything like that. Being the one with a clear mind, Harding throws colorful pills onto the pair and warns them on the consequences if Miss Ratched catches them. By describing themselves as sinners and visualizing their potential punishment, fear soon develops. Through the usage of tone, diction, and figurative

The presence of light and dark imagery is a significant motif in the novel Winesburg, Ohio, vital to the understanding of characters’ suppressed identities and the hidden beauty found within all of their seemingly grotesque personas. Throughout the book, darkness is prevalent whenever a character reveals a secret about themselves to George Willard or the reader, and characters regularly walk around at night. Many of the most important experiences occur in the dark, and within these moments, the characters appear their most extraordinary. The juxtaposition of light and dark portrays the contrast between the characters’ authentic identities and the pretenses they express to society.

Through the creation of character constructs and use of textual techniques, Ken Kesey demonstrates how the status quo is challenged throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Within this text, Kesey uses a collection of stylistic techniques to establish how the status quo is introduced, challenged, and how it ultimately withstood the rebellion.

Diane Chamberlain, the author of Necessary Lies, incorporates figurative language in the form of imagery and anecdotes to evoke certain feelings and perceptions in the reader’s mind. Chamberlain has written this novel using tons of imagery, and this style aids in helping readers visualize certain characters or scenes, essentially building the reader’s imagination. Strongly connected to imagery is descriptive language which in this specific novel, helps create a vivid, realistic description of a certain character or scene. Imagery and descriptive language both stimulate the reader’s senses, further allowing the reader to easily view the thing described through the narrator’s eyes. Chamberlain describes work days in the tobacco farms as when

As the engineer-narrator opens the story of Ethan Frome's tragedy, the reader is quickly made aware that the novel is made up of an expanding series of opposing images and symbols and that the setting is not just a physical place, but also a moral landscape. Mattie Silver's role representative of unrestricted, natural emotions is made all the more clear by Contrast with Zeena, who rules her husband and Mattie with something of a tyranny, as the embodiment of acquired reason and conscience which check them “like the jerk of a chain”(p.3). Furthermore, there is an unmistakeable correspondence between the physical setting of the “outcropping granite,” the bleak and barren village of New England, where the characters move round like ghosts, and the moral

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

In the excerpt of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing McCarthy uses literary techniques that convey an impact on the main character. The literary strategies used are the tone of the excerpt that is created by the syntax, diction, and figurative language used in the excerpt. This allows for what can be interpreted as to what the author is trying to impact. The techniques can give the feeling that the main character is one with the wolf and can have similar feelings to a real life passing and funeral.

The Book Thief was a well-written book. Zusak used many elements of figurative language to help portray his story. He uses imagery to paint a picture in the audience’s brain. It helps us understand the story better. He does not only use imagery; he uses many more figurative language.

Historical fictions have become a way for modern readers to connect with a time long since gone, in a format that stirs their passion for the romanticized depictions created on the pages. Hayden White notes that, “historical discourse wages everything on the true, while fictional discourse is interested in the real—which it approaches by way of an effort to fill out the domain of the possible or imaginable” (White 147). This essay will articulate an analysis of the narrative structure of Maxine Shore’s The Captive Princess, along with the character development of the protagonist Princess Gwladys Ruffyd, the antagonist, the Holy Roman Emperor Claudius, and the motivations behind some of their more notable characteristics.

In the novel The Help, author Kathryn Stockett uses figurative language to develop Skeeter’s character, and demonstrate her relationship with her coloured maid Constantine. After Constantine confides in Skeeter and reveals an element of her past, she sings a childhood song. After years disconnected from one another, Skeeter reminisces the conversation with Constantine and explains, “If chocolate was a sound, it would’ve been Constantine’s voice singing. If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate” (Stockett, 78). In this metaphor Skeeter compares Constantine’s voice to chocolate, meaning her voice is incredibly beautiful.

Strange Meeting and Journey’s End both share similar aspects. Both the texts are set in the First World War and depict in depth what it would be like to be a soldier at the time as well as displaying the endless strife that the soldiers had to endure for four long years. In Journeys End, Sheriff portrays many different emotions through the central character ‘Captain Stanhope’ and similarly in Strange Meeting, Susan Hill does the same with ‘John Hilliard’. In this essay I will compare and contrast the way that both these central characters are presented in the texts.