Figurative Language In The Veldt

In Eleven & War Years, both authors evoke strong emotions of frustration and anger through the use of rhetorical questioning, figurative language, and word choice, thus emphasizing these emotions.

Ray Bradbury used figurative language to characterize non-human objects in multiple ways in the short story “The Veldt”. This piece of writing tells us about the lives and demise of the Hadleys, overtaken by futuristic technology. In the beginning of the story, it is revealed that the names of George and Lydia Hadley’s children are Peter and Wendy - “You know how difficult Peter is about that! … And Wendy too.” (Bradbury 2) This is probably an allusion to the story of Peter Pan, and could point at the fact of how they spend a lot of time in the nursery, creating their own sceneries. Just like Wendy and Peter in J. M. Barrie’s story, we can infer that they are trying to escape reality throughout a box of screens and images. As it later turns out, they are

Paulo Coelho once said “Don't waste your time on explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” The quote said by Paul Coelho connects to the story as a mood of a life lesson within the main character (narrator) that goes through major struggles throughout their life of trying to keep their mother satisfied with their actions. The mood shows how each thing changes throughout time and more. In the story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan, the author uses figurative language and descriptive language to develop the mood of the story.

“Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written.

Monument 14 When weather phenomenons strike, people flee and try to look for shelter. Such is the case in Emmy Laybourne’s book Monument 14. The two children, Dean and his brother Alex, are riding buses that crash into each other on their way to school. Mrs. Wooly, one of the bus drivers, saves the students from both busses. After saving them she drives the students through the hail storm to a local store called Greenway, where the stay for a long time.

Straight towards the house the wind blew like a flash, whipped open the shutters, and tore off the sash. In The Yearling, winds of this caliber are described by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling is a tale of a young boy named Jody living in central Florida as the only surviving child of his parents. His parents are convinced, by Jody, to let him keep a fawn to a doe his father had recently harvested. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 because of her poetic depiction and description through the utilization of sensory details, figurative language, and syntax for effect.

In Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson delivers the robust concluding lines, “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed. And i will see him bleed again” (Sanderson 9). These last two brief, seemingly trivial sentences, conceal this whole literary work within them. A young boy has witnessed his father be killed by the very being who was thought to protect them. With this slender feeling of hope essentially crushed from his very being, David, is the only living testimony to know this villain’s weakness. And with this information, he vows to seek retribution. The basis of this story was really compelling to me because of the incorporation of vivid imagery and descriptive figurative language, which allowed me to connect with the characters. Although not being able to completely resonate with this story, I have encountered the feeling of revenge, which was clearly foreseen within this writing and deeply empathetic.

The Things They Carried is more than just a story about the Vietnam war. A focus has been placed on the real soldiers who lived through it. With the use of repetition, figurative language, and described imagery O’Brien is able to illustrates his story. WIth these three things, we are able to understand the physical and emotional side of a soldier at war.

The Veldt seemed to be a really scary place with strong vibrations sending alerts of ‘Danger’.

In the short story "The Ascent", the author, Ron Rash, uses figurative language throughout the story that urges the reader to believe that the the whole story revolves around a theme of being unlucky. First, Ron Rash has added the simile, “A woman was in the passenger seat, her body bent forward like a horseshoe” (Rash 280). For centuries, horseshoes have been associated with luck when they are upright. However when horseshoes are bent over that is associated with luck running out. In the story, the fifth grade protagonist, Jared, is wandering in the woods and stumbles upon an airplane that crashed a week before. When Jared walks in, he sees the dead woman, bent over like a horseshoe, which represents her luck running out. Considering

In the story “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury uses several literary devices in order to hint the reader towards the ending of the story. Specifically, the author uses imagery, diction, and figurative language to foreshadow the conclusion to his tale. Bradbury depends on his use of imagery in order to suggest the resolution of the text. In the passage it states, “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.” As the reader notices, the author vividly describes the scents that fill the nursery.

Recently, in the news, society has been exposed to the corruption of the judicial system. Americans, being tried for a heinous crime, would often be convicted with lesser sentences rather than the ones seemingly insignificant. In the novel, The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón describes the real world by using imagery and includes vague details in regards to character development, therefore fabricating a mystery. A bookseller’s son, Daniel tries to unravel the disappearance of his favorite author. Around every corner, something in his findings are repeatedly tangling.

Africa, compared to the Europe, America and the West indies, lacked in fundamental aspects that the countries involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade viewed as necessities. It lacked industrial growth, mercantilism and a flourishing economy beginning to run on trade. This was a very significant difference between the towns and tribes that the African populace had grown up in. Once seeing the stark differences, it’s said that European mindset believed that the African peoples had a ‘uncivilised’ and ‘barbaric’ way of life. (Reference) In “The African Slave Experience” by Olaudah Equiano, it is a riveting read where the experience of being captured, and taken from their own indigenous home is captured. He mentions here, “And I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.” (Reference). As African people would have very limited, or non-existent knowledge, the complexion, the

The genre of this movie is complicated to defined, since it looks more like a play than a movie. I would say the literature main genre is drama and fiction. It is necessary for a reader to know which category of genre they are reading to understand the message it conveys. Drama is a form that is performed in front of an audience. Also, known as a play. It contains dialogue and stage direction just like the movie. When it comes down to deciding rather the movie is fictional or non-fictional its questionable. In a way, it can be both fictional and non-fictional. Although, it has factual points that transmit information about slavery, it also has a lot complex figurative language to touch the reader’s imagination.

Hot and cold by Katy Perry, this song is about a girl falls in love with a guy who is unsettled. He keep changing his mind about staying with her the rest of his life. Their relationship is all over the place and falling apart, instead of steady and romantic as it used to be. The song have many different figurative of language uses. She used metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and antithesis.