Figurative Language In The Yearling

Having weird pets such as a snake, spider, or iguana can be an enormous amount of fun but having a deer as a pet is a completely different story. The yearling is a novel about a boy who befriends a deer and takes it in as a pet. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 for her use of syntax, figurative language, and sensory details.

Her choice of words paints vivid pictures and instills strong feelings appropriate to the situation written at hand. The diction reveals what the characters look like as well as their personality, or clues to their personality. It moves the story forward by showing how the events transition with her choice of words and in the way she reveals characters or happenings. Brooke Hauser's choice of figurative language conveys how dire a situation may be, how joyful it may be, and how the features of the characters appear to be in comparison to objects. Her use of figurative language makes it easier to picture the characters as well as obtain an idea of how the characters may feel at the time. The figurative language reveals, in detail, the appearance of the characters as well as their personality. An example would be on page forty-seven, which says, "...the farmer's face, its broad planes darkened in shadows like a field under a passing cloud." Brooke's use of figurative language moves the story forward by revealing new characters, the feelings of characters, and/or new locations. The author's use of sensory detail contributes greatly to the struggles and emotions of the students. In the way she uses it, she shows how horrific an event may be, how disheartening something may be, and/or how cheerful and jovial something may be. She uses sensory details to reveal the, typically physical, features of characters.

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.

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.

Every morning, a 71 year-old male stranger accompanies me on my way to school. I only know of his name, but I enjoy his company and chuckle as he comments on my generation’s use of language. Yet once NPR’s linguistic segment of Fresh Air ends, Geoff Nunberg’s witty remarks fade into the abyss. In the quietness of the car, I am left to revel in my own passion for languages: a transformative journey through Spanish and Chinese.

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.

The speaker did a very good job with his speech. His speech I believe is more informative, because he is describing his recent experience with appendicitis. The area that I liked most about his speech was his introduction. He had a very good hooked that got a lot of people’s attention including my own. He scared me for a moment, because he made everybody believe that he was going to show everybody his appendix that he just had removed from his body. Instead he showed the appendix of a book. Also, as he presented his speech he expressed what happened to him with very personal information. This information helped him establish his credibility. He presented his speech very well and sounded very confident. However, there were a few brief pauses

Family leaves the deepest wounds. Whether a parent or a great-aunt’s step-child; family should love and support no matter what, so naturally arguments and conflicts within families leave harsher scars. Families shape one’s relationship with everyone – siblings, friends, and superiors. In Jim Grimsley’s Winter Birds, the narrator conveys his attitude towards his family as protective, despite disapproval through his use of figurative language, and a second person point of view.

No matter what lifestyle you’re born into you can still be a better person. Some people are born into terrible lives and some lives become worse. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton most of the gang’s lives become worse. The gang faces the other gang and murder takes over gang member’s lives. They face other gang’s and the police. They even face the chance of death and their own families not caring. However, even with all of these issues so to speak, the gang still sticks together and lives their same lifestyle. In The Outsiders the author uses figurative language, both sides of the characters, and a lot of description to show how the characters still push on through tough times.

Through the entirety of “The Veldt,” the reader can tell that something is not right and that something bad is going to happen. The reader can tell this because of the authors amazing use of imagery, diction, and figurative language to foreshadow the end of the story. Throughout the story, the author foreshadows the ending of the story by using imagery to describe Africa, carefully using diction to give of an eerie feeling, and using figurative language in strange ways to describe things.

1. Figurative Language: As Eric Schlosser is introducing Carl N. Karcher in the opening pages of the novel; he refers to his life as a tale by Horatio Alger, growing from modest upbringings, to establish a fast food empire. This quote uses an allusion to the talented author of Horatio Alger whose works often revolve around working middle class fighting adversity to become wealthy, which is the fulfillment of the American dream. Karcher’s life resembles a real life story that can be illustrated by Alger in one of his works comparing his upscale to greatness by pioneering ideas changing the way Americans eat and live.

A sentence in the sixth paragraph where it states, “The leftover husks rustled under his feet.” This is a perfect detail to add into the novel because it adds a sound aspect. If there was no sound, there would be no way to tell what the leaves sounded like. When this small detail is added, the novel is taken to that next level of great. The next sensory detail that I found made the novel so strong was the use of sight. Within the ending of the second paragraph there is a sentence that gives a great sense of sight. The sentence reads, “The blue, white-tufted sky closed over him. This is a detail that again adds so much to the writing. Without this detail, the detail of the sky could have been missing. Lastly, Rawlings uses great sense of sight, that also uses a little bit of figurative language as well. An example of these two devices wrapped into one is towards the end of the third paragraph. This sentence says, “He rolled over on his back and it was as though he looked up into the soft gray breast of a mourning dove.” This sentence really proves that Rawlings is a remarkable writer because she uses two devices in one sentence. Two devices that really go into great detail to get her point across and tell the

In Native Son by Richard Weight, Wright characterizes Bigger through his use of simile and repetition to convey a fierce tone.

Carver makes the reader imagine a perfect relationship fall like a thousand bricks. He tells how snow slowly melts into dirty water, the day was dark. The destruction of the family is almost exactly how the weather is described. The father begins to fight with the mother because he wants the baby. The father becomes violent towards the mother, who was carrying the baby,she is no match for him.

In recent years, Pulitzer Prize winning fiction novels clearly differ in theme and style. The 2011 winner, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goonsquad, is a multi-faceted, complex narrative focused on the music industry. In 2013, Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, a historical fiction novel on North Korea, took the prize. Though these novels take place in different countries and deal with diverging topics, they do have one thing in common: in each of these Pulitzer-Prize-winning novels, secondary female characters become deified, allowing the reader to attach the sensation of hope onto them. This occurs in Egan’s novel, as Lulu comes to represent the promise of a new generation. The same phenomenon occurs with Sun Moon in The Orphan