Essay about Figurative Language in the Poem Parsley by Rita Dove

Do you know what is in the food that you are fueling your body with? Eating locally grown food or growing your own food allows you to know exactly what is in your food and where it is coming from. Award winning author Barbara Kingsolver ditched her urban life full of pesticides and GMOs, and uprooted her family to a farm where they were going to eat all home or locally grown food for a year. The Kingsolver family documented this one-year food journey in their non-fiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver wants to educate, persuade, and inspire her readers to live healthier lives by first forcing them to question the food they are consuming. She uses allusion, figurative language, and rhetorical questioning

Gabby Nunez The Use of Imagery and Figurative Language to Communicate Themes in Euripides’ Medea In the play, Medea by Euripides, there are many examples of imagery and figurative language to communicate themes such as: revenge, love, pride and culture. Medea falls in love with Jason, a man from Greece, she gives up everything and leaves her country to be with the one she loves. Shortly after Jason and Medea arrive to Corinth, Jason leaves Medea and marries the king’s daughter. Filled with anger and hurt, Medea plans to get revenge on those who have hurt her.

The poem “Fight” by Laurel Blossom is full of poetic devices that help develop the theme. In the poem, Blossom is writing about how she and her lover are very different (opposite), and how her lover is more prepared and she is more of a free spirit. The summary very directly correlates with the theme, which is that opposites attract. Although the author is having troubles with the differences between her and her lover, she is trying to overlook them to be with her lover. The poem has a plethora of poetic devices, such as imagery, assonance, and rhyming words, therefore helping the theme.

Many different forms of figurative language I used throughout the story to exhilarate the irony. The opening description of Ethan is full of ironic expressions. Figurative language is also used to the describe reactions to events in the story. The author is very descriptive in this short story. The use of figurative language aids in description of events, the setting, mood, and characters’ appearance and response. Edith Wharton, the author, use of literary devices allows the story to come alive and to also require the reader to think deeply about the true meanings.

“Figurative language can give shape to the difficult and the painful. It can make visible and ‘felt’ that which is invisible and ‘unfeelable’.” - Mary Oliver. Figurative language is used in stories, articles, and writing to help set the story. Using metaphors, similes, hyperbole, or other examples of figurative language can help a reader grasp onto depressing or difficult ideas. In the stories The Pigman by Paul Zindel and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the authors use figurative language to develop the mood, setting, and characters.

Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a genius piece of literature that stands out from the others. Following its publishing date in September of 1987, it was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction only a year later. This novel holds an abundance of literary merit for numerous reasons but the main one being that it combines the powerful forces of history and literature into a pure work of art. Not only does this book display vivid historical accuracy in the perspective of a slave during the Reconstruction era in the United States, but the language that explains this particular situation is rich in figurative language and challenges readers line by line.

‘Jasper Jones’ is written by the author Craig Silvey. The story evolves in Australia, in a small mining town called Corrigan. It all begins when Jasper Jones, comes to thirteen year old Charlie Bucktin’s window one night and asks him for some help. Charlie has no idea that these events would unfold into a horrifying discovery. Nevertheless, the thrill of Jasper's desperate plea for help draws Charlie out of his bedroom window and into the moonlit night. Not wanting to be blamed again, Jasper swears to Charlie that events that have happened must be kept a secret. Now it’s up to the two boys to uncover the truth and put things into place before the town once again turns against Jasper. As the summer creeps by, Charlie finds it increasingly difficult

Everyone has heard of seeing your life flash before your eyes in the moments before you die, however for old Granny Weatherall, her life trickles by like an unsteady stream that meanders back and forth from the past to the present. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, the author uses imagery, the character’s inner dialogue, and figurative language to show stream of consciousness and how the character feels emotions such as bitterness, wistfulness, and a little bit of desperation.

This poem by Shel Silverstein, is by far my favorite of all the poems in the book for so many reasons. Use of figurative language, the rhyme and the placement of breaks really adds on to the effect of the poem. I believe that the speaker is a average day person who is slowly being consumed by stress and anxiety from his daily life. Obviously the boa constrictor represents the stress and anxiety the speaker is feeling, so it constantly eating him up making him scared and sad of what's going on in his life. I really enjoy use of rhymes because it creates the illusion of innocents in the poem, when really the true meaning of the poem is quite dark and serious. The placement of the stanzas add to the rhyming of the poem making it more and

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.

A freezing winter breeze prowls into the skin of a pubescent twelve year old, leaving his breath visible to his naked eye. All amidst butterflies maneuver in his stomach. Using few words and variations of figurative languages like the example above from “Oranges” by Gary Soto, authors alike can construct a powerful and vivid image of their novels. When people speak literally, their words lack the imagination that literary devices crate. In turn, readers lose the ability to capture the tone that the writer or the author’s characters are trying to convey. Figurative language is the gateway to an author's mind and allows others to interpret the novelist’s way of thinking. Although everyone thinks differently, figurative language is a “language” that everyone can understand. Utilizing the different symbols in “Oranges”, Gary soto harnesses figurative language to strengthen his poem and expresses the feelings of a young boy in love, as he adventures through his first date.

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.

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.

The diction of the poem is the way the author puts the words together to forma phrase. This provides more of an understanding to the mother's emotions, as well as the audience reading the poem. Rita Dove's diction of the poem helps maintain the idea of the theme. The title of the poem really ties in with the poem itself. A good example of this is in the poem is when the mother decides to set up her `palace' of relaxation. `She lugged a chair behind the garage' (line 4). Here the audience senses the amount of exhaustion and strain on the mother's body. After the mother decides `to have a little room for thinking' (line 1). She contemplates a way to find a calm place to relax while she stops her daily chores. Another example use of words would be ideas she used to escape from the over bearing world she was in to a calm and peaceful world she needed. `Sometimes there were things to watch - the pinched armor of a vanished cricket, a floating maple leaf. Other days she stared until she was assured when she closed her eyes she'd see her own vivid blood' (lines 6-11). Here Dove's use of the word `vivid' gives the audience an idea of how badly she needed this

Dylan Thomas's poem "Fern Hill" represents the passage of one mans life from boyhood to adulthood and the realization of his mortality. The speaker in this poem uses expressive language and imagery to depict a tale of growing up. The use of colour adds life and character to people and abstract ideas. He looks up to