Haroun And The Sea Of Stories Figurative Language

Wells, the author uses setting and point of view (P.O.V) to build suspense. As shown in paragraph 43 “A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery. Beyond were Hanley and Etruria, grey dark masses, outlined by the rare golden dots of the street lamps. " This demonstrated how Wells uses setting to create suspense with the mysterious description of the character’s surroundings.

Here, the author is using the motif light versus darkness to provide vivid imagery for the reader. The author uses this imagery to build on the theme that there is beauty within war. The author uses diction such as dark and silver to enhance the beauty of war in the eyes of

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.

First literary element the author uses is symbolism. When Mickey Bolitar first breaks into Bat Lady house, who is also known as the strange old woman everyone is afraid of who also never comes out of her house. As he walks through Bat lady house he encounters a black and white photograph with four people with a t-shirt that has a butterfly on it with what looks like an eye on one of the wing. He repeatedly see’s the butterfly symbol throughout the book even on his

There are also a lot of cool colors in this book such as blue and green which help to create more of a dream like vision.

In The Odyssey by Homer, figurative language is used to describe the challenges Odysseus faces while trying to achieve his ultimate objective. The use of similes, symbolism, and metaphors in the text are to show and describe the obstacles that Odysseus had to endure during and after his journey to get home and his battle to get it back. First, Homer uses symbolism to explain that Odysseus and his men were near the grasp of death, meaning they were gonna die if they didn’t do anything against Polyphemus, the cyclops. After Odysseus and his men got into the cyclops house and got caught, they had made Polyphemus intoxicated. They tricked him into believing that Odysseus’s name was nobody and after he fell asleep stabbed him with a giant stick

Emotionally, I felt a sense of surrealism. I felt sad. And at other parts I felt disgusted and sorry for the characters. I began to question everything in the book. O’Brien used imagery in a very powerful way. For example he writes, “The place was at peace. There were yellow butterflies. There was a breeze and a wide blue sky” (173). There were many other examples of the exceptional use

In any book, novel, or short story, imagery, diction, and details help create a certain theme or mood. Imagery can help show a scene in your head, diction can help give you a better idea of what the author is trying to say, and details add more to the story to give a better understanding. In the book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, imagery, diction, and details make up an important part of creating a mysterious mood.

The novel genre is horror, but the tone was not very mysterious or frightening, and this definitely had an effect on the overall creepiness of the story. There were bits of a more creepy tone throughout the novel. “They felt brittle to the touch and icy, but he held onto them, turning them over until the lenses caught the light and shone behind their layer of dust.”, page 105. This tone gives a mood to the story and setting. It makes the room seem more strange and peculiar.

Throughout Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie provides a fundamental, yet intricate variety of literary usage. These instances of literary usage provide and framework of support for the text which is to follow and to further accentuate the smaller and unnoticeable details of the story in to vital parts which are necessary for better comprehension and understanding of the meaning of the upcoming events. Symbolism is the most commonly used and most imperative literary device used by Rushdie. 'With the land of Chup, on the dark side of Kahani?This looks like the doing of the leader of the Chupwalas, the Cult master of Bezaban.'(H.S.S. Pg 75) This statement from the text has a very symbolic meaning behind it, both in terms of the

1.On page 53 it the book describes Eva’s best friends eyes as blue as the sky. During the Hitler salute on page 65 Eva described how everyone stood like statues. On page 27 she meets a girl with hair looked like shimmering gold in the sunlight. Page 133 tears rolled down her cheeks like a dam beginning to cave in. Page 149 The language I’d thought I lost forever shimmered, alive and real, in front of me. The author uses imagery several times throughout the book in order to give the reader better understanding and be able to imagine what is happening in the book.

There are many references to darkness, blackness and the moon which create an exciting and romantic atmosphere keeping the reader in suspense. The first lines which include powerful metaphors such as "The wind was a torrent of darkness" and "The moon was a ghostly galleon" entice you to read on. Words such as 'ghostly', 'hell', 'blood' and 'death' suggest a sense of danger. This is stereotypical because no fairytale story of love and separation is complete without a hint of danger. 'The Highwayman' contains a lot of repetition e.g. "

The famous philosopher Plato once said, “You can discover more about a person with an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” But dialogue and figurative language can help the reader understand people, and their surroundings. An hour of play can’t tell their deepest secrets and their emotions to bring your fate's together. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the dialogue of her characters and the descriptive language she uses helps show the mood and helps inference more about the novel.

In Salman Rushdie’s, Haroun and the Sea of Stories a boy named Haroun, is taken on a magical and fantasy-like journey to Kahani, a moon very far away with living species. Haroun travels to Kahani with Iff, the water genie who took Haroun's father's storytelling abilities away. In Kahani, Rushdie introduces two vastly different civilizations, the Gups and the Chups. The Gups prefer a more talkative and “bright” way of life, as opposed to the Chups, who are forbidden to speak because of their ruler, Khattam-Shud. Eventually, the Chups are accused of stealing the princess of Gup and trying to poison the Sea of Stories. This accusation leads to heated tension, and eventual war between the two sides. In the war, communication is vital. The Chups lack of communication as opposed to the Gups over communication and many arguments helps lead the Gups to victory.

To have his father regain his confidence and his mother to return home, Haroun took a journey in the Sea of Stories, hoping that the magical and kind beings living there will fulfill his request. However, before he was able to ask for anything, he needed to help the good Guppees to defeat the bad Chupwalas.