How Does Barbara Kingsolver Use Figurative Language In Called Out

The use of simile appears again with "Or fester like a sore" (a dream linked to a sore); "And they run?" (this is a metaphor because dreams don't run it also appears to be personification, making a dream into

In Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” there is an abnormal house that does everything on a set time schedule. In this short story Bradbury uses similes to create setting in his story. For example “Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows”(Bradbury 1). This part of the story is talking about tiny mouse robots come out of the walls to come clean up the house and go right back into their burrows. Using this simile helps give a good idea to the reader of the setting by being able to see how tiny mouse come out to clean then back into their burrows. Another simile Bradbury uses to show setting is “ There was the sound like a great matted yellow hive of bees within a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of a purring

Throughout the novel, the author Edward Bloor uses literary devices such as similes to make the readers visualize the descriptive situations in the story. These similes describe to the reader how different occurrences relate to other actions, objects, or living things.

In “A River Runs Through It,” similes are used constantly. They usually relate a person or object to an animal or living entity. For one example, Maclean uses a simile to compare life’s

Simile is one of the main literary devices Markus Zusak used in the book, The Book Thief. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. On page 140 it says, “He felt like a man in a paper suit”. He is trying to say that every time the person, in the book would move he would make a noise. Imagine being covered in paper, every move you make, the paper would cringe and move without being heard. Another example on page 12 it says “Bodies were stuck there like

A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. In the novel Kidd used a simile to compare and make readers understand more. “ I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason”.(11) Kidd compared Rosaleen to a flower to express that at times

Settings and characters in the book are described using allusion and personification; this creates imagery which helps the reader understand what is happening in the book. The main character, Lily Owens, describes her version of Mother Nature, “She[Mother Nature] looked like Eleanor Roosevelt.”.

Dillard effectively uses concrete imagery as a way of conveying her inner struggle to the reader in a handful of ways. In the first paragraph, she paints a vivid picture in the reader’s mind by writing “while barred owls called in the forest and pale moths seeking mates

Right near the beginning the author writes “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars” which is an example of personification. This use of figurative language helps develop a gloomy mood and the fact neighborhood might be poor. Next the author writes “Father’s words like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem” which is an example of a simile. By comparing “Father’s” words to a distant thunder it makes the reader think his father is a big, strict, loud, and that the character and his father are probably in an argument. Finally, the author describes Lemon Brown’s voice as “high and brittle like twigs being broken” which is an example of a simile. By describing the voice as high and brittle it makes the reader think the voice may be from an older person who is potentially a woman. Walter Dean Myers makes great use of figurative language in the story Treasure of Lemon Brown.

Figurative language is a main component in showcasing the emotions the characters reveal. An example being when the author writes “ The children huddled up to her and breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight.” This portrays the children's emotions with more emphasis and really shows how they watched everything Granny Weatherall did with precision. This type of writing really helps the reader understand what is going on within the characters and their actions. The author also displays figurative language in the way she describes how John would be in the situation of them still being together. She describes him as being more of a child, rather than taking a parent role.

The muscles’ jabbering like chickens is again a beautiful example of symbolism-cum-metaphor. Ward writes, “…her skin was dark as the reaching oak trees” (22), and “…until his legs turn to noodles and he is sliding down Randall like a pole” (43), which are beautiful expressions of her crafting of symbolism, metaphors, and similes in her novel. So, we see that metaphorical language can be found more often throughout

According to the essay “Called Out”, Barbara Kingsolver uses literary devices such as personification and metaphors to convey a tone of wonder. Albert Einstein once stated,”Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Einstein implies how nature is fulfilled with wonderment every second of every day. Furthermore, Kingsolver uses her essay to portray how she wonders about the very little substances in nature such as the flowers. The personification she established was,”The flowers will go on mystifying us, answering to a clock that ticks so slowly we won’t live long enough to hear it.” Hypothetically speaking, visualize an experiment being done by an elder scientist and they are performing this by the use of plastic.

     In his ninth story, 'The Locusts';, Ray Bradbury uses similies to envoke a response from the reader. He makes the many rockets that are landing on Mars to be just like locusts, swarming over a concentrated area and destroying it. 'And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night.'; The reader sees from the similies that the rockets were overwhelming to the Martians and they were only pests, they did not help.

The central idea of Barbara Kingsolver's “Called Out” is the wildflower bloom of the Arizona desert in 1998. Nearly half the desert flowers burst into a period if bloom and death. The mountains were covered with many colors. The rain from the El Nino gave the flowers perfect conditions to grow. Lastly, the desert plant species vary their genetic schedule for germination to reduce competition and allow the flowers to

Simile is a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar. Simile and metaphor genuinely have an identical definition. Both of them compare two things that absolutely different. Simile is the explicit comparison of two things,