How Does Helen Clarkson Use Literary Devices

When reading Jandy Nelson’s The Sky Is Everywhere, the presence of metaphors allows the reader to gain a deeper insight and understanding of Lennie’s life, shedding light onto the grander theme of love. For example, when Lennie writes to Bailey about being dead, Bailey expresses her feelings, as they state “Bails?/ Yeah?/ Is it so dull being dead?/ It was, not anymore./ What changed?/ I stopped peering over the ledge... / What do you do now?/

The chorus goes as following, “Through the wind and the rain/She stands hard as a stone/In a world that she can't rise above/But her dreams give her wings/And she flies to a place where she's loved/Concrete angel”. The first two lines are a simile and represent logos because wind is normally interpreted as something sad that moves things. Rain is also interpreted as sad and depressing because when it rains it is normally gloomy and the sky is grey and simply makes people feel down. The simile is saying that Angela is acting like a hard stone, one that doesn’t move and is up fighting against the harsh wind and rain that is pouring down on her. Also, the last four lines demonstrate that in the abusive situation that Angela is in and can’t seem to get out, affects her want of receiving love and admiration by someone and causes her to rise above and go to heaven where she will receive the love that she

This contrast relates to the theme because it shows how an adult can negatively be affected by materialistic things such as money. In the first stanza there is a strong use of positive imagery- representing a child’s mind. For example, “grass grows soft and white”, gives a floral and peaceful description about the place used in the description. However, in the second stanza there is the use of negative imagery. The imagery used helps to describe a dark and lifeless city, a phrase which influences this would be, “smoke blows black”, which means pollution. Within the second stanza, the narrator introduces personal pronouns. These pronouns influence the reader’s thoughts about the

In the fourth stanza, Clark uses imagery to talk about segregation. She also uses the simile, “I-40 bisected the black community like a tourniquet of concrete,” which means they cut off the flow of traffic and really segregated the black community from everything else. Also in this stanza, the violence of the 60’s was shown through the imagery of the lines stating, “Ambulance siren driving over the house that called 911, diminishing howl in the distance,

Jane Eyre is the story of a girl 's life from age 10 to about 19 she starts out living as an orphan with her aunt and her cousins. And like any other orphan her in pretty much sucked.

The next four lines address death with symbolism and personification to establish the idea of not fearing the unknown future. In line 5, the voice talks about the life cycle

The Significance of Jane Eyre's Relationship With Helen Burns Jane Eyre is a classical novel written in 1947 by Charlotte Bronte, who at the time was also known as "Currer Bell". This timeless piece is based on the life of an orphaned girl named Jane Eyre who begins her life under the care of an Aunt, Mrs. Reed. Both Jane's parents have died within only a year of her birth leaving Mrs. Reed with the responsibility of Jane's well being. However, Mrs. Reeds treatment towards Jane is purely absurd and only provides the child with the bare necessities of life, such as food, clothes and shelter.

In the excerpt From Julia by Lillian Hellman, Hellman uses a casual tone to reveal an individuals capacity for self sacrafice in the face of complelling circumstances. By using a casual tone of voice in the writing and the dialogue between the two characters the excerpt is easy to read and easy to understand the meaning of the text. In this exerpt hellman uses multipke literary devices to help the reader better understand. Hellman uses devices such as foreshadowing, the mood Hellman sets and the attitude between the two main characters. To begin with, “...Lily meets with Julia, a childhood friend who has taken up the battle against Nazism.”

walk away, it is better to be alive than to risk it. The fourth verse in my opinion talks about the

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

In this song the band uses verses to show violent norms and states about how society still has hatred groups. The verses wrap around hatred groups with terrorism living in the United States. The song was written in the 2003 and states about then 9/11 attacks. “Nations droppin' bombs, Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones, With ongoing' sufferin' as the youth die young, So ask yourself is the lovin'

So the theme in Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” is how someone's life is heading towards a dreadful path, the person can’t take control of their life. They don’t know what to do or how to help themselves so, this person reaches out to Jesus to ask for guidance, advice, and to completely take control of their life. This song uses metaphors, similes, allusion, and symbolism in many of the verses. This song was a hit all over, staying at #1 for 6 consecutive weeks on the Billboard of Hot Country. It was also was #4 on Hot Christian Songs and topping highly on the Billboard of Adult Contemporary. This song also won the ‘Single of the Year’ in 2005 at the CMA’s (Country Music Awards).

This song is full of multiple literary devices such as hyperboles, metaphors, and imagery. The hyperboles in the song emphasize strong feelings such as love, hate, and pain. For example, “Just [going to] stand there and watch me burn” (Rihanna, 1), is emphasizing that she is in extreme amounts of pain and all that her significant other is doing, is watching her suffer. “You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe when [you are] with [them]” (Eminem, 33), emphasizes and how he is so in love with

So why would the band choose to illustrate such a serious stage of personal development with the nursery rhyme-like style of the song's chorus? Before we get to that, the song's emotional and psychological message must first be examined.

Within the first two verses of the song, this young woman presents an issue that is all too common for many people. She has big dreams and wants to make a name for herself, but to succumb to making that dream a reality, she would have to desert the loved ones that have made