In Cold Blood Metaphors

(Page 2). This explains to the reader of the story that Jamal had kicked the ball very hard and fast through the air. The ball could be referred to look like a scud missile flying through the air. Morris Glietzman has said like a scud missile because a scud missile travels at high speed. Morris Glietzman uses these similes in accordance with the story to make the reader feel that the object being described in the simile is alive when it maybe non living. Morris Glietzman uses similes in his books to help the reader understand how the object or person is without plainly saying that the ball was flying fast trough the air but like a scud missile.

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

The case of Mary Morstan is presented to start on a ‘September evening’. This particular choice of month brings the reader into the cold,foggy and often miserable atmosphere of September. The atmosphere is highlighted by the sentence ‘the day had been a dreary one,and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city.’

For example, Bradbury writes “He would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” The simile used does a great job showing the reader the setting of this scene in the “The Pedestrian”. In this scene a man is walking down the sidewalk kicking up ash-like dust. When the reader sees the image of that man, the reader gets the sense of a content and tranquil situation.

In Truman Capote’s captivating nonfiction, In Cold Blood, Capote ventures through the journey and lives of both the killed and the killers all while analyzing the point in which they crossed paths. From the days before the four Clutters were murdered to the last moments of the two killers’ lives, Capote takes into account each and every aspect that creates the ‘famous’ Clutter Case with an in depth look of just how and why these strange and unforeseeable events occurred. What was originally supposed to only be an article in a newspaper turned into an entire book with Capote analyzing both how and why a murder comes to be through the use of pathos, juxtaposition, and foreshadowing.

Diction is seen to be used greatly in conveying the suitability of the town for All Souls' Day. Pathetic Fallacy is also used to portray the message by Albert Camus. Also, the “cool wind”, “big clouds...trailing shadows”, “glossy” and “oiled clothing” give the impression of a cool, damp shadowy day, with clothing mimicking this, portraying the psychology of the people of Oran when they are in melancholy for their loved ones. However, from around the third paragraph onwards, a turning point is seen. As previously suggested, it was a suitable time of the year for mourning and All Souls' Day, but ironically this did not occur.

Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length

The author uses raw descriptive words such as “iron,” “tarry,” and “tin,” to display this city as superficial. The city is just made out of these substances that the people have made these buildings out of. These substances all conduct heat and present this madness and anger of the man in the poem. These materials present a manmade structure that displays the city as shallow.

* ‘This late, the architecture is desolate and reached of colour’’ symbolic, suggests of life having been washed out in the town-devoid of colour.

In his poem Auto Wreck (p. 1002), Karl Shapiro uses carefully constructed similes to cause the events he relates to become very vivid and also to create the mood for the poem. To describe the aftermath, especially in people's emotions, of an automobile accident, he uses almost exclusively medical or physiological imagery. This keeps the reader focused and allows the similes used to closely relate to the subject of the poem. Three main similes used are arterial blood, tourniquets and cancer. These images all follow the same idea, and thus add more to the poem than other rhetorical figures might.

In his poem, Flames and Dangling Wire, the first line immediately sets the scene allowing us to have a sense of where we are. The use of a simile in “The smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread and dragged to smudge” implies the filthiness of the tip and the smoke rising from the fires. This also causes the air to

The book In Cold Blood is a nonfiction book about the murder of the Clutter family. Taking place back in the 1959s, Truman Capote writes about the events leading up to the murders, when the murders took place, and the aftermath. He tells the story in such a descriptive manner, that it feels like we were there when it happened. The purpose of writing like that is so we can know everyone’s side of the story, even people you wouldn’t ordinarily think of. He helps us feel like we were there when it happened by effectively and efficiently using the rhetorical strategies. The rhetorical strategies I feel were most important to the story were pathos, logos, and the tone. The way Capote uses these rhetorical strategies and literary devices is

20. “The docking module – which looked a lot like a giant version of a propane container you might hook up to your barbeque, only orange…” (Pg. 188) A simile is used to describe the docking module by comparing it to a propane container.

On the other hand, the people in Washington, the government officials and all those who support Prohibition are described as dull and boring. He describes the blacks' presence in Washington as "thrusting unconcscious rhythms, black reddish blood into the white and whitewashed wood of Washington. Stale soggy wood of Washington." He uses the word blood to represent the livelihood and the energy of the blacks. Those who support Prohibition are described as "white and whitewashed wood of Washington." Therefore, they are seen as completely washed of life and energy. They are simply dry, boring people who do not understand what living is really all about. He mentions how "wedges rust in soggy wood." The people of Seventh Street simply cannot mesh with those who support Prohibition. Toomer says the the wood should be cut and split and allowed to dry in the sun and blow away.

Another simile the author uses is, ?As wet as the children whose mothers are going to give them away,? (line #6,7,8) to simulate a sweaty love making scene. This scene being described should give the reader clear images in thought which allows one to understand how Olds views these acts. The simile ?light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin,? (line #11,12,13) can also be used to perceive the same image of a hot, sweaty, and passionate love making scene. The confusion displayed by the author creates repeated questions concerning how two people who are not in love can execute such a