Literary Devices In Katherine Brush's The Birthday Party

In Game Changers: Play Makers by Mike Lupica, point guard Ben McBain realizes he is quick to judge. Ben and his best friends, Sam and Coop are coming off of the apex of their young football careers. In the last game of the season, Ben threw a last second touchdown pass to Sam for their school, Rockwell, to beat rival school Darby. But for now, eleven year old Ben McBain is on to basketball. Hoping it will end up being as fun as football was.

Theme always has been attached importance by authors. Authors always try to develop their theme in their theme in their book by using rhetoric and literary devices. Picture Bride is a book that was writen by Yoshiko Uchida. It talks about a Japanese woman, Hana, has her new life in America as a immigrant and there are a lot of setbacks in her life are waiting for her. Uchida trys to inform that reality does not always match a person’s expections. Uchida develops this theme through the use of literary and rhetoric dievices which are imagery, personification and repetition.

In the short story, The Birthday Party, by Katherine Brush, she uses a variety of literary devices to convey her series of atmospheres. Katherine Brush incorporates two different atmospheres. In the beginning of the story, the couple seemed to be content and "unmistakably married". Throughout this part of the story, the narrator seems to be noting how happy the couple seem to be with one another. In the other half of the story the atmosphere shifts and becomes depressing.

In the short story "The Birthday Party", by Katherine Brush, Brush utilizes literary devices to portray the fact that people act heartlessly towards each other. Brush uses imagery in multiple occasions as well as inference. First of all, Brush utilizes imagery to help stimulate one the five senses. The sense that is stimulated is "sight". For instance, the author writes, "The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it..."

In Paying for the Party, the authors discuss the “isolates” found within college dorms and greek housing alike. For female isolates, a friend was someone who “willingly socialized with another woman and regularly included her in activities like going out for meals, doing laundry, watching TV, and partying (if so inclined).” Social isolates willingly align themselves with others who share their interests and motives in life. However, there are limitations and exceptions to this rule. Isolation is a two-way relationship, based upon the interactions between the individual and the people that surround them.

Throughout the short story, Brush foreshadows a turn of events. Brush says, "There was nothing particularly conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable... the husband's birthday, and the wife had planned a little

The imagery in this story demonstrates Connie’s perception about the world as she sees it. “But all the

The author carefully crafts the story so that every detail contributes to a certain unique or single effect, whether it is as complex as irony or as simple as depiction of feelings. The Husband describes his absolute love for Ann as he reminisces about the years he spent with her and how deeply he "knows"

Communities of color are portrayed as drug handlers when in actuality there is an estimate of about 80 million Caucasian drug users compared to 15 million African American users according to the Substance of Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Fellner 3). Although opposing arguments would argue that the white population is six times greater than the black population, the absolute number of white drug offenders is far greater than that of black drug offenders (Fellner 6). But, with racial dynamics and social media’s part in shaping of what a drug offender would appear like, most would not picture a white middle-class man snorting cocaine. Because of this, “race has been and remains inextricably involved in drug law

The discovery of electricity opened the door to many mysteries that challenged scientists of the nineteenth century. Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of some challenges that man could run into during the exploration and application of new technology in The Birthmark. These challenges are not entirely physical but they are more so about an internal struggle within Victorian mindsets. In The Birthmark there are only three characters: Aylmer, a scientist, Georgiana, Aylmer’s wife, and Aminadab, Aylmer’s lab assistant. Hawthorne isolates the characters in their caste to present individual viewpoints of a tragic flaw. Each character promotes innocence but they are caught up in traditional values. Hawthorne writes of an honest but fatal mistake

“Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush uses literary devices such as tone, point of view, diction, and sensory details to achieve her purpose.

Imagery is used flawlessly in this short story. O’Connor uses descriptive adjectives fairly often to paint a picture in the reader’s mind and to add spice to her

In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Garden Party”, Laura’s wavering view on the class distinctions of the time can be seen through the recurring symbol of the sandwiches that are presented throughout the story. The symbolism of the sandwiches can be seen in the two juxtaposing symbols- the delicacy of the sandwiches, symbolizing the upper class, and the bread-and-butter, symbolizing the lower class. Both of these contradictory symbols work together to form the image of Laura’s wavering opinion on the class distinctions that are imposed in the generation of the play.

In the short story, “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, a young child named Rachel experienced her eleventh birthday in a classroom. As the story progresses there is a change in the tone- from nonchalant to sadness to anger. Cisneros uses various forms of figurative language throughout “Eleven”, such as repetition, metaphors and similes, and symbolism.

The use of imagery in a short story has a great deal of effect on the impact of the story. A story with effective imagery will give the reader a clear mental picture of what is happening and enhance what the writer is trying to convey to the reader. William Faulkner exhibits excellent imagery that portrays vivid illustrations in ones mind that enhances, “A Rose for Emily”. The following paragraphs will demonstrate how Faulkner uses imagery to illustrate descriptive pictures of people, places and things that allow Faulkner to titillate the senses.