Literary Devices Used For Overcoming Obstacles

Many examples of figurative language can be found in "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer. There is imagery (sight and perception/ feeling) on page eleven: "... the frigid predawn gloom..." Further along in the story, on page 156, Mr. Krakauer alludes/implies that imminent dangers are threatening through his descriptions of repeated accidents on Mount Everest in April-May 1996, and finally, on pages 228 and 229, there is a simile: "Boom! Boom! Two times like sound of gun..."

The point of the poem (at least at the outset) seems to be the speaker's discouragement at not having been able to write well enough about the lady's beauty. He's had writer's block. The cause was that her beauty was just too great a challenge for him to do justice to in verse. but the imagery of scaling walls might be taken more generally, as well. The final lines say that the pen, hand, and intellect are checked (restrained) and conquered (defeated) on a first attempt at something. So, if we pick our evidence selectively, you could say that this is an allegory about defeat in general. However, the very specific references to writing poetry and about the beauty of the woman in question suggests that the more specific interpretation is better

Through symbolism Walls was able to portray a deeper meaning to otherwise ordinary objects or events. She wrote, “A few days after Mom and Dad brought me home, I cooked myself some hot dogs…The neighbor lady who had driven me to the hospital was surprised that I didn’t run in the opposite direction from any fire I saw. ‘Why the hell would she?’ Dad bellowed with a proud grin. ‘She already fought the fire once and won’” (Walls 15). Fire represented hope and not giving up. Despite getting burned as a young girl, Walls was not afraid to approach fire again. This symbolized all the future challenges she would have to face, and no matter how much they would hurt her, she would rise back up. In addition, the Glass Castle that her father had envisioned represented hope and the American Dream. She explained, "Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle" (Walls 25). Even though the family was poor, they were chasing after that dream. The Glass Castle was a representation of happiness, stability, and all their worries coming to an end. It was glass because it’s fragile, and at any moment it could collapse. Symbolism played an important role in conveying ideas and

In contrast to the other two examples stated thus far, Elie Wiesel also used literary devices describing silence speaking without directly stating that it was silent. One such quote is as follows: “My throat was dry and the words were choking me, paralyzing my lips. There was nothing else to say” In this literary device Elie Wiesel is using personification of the words to describe why they cannot be spoken. Without context it could be inferred as the silence actually communicating less then words would, but that notion quickly becomes disproved by what proceeds it in the book. After this literary device, it is stated that the person he was talking to nods as if he had said everything and leaves to prepare. While it could be argued that

The poem can be interpreted as an allegory on how the war has impacted the veteran, and how the wall is not simply a wall. The allegory begins with the speaker looking at the black granite wall. There is a clear division between the actual visit and the veteran’s struggle at the wall. Since his “black face fades” into the wall, it shows that he is one with the “black granite.” He, alongside the wall, is evidence of history. He is living proof of what has happened in the war, and the names show the result of the war. To emphasize this connection, the veteran describes himself as “stone” and “flesh.” Since the veteran is still alive, he views himself as the flesh, but believes he should be the stone. Just like he is impacted by the wall, he believes that other people feel the same impact. The veteran believes this when he mentions “names shimmer on a woman’s blouse” (l. 19). The names on the woman’s blouse show, that as each individual person goes to the wall, a special connection happens between the two. It is almost like the people become one with the wall, sharing their feelings with one another. However, the connection is lost as the woman “walks away the names stay on the wall” (ll. 20-21). Once a person leaves the wall, that connection is gone. People leave and return back to “reality.” However, this is not the case with the veteran. This vision states that the veteran

metaphors are used to symbolize the turbulence in the house and how rapidly it spreads throughout the house. In line 4, “greasy stains spreading on the cloth”, the ‘greasy stains’ refer to schizophrenia and how it spreads through the family. In lines (4-6) “Certain doors were locked at night, feet stood for hours outside them…” this is a metaphor for paranoia. It could also show how family members would shut themselves off from the rest of the world. The use of diction sets up the tone of anger throughout the poem by using words such as: slammed, shouting, threats, cracking, broken and madhouse. (2) “It had begun with slamming doors..” the use of slamming shows how infuriated the family was and how they took their anger out of the house. (11) “...reconciliations, the sobbing that followed.” Reconciliations

Mayella has power because of her race, but she wouldn’t be in court if she was black and if she.

In lines 1-2, “my black face fades, hiding inside the black granite” he is speaking about how his face is literally black from the granite wall. He is also speaking how the kind of person we show to the world. We do not always show who we truly are, people only show the side of their personality that they want people to see. From these two lines, the narrator brings up the main theme of this poem. In lines 3-5, the writer is expressing his feelings or he is at least trying not to, he tries to hold back his emotions from the war. He wants to remain strong because he says, “I’m stone and flesh” He is not literally saying that he is stone but he is a person that has been through a lot and even after everything he is still alive. In lines 6-9, imagery is the only thing being used because he is only speaking about his reflection and how it relates to the granite stone. In lines 10-13, he says, “I am inside the Vietnam Veterans Memorial”. From this line, part of the narrator is still stuck at the war. He brings up light and how he wants it to make a difference. Light is symbolized for how we represent ourselves to others and the kind of person we truly are. It also plays a big part in the poem

In the short stories “Stones” and “To Every Thing There is a Season” the authors Sandra Birdsell and Alistair MacLeod both use literary devices in a similar manner in order to achieve their thematic objectives. This essay will compare the way the authors use three literary devices such as imagery, metaphor and similes in their short stories to portray the thematic objective of loss of innocence.

While reading the book “The Discovery of Poetry” by Frances Mayes, I learned a lot about figurative imagery. Figurative imagery is used throughout Edward Mayes’ poem to make connections between two ideas we typically would not associate with one another. A concrete example of figurative imagery in Mayes’ poem is found in the line that reads, “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals.” I know that these patients most likely had not been attacked by wild animals over and over again, but when the speaker plants these images in a reader’s mind, the suffering that these patients have endured become more realistic to the reader. Sometimes using figurative imagery is much more effective than using a literal image. Mayes wants readers to know how ill some of the patients are. He goes on by describing the “200 miles of scars” of a patient and how “a boy who [had] shot his face off.” Mayes’ figurative images make a stronger point because they are so blunt. He doesn’t seem to beat around the bush; he tells every detail exactly how the speaker saw it.

First I will define imagery, followed by metaphors, rhythm, structure and the importance of figurative language. Imagery is associated with mental pictures but it can be more complex than just a picture. “ The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien tells the story of each soldier by simply describing what he carries. Users of vivid description hold the readers interest. (Crossroads, p.23). Another example would be Anton Chekhov in “ Misery”, users of abstract concept in his story such as misery and a society that doesn’t care about an individual’s pain.

Symbolism is a literary device used to give an object an entirely different meaning which is deeper and more significant to the story. The supposed “daughter” of the man of the story is the man’s innocence taken from him by the men he trusted the elders and chiefs who sent him to war in the first place stripping him of the innocence he had once had forcibly. The gates are the gates of Heaven where the man was sent after his death in war to a famous warrior a place in which he awaits to open and see judgement for what he has done. “A snake has bitten my daughter” (Awoonor

Imagery is used by many writers and this is when the writer uses visually descriptive or figurative language.

We also see walls/doors as a symbol that is ensuring the isolation of the characters. Each character will be analyzed through the text first, and then I will analyze using other critics’ perspective on the issue.

The poet utilizes a metaphor of a glass door with shutters to express how he is shut out of something that is supposed to be transparent. There is also irony with this because they are trying to block him out, but he can still see them clearly.