The Black Walnut Tree Figurative Language

For instance, when Rose Mary left a piano outside, she expressed that “Most pianists never get the chance to play in the great out-of-doors” (33), or, when Jeannette told Rose Mary that she cannot live happily being vagrant, Rose Mary told her, “Why not? Being homeless is an adventure” (161). Therefore, the Joshua tree’s management to stay alive through turbulent climate compares and symbolizes Rose Mary’s optimistic character. When life threw lemons towards the Joshua tree in the form of wind and sand, the Joshua tree made lemonade by creating a mutualistic connection amongst itself and nature by growing sideways. The life of the Joshua tree points out how good always outshines bad which is what made it “one of the most beautiful trees [Rose Mary] had ever seen” (21) due to the way it continued to flourish in spite of the hindrances it has overcome, thus alluding to the hopeful and trusting personality Rose Mary

Often, an author uses figurative language to build upon the story and to create a more meaningful message. The text,“A Private Talk with Holly” uses symbolism to express the main idea that

The mood of the speaker changes to guilt as the speaker and her mother realize they would "crawl" with "shame" and leave an "emptiness" in their father's heart and yard. The author negatively connotes "crawl," "shame," and "emptiness" to invoke a more serious and shameful tone. The beginning of the conveyed a more matter-of-fact and pragmatic tone, but changes into a more sentimental one by the end to convey family is more important than the money. The symbol of the tree represents the family, and connects it to their father's hard work and dedication to the family. If they were to cut it down, it would be symbolic of their betrayal. Imagery of the tree is used to describe the freedom and beauty of the tree as it "swings through another year of sun and leaping winds, of leaves and bounding fruit." The tree represents their family bond and how strong it is even through the "whip-crack of the mortgage."

Hirshfield writes this poem in second person to give life to the poem so that the poem speaks to the reader. The poem starts by accusing the reader of letting the redwood grow near the house. “It is foolish” (line 1) lets the reader know that nature should not be growing this close to your home. Hirshfield takes the liberty to talk straight to the reader through the speaker in telling them that it is nonsense to let nature be so close to a material object such as a house. The reader can visually see a “young redwood// grow next to a house” (line 2, 3). The tree starts to symbolize the beauty of nature growing against the materialistic world.

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

As the story progresses the woman’s cravings reach a point at which she desired some bark from the Great Tree. However as stated before in the passage, “the tree was not supposed to be marked or mutilated by any of the beings who dwelt in the Sky World”. “The women decided that she wanted some bark” proving that she made a conscious choice to violate the rules. This is a representation of how the Iroquois view women. How dare she, as a woman, decide to do anything without the authorization of a man. When she asked her husband to retrieve the bark he denied her request,

The Bean Trees there are many themes but one of them could be “The Shared Burden of Womanhood”. This book is like many others, all moves around the same theme and literary devices that we use today. Most of them have the same concept. In “The Bean Tress” and “The Sun Rises” symbolism and figurative language is used.

In the beginning, the pear tree symbolizes Janie’s yearning to find within herself the sort of harmony and simplicity that nature embodies. However, that

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

People were rude and cruel to them, the town didn’t like new people. Their mission was to destroy the tree and collect three golden apples. This sounded simple to them, but soon they would find out this was much harder than expected. The tree could talk and it had a forever low face, it was as grumpy cruel and rude as all the people in the town were. The tree created all of the misery, pain and war in the world. They arrived at the tree it was the biggest tree in the world, it was treated as one of the gods because no one had the courage to destroy it and it was about as old as the

The poem reads:”So the black walnut tree/swings through another year/of sun and leaping winds,/of leaves and bounding fruit,/and, month after month, /the whip-crack of the mortgage.” The mortgage could be solved by selling the tree and as demonstrated above the tree’s not something that could be considered beneficial to the narrator's family, so why does the author hold on? Document 2 has something to say on the subject:”Oliver would rather prefer to see herself in a worse position in terms of monetary status and her own material possessions than see the tree removed. In a sense, she places the tree’s life and the importance of not besmirching the land that her fathers have worked on over her own life. ”(Document 2)

Julia and Jackson’s family lived out in the countryside with a far-reaching forest connected to their backyard. Their parents often reminded them to not play in the forest for fear that they get lost, but this never swayed the

Also, the personification of the trees “running up high” and “hugging the bank” (106) embodies how rooted and vast nature is. Inversely, when rivalled to the environment, the insignificance of humans is symbolized when the “little steamboat” (106) seems to be enveloped by the “massive, immense” (106) wilderness. The desperateness and dirtiness associated with the images of “a sluggish beetle crawling” (106) towards its destination and the “begrimed steamboat” (106) creeping upriver also seem to epitomize the powerlessness of

After analyzing the five sections beginning with “My House” and “Household Apples” we can infer that the entire story is about people longing for love and looking for a life that’s always blossoming and full of hope, only to find this dream dashed. In fact, we can infer this from the recurring themes and images that are portrayed throughout these sections. Like, the images of the trees and how the narrator describes them as not only beautiful but also as if they present a sense of endless opportunities. This idea is dashed though in the “Household Apple 's” section when the man failed to spray the trees to prevent bugs from swarming them and the fruit they were grew. “They [flies] were everywhere the fruit was: in the tree still-apples like a hive for them-or where the fruit littered the ground, squashing itself as you stepped...there was no help for it. The flies droned, feasting on the sweet juice. No one could go near the trees; I could not climb;” (Gass 17). The man can no longer climb the tree like he once did in which he saw the country sail away from him, and figuratively speaking the span of opportunities presented to him. Thus, the flies consuming the trees and preventing anyone from going near them is used to illustrate the end of these endless opportunities, of hope.

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony.