The Speaker's Daughter Figurative Language Summary

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

Kate Chopin, a renowned 17th century writer, gained posthumous fame for her unorthodox literary techniques and her controversial themes. Her work often broached the topics of gender roles, women’s sexuality, and white privilege, yet, it remains relevant today. “Désirée’s Baby” contains many of the same features that characterize other works by Chopin, including the use of surprise endings. Through deep analysis of “Désirée’s Baby,” the reader better grasps Kate Chopin’s foreshadowing the story’s O. Henry ending, otherwise known as a surprise ending, of Armand’s racial heritage and Desiree’s death, through the use of symbolism, characterization, figurative language, and elements of surprise, and ultimately provides the reader with a relatively

Parents cling to their children wanting them to stay young forever, wanting endless memories and nothing to change, yet they must be able to part from these feelings to allow the child to grow. In the story “A Private Talk with Holly”, the author, Henry Felsen, uses symbolism to convey the central idea that if you love someone you have to let them go. When Holly, the main character of the story, talks to her Dad about changing her plans, he is faced with a difficult decision, but in the end he allows Holly to chase her dreams for her own good.

In this passage, Prose gives the reader his feelings and attitude towards nature. Giving off the impression that she has respect and dedication for it. She releases a positive message towards the subject and believes that it is a necessity for life. Throughout this passage the author uses effective figurative language and imagery. Nature can only be seen and felt by certain people. And when they are able to see nature it is a blissful and tranquil image. The wilderness has much more to offer than is the streets.

Paulo Coelho once said “Don't waste your time on explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” The quote said by Paul Coelho connects to the story as a mood of a life lesson within the main character (narrator) that goes through major struggles throughout their life of trying to keep their mother satisfied with their actions. The mood shows how each thing changes throughout time and more. In the story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan, the author uses figurative language and descriptive language to develop the mood of the story.

The way and words used to tell a story determine how the story will be perceived. If the story uses lots of details, diction, and figurative language then it will be most likely a well told story. Although if a story is not told with these things it can be hard to interpret what is trying to be said. In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”,uses all these things to tell an amazing story with a plot that could go anywhere. The author, James Hurst, of “The Scarlet Ibis” illustrates diction and figurative language to prove that the tone is hope, discouragement, and pride.

being severed by white sealers as they tried to save themselves from drowning. Figurative language and the overall tone of the poem illustrate the gloom and sadness surrounding the event: “shadows” and “darkness”. The landscape made up of “low hills”, ”the silver-grey wash of clouds” and “the steel-shining channel” reflects this dark mood. Reference to black crows, hectoring and descending, eyes being pecked, conjures images of cold-blooded, inhumane slaughter and “filaments of sinew”. Harwood’s typical use of the sonnet form is not employed here but experiments with rhyme and metre, in the form of free verse, evident in many of her later poems. Run-on lines and stanzas add to the narrative style of the poem, best read out loud. Although the

Horrid times can bring out the finest in many. These times often include some of the bloodiest wars in history such as the Civil War. A side product of this is music. Accordingly, the Civil War created many amazing music pieces. Examples of these pieces include Bonnie Blue by Harry Macarthy for the south and Shiloh by Darryl Worley. One thing that many Civil War songs that is prevalent is they’re stories.

1. Figurative Language: As Eric Schlosser is introducing Carl N. Karcher in the opening pages of the novel; he refers to his life as a tale by Horatio Alger, growing from modest upbringings, to establish a fast food empire. This quote uses an allusion to the talented author of Horatio Alger whose works often revolve around working middle class fighting adversity to become wealthy, which is the fulfillment of the American dream. Karcher’s life resembles a real life story that can be illustrated by Alger in one of his works comparing his upscale to greatness by pioneering ideas changing the way Americans eat and live.

Death is a natural process that creeps into everyone’s lives at one point. Ready or not, the process of losing a loved one is an oppressive sense of despair. Grief is a natural response to the loss of a loved one. It is numbing and can take a vast toll on a person. How someone “formulates or represents the past shapes their understanding and views of the present” (House). The process of grief in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter is displayed by characterization, figurative language, symbolism, and flashback.

I think the poem is symbolic of the place they currently live and she assures her daughter not to fear because there are no people who will scare them in Saskatoon, their new home.

In Native Son by Richard Weight, Wright characterizes Bigger through his use of simile and repetition to convey a fierce tone.

Through the use of figurative language, imagery, and symbolism Robert Browning is able to portray his poem about the Duke in the light he wants. The several literary devices used in figurative language aid in he conversational flow, while the imagery gives you the sense of what emotion is going at the time, and symbolism showing the underlying use for the subjects mentioned throughout the poem. The several literary devices most predominantly used in the poem are assonance and alliteration. For example, “the depth and passion of its earnest glance…” is an example of assonance used in the poem as well as“And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst.”

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.

literary texts, in particular, poetry, can evade translation through their culture-specific and figurative language, as well as language origin. It will also explain how other texts, particularly non-fiction, lend themselves more easily to translation due to the literalness they contain, enabling the original to be brought over to a new language more or less word-for-word. This essay will argue that, whilst the use of figurative language in literary texts is more resistant to translation, the use of a suitable translator and translation method ensures that most are in fact translatable.