Tuesdays With Morrie Figurative Language

“Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written.

The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926, won Hughes his first poetry prize. Hughes is a well-known African American poet who often wrote about the struggles for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, he uses figurative language in the poem to describe loneliness and despair, and the relationship between the speaker and performer, in order to make the reader better understand the blues.

In Ann Petry’s novel, The Street, the wind and the city come alive through Petry’s use of personification, imagery, and figurative language. The wind is bullying the people on the streets and Lutie Johnson is one of them. Lutie just moved to the city and is looking for a place to stay but the wind is trying to keep her out.

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.

Richard Connell uses figurative language to describe the mood and the tone because he wants us to the reader to know the character feeling and the emotion they are going to. Also the attitude the character gives in a situation. So Richard Connell uses figurative language to show the mood and the tone. For example “Rainsford and his friend Whitney are sailing in the middle of the night so dark that it look like moist black velvet.” The mood that Rainsford is calm. Another example is “Rainsford's impulse was to hurt himself down like a panther.” He is being compared to the panther. The mood is angry and the tone is aggressive. This is how Richard Connell uses figurative language to describe the mood and the tone.

What is a world with actual stability and perfection? In Brave New World, the author,

While at the movies, it was one of the main scenes they wanted to see.

At the time of the scene, Mitch starts thinking about his career and what he wants to do: “ “Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.” (4) This shows that life embodies many difficult and uncomfortable situations. Mitch is skeptical about what his career path will be portraying that life can lead one down many uneasy situations, but Morrie has trained Mitch in to the right mindset.

Morrie tries to instill in Mitch that the little things in life are important. Conversations, nature, laughing, and friends are what make life worth living. One can see as the novel progresses that Mitch gains value in this lesson. Mitch does not burry himself in work for his company, but he finds true meaning through the project he develops with Morrie. The visits with Morrie, gaining information, and writing Morrie's lessons become important.

The use of figurative language in the novel of Thirteen Reasons Why help to communicate the theme of the book by allowing the author, Jay Asher demonstrates what the character is through. By using figurative language the character can express all the emotions she has kept bottled up inside. She can finally let out all the melancholy, rage, and all weight that was on her chest. By revealing the readers her story, Asher can teach the readers that words that you choose to say and words that you choose to believe can damage more than physically hurting a human being. To prove this statement, Asher uses a metaphor saying, “it’s a knife in my back because you would rather believe some made-up rumor than what you knew to be true” (page.68). Yes she

In this quote, alliteration was used by repeating the letter A in constant sound 5 times. This figurative language was used to describes his characterization quality.

We were all taught about similes and metaphors at school: figurative language that allows us to not only read about something, but to help create a picture in our head. For example, the phrase ‘her eyes were blue’ is very plain and to-the-point. ‘Her eyes were as bright as stars’ makes them seem bright, welcoming, sparkling. ‘She had stars for eyes’ is much more vivid, even though technically it says the same thing.

Morrie teaches Mitch that a lot of people go through life only focused on success and getting things done before they die. This is showed in a story that Morrie tells Mitch about the story of a wave in the ocean. The wave was so focused on crashing he didn’t realize that he still had plenty of ocean around him. While learning this Mitch come to realize that he was one of those people. Instead of following his dreams he followed the money.

As Lady Margaret sailed grievingly down the river, she ....................(verb) ................. (adverb)................................. (your choice of phrase)

Although Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and African Americans were instilled with great purpose, they still struggled to lay claim to their freedom due to the unwillingness of the South to let go. This physical struggle was represented in Johnson's poem “O Southland!” The poem begins with the speaker being sympathetic towards the African American race and asking Southland a series of rhetorical questions. The repetition of “O Southland! O Southland!” at the beginning of each stanza makes the speaker’s tone seem pleading (“Southland” 1.1). The speaker asks if Southland has not heard news about the “watchword,” “hope-word,” or new “gospel” about equality for all men (“Southland” 1.5,7). Additionally, the speaker