From the passage, “Hunting for Medicines in China”, it talks about a writer who travels deep into the mountains of China to search for a rare and special herb called, the golden hairpin. In the following paragraphs, I am going to describe how the writer involves the reader in the search for the golden hairpin by conveying how the writer builds a sense of wonder about the golden hairpin and the it’s setting, how are tension and suspense developed and the use of language.
From the first paragraph, the line, “According to legend…in order to cure a man he needed a rare and precious herb known as the golden hairpin”, the word “legend” highlights something mystic and magical, it is like something unknown because we don’t know whether it is
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While short sentence used in the line “then he disappeared” and personification used in the line “Swallowed by the clouds” further create tension and suspense because it causes us to wonder what will happen next since being “swallowed by the clouds” creates a sense of mysterious and enigmatic feel which involves the readers in the search. In addition, the use of tense involves the readers because the change of tense into present past tense throughout the passage gives a sense of immediacy which creates tension.
Furthermore, the line, “In front of me rose a tall, slender, graceful, solitary peak. It looked like one in a painting…I could hear the sound of mountain streams…the peak seemed so close, yet between us were white clouds and precipice below” adjectives “tall, slender, graceful, solitary” and simile is used to describe the peak which creates an imagery of the scene on the mountain. While the use of senses of hearing and sight further involves the readers as it gets the readers to imagine the setting.
In conclusion, the writer has described clearly about the experience of
Throughout the story, the readers are challenged while attempting to figure out what is really going, that only the writer himself knows. As the story goes on, the reader sees the foreshadowing of something coming, due to Cereno’s strange actions. However, the suspense only increases through the relationships of the characters with each other. This keeps us guessing what could possibly be happening that we don’t know. In the end, it is finally solved, and every piece intertwines together to make sense of the plot.
As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.
“a mountain/within which a cave/where was heard/a stream’s faint murmur/ and seen the mirrored glance/ of an iridescent bird’s/luminous eyes/a cave/across the ridged walls/of which gallops and flickers/a herd of elk/ and on the sandy/floor beneath the feathers of firelight” (24).
In the story, “August Heat” various acts are considered to compose it suspenseful. Therefore, the focus in which is has to generate this story shocking is the benefit of foreshadowing. To explain, these are the details given or hints which suggest events that will occur later in the plot. In partial cases, this can lead to show what awaits for a character. Consequently, as in an illustration, the text says, “There was something unnatural, uncanny, in meeting
describing the characters and objects throughout the poem and in creating the atmosphere of the
Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the
The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the
“I’d go on my two bare feet. But when, with my brother’s jack-knife, I had cut me a long limber horse with a good thick knob for a head…The willow knob with the strap jouncing between my thighs was the pommel and yet the poll of my nickering pony’s head,” says the main character. He basks in the glory of his younger years, and longs for a time when he was oblivious to all of the evils of the world. Containing many simple phrases, the structure of the poem brings an airy vibe to the mystical imagery. “My teeth bared as we wheeled and swished through the dust again. I was the horse and the rider, and the leather I slapped to his rump spanked my own behind,” reads the poem. Descriptive verbs allow the reader to see the character’s movements. The reader is able to easily understand that the character is comparing himself to his horse which he becomes one with. The poem is written in a first person point of view in which the character is within and beside
The author’s use of structural elements helps create the tension and suspense of the story. In “The Interlopers”, the author’s choice of setting helped create the idea of tension and suspense. The choice of a setting like a dark,cold winter’s night, gave the reader a feeling of something was going to happen at any given moment. The author gets the reader in an alert mood because, when a person think of it being night time and in the woods,they think off danger. After the setting was described, the author caught the reader up to speed of why the men were in the forest late at night.
Imagery is used consistently right through the poem to evoke sensory experiences and to endorse the theme. For instance: ‘A stark white ring-barked forest’-‘the sapphire misted mountains’-‘the hot gold lush of noon’ and many more. All of these appeal to the readers senses and places brilliant visual image(s) in our minds by illuminating the various features of the country, from the perspective of the poems persona. This is attained using; adjectives, ‘the sapphire-misted mountains¬¬¬’, which gives us a picture of mountains with a bluish haze embracing it, this image would thus give an impression of a composed environment and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Additionally by using ‘sapphire’ to illustrate the mist surrounding the mountains we get a sense of Australia’s uniqueness as sapphire is a rare gem. Imagery is also displayed through a metaphor used to appeal to the sense of hearing. For example: ‘the drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain’. Here Mackellar depicts the rain as an army and allows us not only to visualize but get a sense of the sound of the rain, which is presented through the adjective ‘drumming’. This line also presents to us the intensity of the rain again through the adjectives ‘drumming, steady and soaking’.
The peculiarity of the first two paragraphs is a wide usage of such stylistic devices, which author employed in order to create the tense atmosphere of a tragedy. The text under analysis is very emotive and causes the reader a sense of terror.
These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.
The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting
The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and