Use Of Diction In Seraph On The Suwanee

"Now the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under a windmill that whirred..." (Bradbury

In the beginning Hurston sets up the passage by beginning with descriptive writing on the geography and placement of Sawley and it’s surrounding location. As Hurston sets the reader in the forest she characterizes it as “primitive,”, “scratchy”, and describes the plants as “scanty flowers.” On lines 5 through 17 the text says, “Waters, running

Being passionate is a characteristic one may hope to never lose. In the excerpt from South of Broad, the author uses figurative language to develop the central idea. For example, “There is a tastefulness in its gentility that comes from the knowledge that Charleston is a permanent dimple in the understated skyline, while the rest of us are only visitors” (lines 39-41). Here the author uses imagery to show that as the people come and go, the exquisite town will always be there. Throughout the excerpt, South of Broad, by Pat Conroy, figurative language is used to develop the central idea of being able to connect and love something that others find small.

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.

Willa Cather’s My Antonia and Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain are two literary works that effectively recreate the landscape of the stories they are telling. Their writing styles have a few similar characteristics, such as their word choice and their usage of visual elements; however, they take advantage of various writing elements that make their writing styles distinct, such as the use of figurative language, emotion, and rhetorical questioning.

“Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm” (Hurston pg 12). In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie mostly uses similes to emphasize on different aspects in her life. The use of similes helps the reader picture an image of a character or idea. The most important factor that an author should include in their work is the use of descriptive words. When Janie, the main character, describes her Nanny we use the simile that she provides to help paint a picture in our head.

Many sentences are missing verbs or other important words. One example includes, “what she doin coming back here in dem overhalls?” This sentence is just one of the sentences missing the word “is” after its interrogative. The colloquial diction in the townspeople’s conversation helps set up their way of speaking and social status. The usage of words like “dat” and “lak” clarify the way the the townspeople are pronouncing words. Dialogue is spelled like it is said, and these words are coming from uneducated, poor people. While reading the dialogue for the first time may cause readers to stumble through the paragraph, the spelling also forces them to focus on everything that is being said. This is also the first time dialogue is spoken in the book, setting a contrast from the eloquent diction of the

Right near the beginning the author writes “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars” which is an example of personification. This use of figurative language helps develop a gloomy mood and the fact neighborhood might be poor. Next the author writes “Father’s words like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem” which is an example of a simile. By comparing “Father’s” words to a distant thunder it makes the reader think his father is a big, strict, loud, and that the character and his father are probably in an argument. Finally, the author describes Lemon Brown’s voice as “high and brittle like twigs being broken” which is an example of a simile. By describing the voice as high and brittle it makes the reader think the voice may be from an older person who is potentially a woman. Walter Dean Myers makes great use of figurative language in the story Treasure of Lemon Brown.

The author’s diction heightens the tones that the passage portrays. Hurston plays “boisterous games” with the “village children.” Hurston was joyful because she got to play games with her childhood friends. The reader feels a sense of jubilation for Hurston’s lively youth. Hurston wants to be “meek and mild” like her sister, because she fears to become a “mealy mouthed rag doll.” Hurston has to restrain from acting like

«Wuthering Heights» is a poem written by an American poet Sylvia Plath and is based on a novel of the same name by Emily Bronte. In order to convey her internal feelings of despair and disappointment, Sylvia uses a certain tone, structure, and a number of stylistic devises. Below is a descriptive analysis of how she manages to do so, and an interpretation of a poem’s meaning stanza by stanza.

Imagery is a common form of technique used in poetry in which the author uses visualization to demonstrate a vivid scene for the readers. In the poem, “Digging”, he discusses his father’s aging figure and recreates the feeling of the passage of time by mentioning his grandfather digging in a similar fashion. When Heaney says, “Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds; Bends low, comes up twenty years away”, he is most likely referring to a past memory of his father, indicating he has passed away twenty years ago. Heaney vividly remembers his father digging, and compares his father’s digging to his own penmanship when he says at the beginning of the poem, “Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”, and at the end of the poem when he says, “Between my

The relationship between the environment and characters in literature played a large role in Victorian novels. This relationship is extremely evident in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, where Jane’s journey to freedom is reflected by her environment. However, Jane’s goal of freedom and equality symbolizes Victorian women struggling to gain these same values. According to Jennifer D. Fuller in “Seeking Wild Eyre: Victorian Attitudes Towards Landscape and the Environment in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre”, Jane’s passion for freedom is reflects the passion for freedom in Victorian women who have not achieved equality yet. Although Jane’s environmental surroundings symbolize Jane’s future, Fuller effectively asserts that the weather instead symbolizes the harsh constraints of women’s gender roles in Victorian society.

Hurston’s “Sweat” in my Research Paper because I like how the author characterized Delia Jones

The Language in the novel is simple; there are no metaphors. There are limited speeches to give no freedom to the reader to imagine the society in a less oppressive way than it

The novel is set in Yorkshire, a barren landscape in an isolated region of Northern England. The detailed descriptions of the environment allow the mood and tone of the novel to be revealed.