Use Of Figurative Language In Mississippi Solo By Eddy Haris

If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin, is a story about a man who has been falsely accused of a crime, simply because he does as doesn’t conform to the white society’s expectations of him. As Hans F. Hanson says, “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” By putting Fonny, one of the story’s main protagonists, in the position where he has to defy the expected standards of society, Baldwin is able to achieve his purpose of creating an honest but brutal story that displays his character’s courage to not accept life’s circumstances and “join the crowd,” and instead carve his own path for his life, which results in many troubles that Fonny is forced to endure as he gives everything he has

Personification is used more often than one may think, or perhaps one may use it and not even know that they are. There Will Come Soft Rains uses personification very frequently, which is a form of figurative language that gives any object human traits. For example, “The morning house lay empty,” (Bradbury 471) is one of many uses of personification, but in

However, a poem could be written without personification and still be great. In this poem the speaker states, “season when the young buttercups and daisies climb up on the mulched bodies of their forebears to wave their flags in the parade” (1096). This stanza is personification because it talks about the buttercups and daisies climbing up. This line of the poem also reminds the reader of soldiers marching in a parade.

effective because it allows the reader to envision the workspace. “Grammar is not just a pain in

In his memoir, Mississippi Solo, Eddy Harris’s character traits become very clear to the reader. From what I infer, Eddy Harris’s style is easy-going. His style is very informative. In the lines, he shares many personal feelings with the reader, and talks to them much of the time. “If you only get sunshine, someone said, you end up in a desert.” (lines 4-5 pg 137) He shares personal quotes, and talks to the reader, as if in real life. He uses figurative language, sentence fragments, and descriptive language to show the story’s true meaning.

Personification is when non humans are given human characteristics. In An American Childhood, Dillard used any examples of personification. For instance, Dillard stated, “The walls squeaked, the pipes knocked, the screen door trembled, the furnace banged, and the radiators clanged. The walls, pipes, screen door, furnace, and radiators are not humans (17). Even though they are not living the author gave them human characteristics to make the book more interesting. There were many examples of personification in that sentence, which catches the eye of many readers.

Personification 1: “She was what Nova Scotions called a Cape Island boat and was designed for the small inshore fishermen haddock and hake” (MacLeod, 2) The author uses personification to show that the boat acts an important role in the narrator’s family, just like one of his family

Mark Twain describes his adventures as a riverboat pilot and sees the river he rides on as a book at first. However, the more experienced he gets with his job, the more acquainted with the river he becomes and he takes off the nostalgia blocking visor and sees the river for what it really is- a subtle, deadly

The author uses many poetic elements throughout the story for example when the poet states “blue smoke layered like gunfire”This is and example of figurative language know as simile because the poet is comparing the

The first simile is in the first paragraph. In the first paragraph there is a sentence saying “Their wives chirping or snapping like fuzzball hand dogs hidden behind black porch screens” (Bradbury 1). The simile compares the men's spouses to fuzzball hand dogs due to how they were conversing with each other. This identifies with the claim since this gives one piece of the puzzle of what is happening in the story. The confirmation gives a comparison influencing us to feel that there is something important going on in this town. The next simile has been spotted in paragraph two.

In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the author uses the literary device personification to convey the islands features and how lively it appears. “Little breezes crept over the polished waters,” this part of the passage that describes personification is describing the island and their surroundings. The author uses many examples like this in the passage to illustrate the view of the island how the boys experience it. In addition to the personification, the author shows many signs of symbolism, “Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand.” This quote can be interpreted as a symbol for freedom due to the fact that he took off his shirt, which resembled social restraints from his previous place.

An example of personification is “ The dust did a scoop itself like hands.” The wind blew the dust and dirt off the ground. This is a sign that some kind bad weather is about to happen. The dust did not actually scoop itself so that is why this is personification.

The next literary device used in this short story is personification. Personification shows in the text, "The trees which were already brown and beginning to tremble with a wintery shave." The passage indicates personification because trees do not tremble. Because of this representation, Maupassant is trying to explain what the season and the surroundings are like as well as its effect on the setting.

In “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck, the author utilizes personification to help the reader visualize an event of the story and provides a metaphor to help the understanding of the story. A piece of personification surfaces when the genial villagers come spilling out to participate in the joyous event of Kino finding new wealth and fortune by selling the pearl. As Kino and his neighbors head out to travel to town, “The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children” (Steinbeck 45). Shortly thereafter, Steinbeck applies a metaphor to clearly paint a picture when the greed of the pearl forces Kino to metamorphose into a savage animal. When transforming, “He [is] an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he [lives] only to preserve himself

The first being the repeated, “stress is in love with me” in line sixteen. Next the author gives stress the ability to be “teasing and pleading” in line nineteen. Since stress can not talk or move around to tease the narrator, this is a personification. Another example of personification follows in the line twenty, “asking and begging”. This is similar to the personification in line nineteen because once again, stress is unable to talk or therefore beg.