What Is Margaret Atwood's Use Of Hyperboles In Cabin Fever

Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

Margaret Laurence does an exceptional job with her diction throughout her writing she uses very complex words and lots of descriptions to give the reader a better feel and understanding of what's going on. After reading her piece "Where the World Began" I wanted to incorporate some literary devices into my own writing because I realized using literary devices in writing makes your writing much more interesting to the reader and also gives it a better standard, however sometimes it can be extremely difficult to include these devices in your writing so you have to figure out a balance between using the right amount of literary devices and in the appropriate places in order to make an emphasis to your writing and to give the reader a better understanding as well. Also sometimes using literary devices can make it easier for the reader to connect with the author or the story so they feel as if the writing is more applicable to them. The things which I chose to mimic from Margaret Laurence include diction, metaphor, setting, imagery, allusion, sentence variety and hyperbole. Diction was mimicked throughout the whole piece by using complex words in order to give the reader a deeper understanding of the context. In the beginning, of the third paragraph diction is used to give a very detailed understanding of the cold winter. Next literary device I mimicked was the metaphor, this was used on multiple occasions one of them being where the snowball is compared to a grenade. The setting in her piece is the same prairie setting as my essay so some of her settings were used to make a connection. Imagery is used throughout the essay again on multiple occasions Margaret did this through using really descriptive words so the reader can imagine the surrounding I included this in my writing where I described the day in

This poem brought me back to my home town and the wonders and beauty that it brings around winter time, and made me nostalgic with memories of past winters with my family and slightly saddened for those who have never seen the magical ability snow has. This poem reminded me that there are people who live in states where their change in seasons is not as noticeable, as the ones that I grew up with and have come to miss. Similar to many of the romantics, natures true beauty can transform the mundane into a work of art that would never have existed

The author uses a lot of figurative language throughout the story. The forceful wind is compared to a dog shaking a rat between its teeth. As Janet tried to calm herself, the idea that a dead woman was in the basement of her house began to beat at her like a flail. The idea that she was frozen with freight was illustrated by her body being like a drawn bow. Examples of more figurative language can be found throughout the text.

First, the author used a lot of hyperboles. For example, on page 326, “ I HATE littering. I hate it when you go to a park or the beach and the day is suddenly destroyed by the arrival of The Picnic People from Hell.” This situation was exaggerated with humor to express the narrator’s hatred for littering. Another example of a hyperbole is on page 325, “They just WALK AWAY from what looks like the scene of a tragic dumpster explosion.” This quote is expressing the how big of a mess they left.

Metaphoric language is used in both works to establish tone, but the approaches differ. In Cold Mountain, Frazier uses similes to bring emphasis on different aspects of nature. For instance, the author describes the heron's legs and wings as "black as the river." This is to continue the smooth, even tone of the passage and establish that there is a continuous circle, spawning from nature and leading right back to nature. Relating the heron to another awe-inspiring aspect of nature simply elevates its divinity. Personification is also used in this passage to give the paragraphs an ironic tone. When Frazier describes the heron as "look[ing] high as a man in the slant light with its long shadow blown out across the water", he establishes a tone of irony. The heron is mocking mankind, who stands in front of nature (and supposedly above it) and allow themselves to consume it entirely. The irony continues as the heron looks as if it does not know where to step next, lost in its own conceit. This ironic tone is a laugh at mankind for being so selfish. However, in the poem, Oliver speaks in the first person narrative, as if mankind is attached to nature and can comprehend what is happening. This gives the poem a cynical tone, full of anticipated destruction and isolation. Metaphoric language adds to tone immensely.

One of the ways Capote captivates his readers is by using vivid language to make us feel joyful, giddy and excited. “My dancing shadow rollicks on the walls; our voices rock the chinaware; we giggle: as if unseen hands were tickling us” (23). Notably, the way this passage is composed gives the reader a sense of silliness as we imagine the auditory impulsively of loud singing. His whimsical language is taken a step further with his use of “…unseen hands were tickling us” (23), as it makes the reader visualize being tickled until they are out of breath. Another way he uses imagery is with, “…the beginnings of dawn splash us like cold water…” (36). This makes the reader feel as though they are being abruptly splashed with cold water. Capote wanted to grasp the urgency of waking up Christmas morning and capture the excitement of not wanting to make waste of time. Capote uses vivid language to make us feel cheerful; likewise, he also uses it to make us feel the heaviness of heartache within the household.

Along with sensory details, Rawlings’ practical use of figurative language largely helped her to win a Pulitzer Prize for her astonishing work on this novel. The figurative language used, aids in bringing life to the story through devices such as comparisons and exaggerations. For instance, on page six, the novel reads, “The bubbling spring would rise forever from the earth, the thin current was endless”. The spring cannot rise forever and the thin current can end. Here, the author uses hyperboles to exaggerate the details, and to show the importance of the ideas.Another instance, is on page two hundred and twenty four when the sound of the air is brought  up, “A great roaring sounded in the distance. All the bears in the scrub, meeting at the river, might make such a roaring”. This description uses a simile, comparing the wind roaring to the sound of a group of bears. This allows a better awareness of the degree of the noise. Rawling could have said the wind roared but by adding the detail, she creates more depth in her portrayal of Jody’s experiences. On page two hundred and twenty four there is another example of figurative language, where personification being used, “In the night, a gust of wind moved through and slammed both doors”. This is very helpful in Rawlings creating a great piece of work because it breathes life into the wind and in that moment gives the

“Those Winter Sundays” written by Robert Hayden, depicts the ungratefulness that a young boy has towards his hardworking father. Later in the poem, as he matures, he begins to realize everything his father has done for him, and his feelings suddenly change. Throughout the poem, Hayden uses numerous examples of imagery, personification, and foreshadowing to show how the speaker’s attitude regarding his father transforms from the perspective of a child to the perspective of an adult.

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker is reflecting on his past with his father, but mainly the Sunday mornings he experienced during his childhood. Throughout the poem, there also happens to be a very dark and possibly even somber tone, which is shown by using several different types of literary devices. Hayden utilizes strong imagery supported by diction and substantial symbolism comprehensively. Furthermore, there are various examples of both alliteration and assonances. The poem does not rhyme and its meter has little to no order. Although the father labors diligently all day long, and he still manages to be a caring person in his son’s life. The poem’s main conflict comes from the son not realizing how good his father actually was to him until he was much older. When the speaker was a young boy, he regarded his father as a callous man due to his stern attitude and apparent lack of proper affection towards him. Now that the son is older, he discovers that even though his father did not express his love in words, he consistently did with his acts of kindness and selflessness.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

One can suggest that Atwood has demonstrated a light and informal tone. The poem is more informal in its writing, leaning more towards intimate entertainment. In her writing, the author is able to capture the attention of her readers by giving real-life situations that one may relate to.

At the end of the argument, Proulx writes, “Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of things unsaid and now unsayable—admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears—rose around them” (Proulx 21). Proulx depicts the hopelessness of Jack and Ennis’ relationship with a simile of the surrounding nature. The vast clouds of steam that rise around the men represents the sudden surge of emotion that takeover the men. The reference to winter foreshadows the inevitable fall of their relationship, as winter typically “represents a time of hopelessness and despair” in literature (Richards-Gustafson). Adding on, the “years of things unsaid and now unsayable” solidifies the tragic fate of the men’s relationship in how the men will never be able to say what they wanted to say to each

Within “Winter, Frontal Lobe,” Brecken Hancock shares grief, as well as deteriorated mental health steaming from the authors mother. Sorrow and depression due to the mental distance of a loved one can be shown through the tone and mood used by the author. Hancock uses a guilty and desperate tone corresponding with dark and dreary diction. This aspect results from the sadness and hopelessness that Hancock projects to us about the devastating illness that is slowly taking her mother's life. Hancock describes dark hair as “blighted” (1) to represent the devastation, disruption, and infection felt by not only the hairs on top of heads but rather the cells decaying in heartbroken bodies. Dark hairs belonging to “slighted bodies [that] blob up” (5). The author shows her repulse by speaking of the bodies without proper respect and attention. Hancock describes her hand as “cauterized” (7) in which infection and illness of physical wounds may be healed yet mental illness may