The word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement the author {Kimberly Brubaker Bradley} uses, makes the text journalistic or informal like. When the characters talk, they don't speak formally or with really bad grammar. They talk like normal people would do. Kimberly writes with little figurative language. When she does though, it is relatable to the text, and easy for younger readers to understand.…
James Maloney’s novel A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove is beautifully crafted and achingly honest exploration of the transformative power of love. Maloney uses language techniques, such as imagery, characterisation, symbolism, themes and figurative language. This entices the reader into, positions them to feel and think ways about the characters and is given to inform the reader about the character. In ABTWC Maloney has used unconditional love to express the characters inner thoughts. He uses this to meticulously craft abstruse themes and characterisations. The Ways he has shown how transformative love is through points mentioned before and through the different forms of love (conditional and unconditional). I will present ways…
The author uses Figurative Language, more specifically, Hyperbole and Metaphors, throughout the poem to reveal the theme. For example, in line four, the poet states “and there the sun burns crimson bright.” This supports the theme because it exaggerates how bright and beautiful the world would be if all were creative and tolerant. Additionally, the use of a positive language to…
It is obvious that everyone is so anticipated that even the nature itself is waiting breathlessly – “the fireflies waited in the shadows”. Human interference with nature is the main idea of this piece of writing. It is obvious that “the pencil line across the sun” is an unnatural event and it shouldn’t be there. It is an example of a simile comparing two important sources of light – the sun and electricity. The repetition of the verb “closing” in the end of the second stanza shows, that although exiting, new things are always frightening, especially in the Third…
(1) Copy a passage that you find particularly beautiful or powerful. What devices (imagery, figurative language, etc.) did the author use to make an impact on the reader?…
It’s made out of concrete. It will probably be there for hundreds of years. Thousands even. (20)…
I find it interesting on how the author employs the idea of the changing of seasons to describe life and death and happiness and sorrow. In the beginning it is still summer when the speaker and his lover are happily together and then it turned to winter, also a time associated with death and loneliness; his lover…
The poet personifies the weather which amplifies the feelings of not belonging. The seasonal reference symbolises a passing of time, approaching the “Winter” of decay and death. The season autumn is personified, and the autumn colours (brown and yellow) symbolise past – create dismal mood that hints of decaying heritage.…
The first verse summons this image of the white, immaculate clothing hanging in the sun here invoked by the lemon tree representative of sunny regions. Then, an enjambment leads quickly the reader to “in the rain”, disturbing completely the vision he had from the scene. Some of the “washing hanging from the lemon tree” also touches “the grass long and coarse”. The description of the coarse grass creates an atmosphere of discomfort.…
In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, it presents a dark view of humanity and its future. A boy and his father constantly mention the differences between “good guys” and “bad guys,” trying their best to be the “good” ones. They are living during an apocalypse that is filled with evil, but the boy manages to do good deeds. Through the boy’s goodness, McCarthy shows that good ultimately triumphs over evil.…
A metaphor is a comparison made without using the words like or as. In this example from the Cuban Poet José Martí’s “Simple Verses,” the comparison is between the sound of the wind and a song. He is saying that the wind in the trees reminds him of a beautiful song; the most beautiful. Nature is the pioneer musician, creating and inspiring ourselves.…
In “The Rider,” author Naomi Shihab Nye uses figurative language to allow readers to easily and concretely envision the both feelings of loneliness and of contentment. In the poem, a boy has told the narrator that the reason he roller-skates so fast is because he is trying to escape from his sense of loneliness. This is what the speaker is thinking about as they bicycle down the street, and it is also what they are wishing for:…
Throughout The Road, Cormac McCarthy draws a very heavy line in the sand between giving up and persevering. Very often, this line in the sand adheres to strict gender lines: while women are shown to "give up" in one form or another, the father and son who struggle down the post-Apocalyptic road tell themselves, "This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up" (). After closer reading of the text, reveals that "not giving up" is not always the lesser of two evils.…
8. Assonance- In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables.…
There are about five thousand languages throughout the world now, and that doesn’t even include the hand languages. As a matter of fact, Languages are the most powerful inventions ever. Languages are important highways that allow people to communicate within the world of different nations and cultures. Without language we wouldn’t be able to communicate with one another and spread ideas. Languages are highways that connect the past and the present. Without language there would be no way that we would ever have known what happened in the past. “Language is a highway linking all peoples and all ages. Mama was wrong to use language as a wall.” Sometimes language can be a wall that breaks the connection between the people. In contract, Many foreign use their lack of language skills as an excuse to wrap themselves up, refusing to communicate with other people. There are positive and negative sides in language, and it depends on how well you using it.…