Sarah Orne Jewett uses figurative language‚ tactile and organic imagery‚ and captivating diction to transform a girl’s climb up a tree into a quest leading to triumph and wonder 1. Jewett uses figurative language to dramatize the adventure Sylvia is on to make the story more than an ordinary climb in a tree. a. “and held like a bird’s claws to the monstrous ladder reaching up up up….” Through simile‚ jewett compares Sylvia to a bird clutching the tree. author includes this to show bravery and
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Natural Imagery in Macbeth In the play Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses a lot of natural imagery. He does this for a number of reasons. To portray the mood at the time‚ foreshadow important events‚ or portray his thoughts clearly and get the right message across to his readers. In Elizabethan times animals resembled the natural order of nature. We are often presented with animal imagery in Macbeth which illustrates the disruption of the natural order caused by the events unfolding in the play. There
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In her short story “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin portrays a woman – “young‚ with a fair‚ calm face‚ whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength” – dealing with the death of her husband. Chopin laces the story with imagery – sounds‚ smells‚ sights‚ and sensations – to highlight contrasting traits of Mrs. Mallard’s experience for the reader. Chopin waits until Mrs. Mallard receives the news of her husband’s death before showcasing her visual exposition. “When the storm of grief
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Mrs. Mallard‚ from “The Story of An Hour” is known to have heart trouble from the commencement of the story. Symbolism‚ allegory‚ imagery and irony are displayed throughout Kate Chopin’s story. Josephine‚ Mrs. Mallard’s sister‚ slowly informs her that her husband had passed in a railroad mishap. She experiences many feelings at once‚ but settles on the feeling of freedom. Unfortunately‚ Mrs. Mallard’s husband walks through the door‚ causing her to suddenly pass from heart trouble. Kate Chopin
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Because Dante’s Inferno centers on one man’s journey through Hell‚ the author’s imagery invites readers to tag along to experience the horrific guided tour. Immediately‚ the author informs implicitly positions Dante as a proxy for mankind when he says‚ “Midway along the journey of our life …I wandered off from the straight path” (67) and later says‚ “How I entered there I cannot truly say‚ I had become so sleepy…when I first strayed‚ leaving the path of truth…”(67). Within these lines‚ Christian
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Fantastic Future‚” Ashlee Vance uses rhetorical devices to help tell the story of Elon Musk; however‚ imagery stands out the most. Throughout the book‚ Vance’s use of imagery is very prominent and advances Musk’s goal of revolutionizing humanity and the world. Since much of his work is physical (as opposed to mental)‚ imagery is an extremely effective device in describing his successes and failures. Thus‚ imagery allows the reader to get a clear picture of what the writer is trying to describe. When Vance
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Setting: The setting of the book Ungifted takes place in two very different schools attended by Donovan Curtis. Donovan’s first school was Hardcastle Middle school‚ a typical middle school environment like Franklin Township School‚ with standard classes and normal students. But Hardcastle Middle School has a gym with a huge hole in the floor thanks to Donovan Curtis. Without thinking he knocked over the Atlas statue and its globe crashed into the gym. Donovan’s second school was The Academy. This
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Imagery of Oedipus the King All good works of writing use imagery to give the reader a sense of realness and reality to their stories. Imagery in literature is defined as the formation of mental pictures or images in likeness of things. Oedipus the King uses the imagery of light and darkness throughout the entire play. Generally‚ we perceive light as goodness and truth and darkness and bad and evil. Oedipus the King is a play full of imagery based on light and darkness. When Oedipus dedicates
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In Bruce Weigle’s “Snowy Egret‚” he uses violence imagery to show that when one feels determined to try to become a man‚ he may make poor decisions and be forced to deal with the consequences. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker finds his neighbor’s boy‚ bawling and holding a shotgun that belonged to his father. Without his father’s permission‚ the boy had “lifted his father’s shotgun.” (1) The boy steals the shotgun during the middle of the night. The “lifted” shotgun represents a physical
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Blood Imagery in Macbeth Imagine a war without guns‚ missiles‚ or bombs. A war with swords‚ daggers‚ and arrows. A war with blood‚ gallons and gallons of blood flooding the battlefields. Set in eleventh century Anglo-Saxon Scotland‚ this would be the typical battle scene in Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy‚ Macbeth. In Macbeth Shakespeare presents a bloody tale of an age-old struggle for power when Macbeth‚ the play’s protagonist‚ and his wife plan to kill Duncan‚ Scotland’s current beloved king‚ after
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