The key of using figurative language in writing is to illustrate to the reader a descriptive image throughout their minds during the story. During the novel‚ the main characters undergo significant changes created by vivid descriptions with Lee’s use of language. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates to the reader in his novel‚ diverse ways of using figurative language to express the ideas he is trying to convey to us. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee introduces many ways to the
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Poe shows that he mourns his lost wife‚ Lenore. All throughout the poem he uses figurative language to make memorable imagery and intrigue the reader. He uses alliteration and repetition to intensify the poem. In the beginning of the poem the narrator uses the words “rapping‚ rapping” and “at my chamber door” are repeated. The two most important words
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into words‚ thus giving order and meaning to life” (The Longman Reader‚ 13). Moreover‚ The Longman Reader reveals‚ “You might also have noted that figurative language‚ energetic verbs‚ and varied sentence patterns contribute to the essay’s descriptive power” (The Longman Reader‚ 83). Good writing communicates emotion to the reader‚ evokes figurative language‚ and uses reoccurring themes. These strategies are exemplified in stories such as: Maya Angelou “Sister Flowers‚” Gordon Parks “Flavio’s Home‚”
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tells the story of a dysfunctional marriage full of oppression and repressed resent. Chopin uses figurative language to show how Mrs. Mallard’s feeling towards her marriage develop over time. Marriages can be and how in some situations death can be preferable to living an oppressed life. When Mrs. Mallard is devastated to learn her husband’s death and she “wept with wild abandonment.” Chopin using imagery to describe creates a vivid picture of Mrs. Mallard’s mourning. Chopin foreshadows Mrs. Mallard’s
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D. Schmidt‚ the character‚ Holling‚ experiences a dull depressing time period of his life‚ his seventh grade year. The author then uses descriptive language‚ repetition‚ and symbolism to create a dreary‚ sorrowful mood. He makes Holling’s world look like there is no hope and there was no room for improvement. The author uses descriptive language to describe the dull and depressing mood of the story. For example‚ he uses a simile to illustrate the dullness of the story‚” This look came over her
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger) 1971 “Cinema and television sap and leach the narrative power away; insidiously impose their own conformities‚ their angles‚ their limits of vision; deny the existence of what they cannot capture. As with all frequently repeated experience‚ the effect is paradigmatic‚ affecting by analogy beyond the immediately seen – indeed‚ all spheres of life where a free and independent imagination matters”. That’s how John Fowles felt about new medias in 1968‚ when
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| Symbolism | Imagery | Figurative Language | Theme | Tone | Significant Passages (Pgs. 20‚ 25‚ 62‚ 63‚ 64‚ 67‚ 75) | “Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay‚ whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels‚ robed in purest white‚ so delightful to the eye of freemen‚ were to me so many shrouded ghosts…” (Douglass 63).“I at first rejected the idea‚ that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any such
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Walt Whitman in ‘Leaves of Grass’‚ uses many similar techniques throughout his poem to give off and emphasize his meaning. The three techniques that further Whitman’s meaning in my opinion are repetition‚ along with the overuse of commas and lack of use of periods‚ and alliteration. Whitman’s uses common themes from transcendentalism including body and soul‚ immortality and Whitman also talks a lot about equality. Whitman uses repetition in the beginning of certain sentences to stress his message
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character fantasizing another life for himself‚ which was both sentimental and unusual. This poem‚ formatted into free verse (meaning it does not have rhyme or a regular meter) tercets (stanzas that consist of three lines)‚ contains figurative language (language that contains or uses figures of speech) such as similes (a figure of speech that makes a comparison) and metaphors (comparisons of one thing to another without the use of like or as). “The currents pull like weeds”‚ a simile located in
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valuing his pride and ambitions more than those around him. However‚ the legacy left behind often falls short of what those people wanted to create or force them into a shell of themselves to fit current perceptions of them. In his poem‚ “Ozymandias‚” Percy Shelley offers a moral lesson on ambition and pride through the implementation of commanding diction‚ an apathetic tone‚ and situational irony to highlight the shallow nature of legacy. The commanding diction Shelley creates serves to draw in the
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