Pulitzer Prizes are given out yearly in 21 categories. After entering you are at tough competition with the best of the best, trying to win the award. Whatever category you may competing for your work has to be the best. After all the hard work and winning one, the feeling you have is great and you feel so accomplished. The Yearling written by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel. In 1939 Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize because of her great way of writing by incorporating sensory details, figurative language, and syntax for effect. First, sensory details, in which make the novel so good, are used all throughout the novel. For example on page 7 paragraph one the sensory detail, sight is used. “He looked up into the soft …show more content…
One type of figurative language used is personification which can be found all throughout the reading. On page 225 in the first paragraph, “A second wind seemed now to reach long muscular fingers through the wall of rain and scoop up everything in its path.” Using this personification makes the reader feel like they are there because it gives such an effect when you read it. Another type of figurative language found in the book is hyperboles. One strong hyperbole can be found on page 6 paragraph two, “The bubbling spring would rise forever from the earth the thin current was endless.” Using the two words forever and endless are both exaggerations which everyone knows is false but using them digs up the feelings of the reader. A final example of figurative language is the use of metaphors. Found on page 6 paragraph three is a strong metaphor, “He moved a stone that was matching its corners against his sharp ribs and burrowed a little, hollowing himself a nest for his hips and shoulders.” He is not actually in a nest but instead his bed. The metaphor nest for the meaning bed portrays a vivid image into the reader's mind. Using figurative language in The Yearling is another reason why Rawlings novel won a Pulitzer
“A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.” - Henry Brooke. This quote mimics Mark Aiello’s poem, comparing the first chapter of a book to someone’s childhood, or first chapter of life. Also like the quote, his poem explains how the first chapter of a book is very pleasurable, but it does not last long until the disturbing plot comes into play. Mark Aiello’s poem, “Chapter One”, is very literally about the first chapter of a novel. Furthermore, Aiello’s use of figurative language allows the reader to interpret the poem in numerous ways beyond the main idea. While analyzing the poem, the reader is permitted to compare the first chapter of a book to
A Pulitzer Prize is an award for an achievement in American journalism, literature, or music. Paul Gigot, chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board, described the award as a “proud and robust tradition”. How does one carry on this robust tradition? By mastery of skilled writing technique, one can be considered for the awarding of this prize. Since its creation in 1917, 13 have been awarded annually, one of which, in 1939, was given to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for her novel, The Yearling. Rawlings is an American author from Florida known for writing rural themed novels. Consequently, The Yearling is about a boy living on a farm who adopts an orphaned fawn. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings procured a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her effectual use of figurative language, sensory details, and syntax.
Tatiana de Rosnay used different literary tools to assist her writing in order to deepen the story, including figurative language, dramatic irony, and foreshadowing. The use of figurative language helps to clarify a description in order to place an image in the mind of the reader. Similes are the main type of figurative language used throughout Sarah’s Key, allowing the reader to see what is happening. Many images conjured up make comparisons as a child would make them, as much of the story concerns the innocence of a child, such as “[t]he oversized radiators were black with dirt, as scaly as a reptile” (Rosnay 10) and “[t]he bathtub has claws” (Rosnay 11). Other descriptions compare Sarah, and Zoe, to a puppy, a symbol of innocence, as children are known to be
The Lovely Bones’s combination of themes work together to expose the raw emotion of a family in pain over the death of a precious loved one. The first and most significant theme to be presented in the novel is that of mortality. Throughout the novel, as Susie looks back over her violent death and its effects on her family, she makes a point that when someone dies, that person's desires and needs pass over with them into the afterlife (Thomas). For example, from watching her sister and Ruth Connor, she realizes that the concept of love is something she still wishes she could have, even in heaven. Her sister Lindsey meets a boy by the name of Samuel, and Ruth grows closer to Susie's first real crush, Ray Singh. These observations by Susie almost
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - J.R.R Tolkien
In this poem called “Creatures” by the author Billy Collins there are three examples of figurative language helps convey the meaning that the author Billy Collins is conveying. The three examples of figurative language that the author Billy Collins uses are a metaphor, enjambment, and imagery. These three examples of figurative language help illustrate Billy Collins” theme in this poem called “Creatures” that he is writing because these three examples of figurative language help emphasize the theme of the poem. These three examples help emphasize this poem called “Creatures” meaning because it makes the theme of this poem have a deeper meaning. The theme of the author Billy Collins poem called “Creatures” is that the reader has to imagine
What do people usually do after somebody has died, bury them or stuff the body to preserve them? In the story, “The Landlady” a 17-year-old businessman, Billy Weaver, came to a city called, “Bath” and stumbled on a sign that said, “BED AND BREAKFAST.” Hypnotized by the sign suddenly Billy went into the boarding house, rang the bell, and immediately a lady appeared. Roald Dahl uses sensory details, and figurative language to manipulate the mood of the text in the story, “The Landlady.”
In the story The Stolen Party, Liliana Heker shows symbolism, figurative language, and irony. Rosaura could not understand the differences between the rich and the poor. She was accepted by the rich family and was friends with their daughter, Luciana. Even though her mom told her that they only accepted her as a maid and nothing else. Nevertheless, she was eager to go to the party and decided to go with excitement. Symbolism, figurative language, and irony are expressed in the story and play an important role because it tells us the difference between the upper class and the lower class.
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by O’Connor Figurative language is used often by the characters, especially the grandmother who manipulates, which in return, leads to the families murder. In the short story the author gives small details of almost every character. When the author describes the mother’s face, she uses a simile writing, whose face is broad and innocent as a cabbage(pg 296). On the family drive, the author uses imagery to describes the beauty of the families surrounding using words like brilliant red and green lace-work that makes the drive seem relaxing.The author’s use of informal diction helps dictate the calmness of the events. I believe these calming words are the way the author is portraying the calm before the storm. What
In “Queens, 1963”, the speaker narrates to her audience her observations that she has collected from living in her neighborhood located in Queens, New York in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The narrator is a thirteen-year-old female immigrant who moved from the Dominican Republic to America with her family. As she reflects on her past year of living in America, she reveals a superb understanding of the reasons why the people in her neighborhood act the way they do towards other neighbors. In “Queens, 1963” by Julia Alvarez, the poet utilizes diction, figurative language, and irony to effectively display to the readers that segregation is a strong part of the American melting pot.
In the novel, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, he describes parts of his war experiences through the stories told throughout the book. O’Brien discusses the gory detailed chaos of the Vietnam war and his fellow “soldiers.” As O’Brien gives detail of the his “fictional” experiences, he explains why he joined the war. He also describes a time where his “character” wanted to escape a draft to Canada.
Lastly, Marie Howe language and use of figurative language was excellent throughout the book. In “Practicing”, Howe’s syntax and phrasing describes naïve children and they were preteens at the time. She uses the terms “girls” and “parent’s house” which shows that they are still not old enough to own their own property. The line “did on the floor in the basement of somebody’s parents’ house” also indicates their age because they are in a secluded place to do something that is not age appropriate in the eyes of the parents. Howe uses a simile to compare one of the girls’ basement to a “boat with booths and portholes”. The booths represent kissing stands so there was a lot of making out. Boats are on the water and the portholes are implying that
In the story the author does include figurative language like metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, allusion, and simile.
emotions and subtle nuances provided by the author in the book, and many of the deeper feelings and emotions therein are missed entirely, or touched on much too briefly
The aesthetic criteria used in John Leonard’s review places an interest in form and content of the novel. Leonard’s criteria seems unafraid of reading