“Figurative language adds pizzazz. It raises work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” Authors use figurative language in their writing in many ways. Some authors, like Walter Dean Myers, the author of The Treasure of Lemon Brown can develop the mood and setting through descriptive adjectives and figurative language. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown, the author uses descriptive adjectives to help describe the setting and introduce a mood. In the beginning of the story the author writes, “Graffiti -scarred building to the grim shadows.” The author does this to set the grim and dark mood by using the adjectives scarred and grim. These adjectives describe the setting and make the reader feel almost fearful because of the way …show more content…
One example is when Walter Dean Myers wrote this simile, “The voice high and brittle like dry twigs being broken.” This simile helps to show the reader that the person coming up to Greg wasn’t big or strong, he is not intimidating. Another example of a simile in The Treasure of Lemon Brown is, “Father's words like the distant thunder in the streets of Harlem still rumbled in his ears.” This simile helps the reader understand Greg's father, the way his tone is described makes the reader believe Greg's dad is a big, strict parent. Furthermore this simile also helps the reader understand Greg's feelings, the “thunder still rumbling” helps the reader understand that Greg’s father's words are loud and repeating in his head. Another example of figurative language in The Story of Lemon Brown is when the author writes in personification, “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.” In this case the personification is used to help describe the setting. The fact that bits of paper were flying around the place probably means that Greg does not live in the nicest of neighborhoods. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown, the author uses figurative language to develop settings and characters. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown, Myers used figurative language and descriptive language to develop the mood, setting and characters
Figurative language and and good word choices. Gregory uses good word choices when he says, “ People can be classified according to the personality and similarity to these ingredients .” Then he uses good figurative language when he says, “ I am like the chunky peanut butter. Although I may not be as showy as the jelly or as visible as the bread,
The author of Red Umbrella and the author of A Band-Aid For 800 Children both use figurative language, such as in Red Umbrella the use a hyperbole ‘’My head spun. Leave Cuba? Tomorrow?’’ this shows that Lucy is confused or overwhelmed about having to leave her parents. As well in A Band-Aid For 800 Children the author used a metaphor ‘’Every child is also a job” to show that Sandigo has a task that that she
A good example would be when the mother in the story talks about her life using a metaphor of a staircase. In the beginning of the poem, the mother says, "Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, [...] But all the time, I’se been a-climbin’ on" (Hughes lines 1-9). This metaphor describes the mother's life experience, the reader can infer was hard, but the nice part of this excerpt is the final lines, where the metaphor of continuing to climb on the staircase is used to symbolize the mother's goal to persevere, no matter how tough life gets because she believes her efforts will accomplish something good.
In this short, but charming story, Amy Tan uses imagery to bring the story to life. With figurative language, the reader is immersed into the Chinese culture and can better relate to the characters. Tan main use of imagery is to better explain each character. Often instead of a simple explanation, Tan uses metaphors, similes, or hyperboles to describe the person, this way they are more relatable and their feelings better understood.
Figurative language includes metaphors, similes and
Figurative language is used in a lot of writings to pull you more into the words. Figurative language uses the five senses to place a deep picture in your mind of what is actually happening. Metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, etc. are all figurative devices used in writing. Without using any of these things writing would be straight forward and not so complicated to understand. When figurative language is used it makes the reader really think about what is being said by the author and what point the author is trying to make. Both "The Iroquois Constitution” and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” use figurative language but for different reasons.
Metaphors and Similes are often used in this story, so the reader has a better image of the setting, this is something, and I find Connell did incredibly well, for instance when he refers to the darkness of the night like moist black velvet, the sea was as flat as a plate-glass and it was like trying to see through a blanket.
One of the literary devices that the author uses are metaphors. There are many examples of metaphors in the novel however there are a few that were rather intriguing. Racism was an obstacle that many characters were affected by and the author uses metaphors to illustrate the rough period in their lives. An example of a metaphor in the novel was the concurrence that Uncle Willie encounters with
The first type of figurative language Pat Mora used that I would like to touch on is metaphors. “The family story says your voice is the voice of an aunt in Mexico, spunky as a peacock.” Mora uses this metaphor of her mother’s voice being that “of an aunt in Mexico, spunky as a peacock” to illustrate how fearless her mother is when it comes to speaking up. Through
The author also uses various types of figurative language like metaphors and hyperbole's. Ernest Thayer uses metaphors comparing Casey to many things. "But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake."
Similes, metaphors, and personifications are the most common rhetoric devices that authors use. It is used many times in the book Lord of the Flies. Similes are a figure of speech comparing two unlike word using like or as. Golding uses many similes in his novel. For example, in Chapter one, the narrator said,“The two boys … flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dog.” Golding compares two boys and dog using like. Then, there is metaphors which is like similes, they do compare two unlike words, but they do not use like or as. In the Lord of the Flies, in Chapter one, the narrators said, “The bat was the child’s shadow …” The book compares bat to the child’s shadow without using like or as. Next, there is a rhetoric device called personification which means that a non-human thing or a figure is represented as a person. In Chapter two, page 45, it said that,”The flames, as through they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings ...” One may see the personification when Golding uses flames and gives flames human characteristics, when he says that flames, cr...
Symbolism, something that figuratively represents something else, is prominent in many literary works. One piece of literature that stands out as a perfect example of symbolism is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." This story is completely symbolic, and provides a good example of an allegory, or a story in which concrete items or characters represent abstract ideas. Hawthorne uses both objects and people as symbols to better support the allegorical tones throughout "Young Goodman Brown."
What is figurative language? Figurative language is saying something other than what is meant for effect. For example a metaphor, simile, symbol, hyperbole or personification. In the sermon called Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God and the Iroquois Constitution there is a lot of figurative language.
Diction plays a critical role in the development of the tone in a story. The type of words the author uses directly leads to the tone of the entire literary work. If ...
Figurative language is employed by Golding throughout the novel to develop plot and characters. In this passage, the most vivid figurative language is in the final paragraph.