A boy named Douglas Spaulding, 12 years old, is beginning gus summer quite excitedly.
In the excerpt from the novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury the atmosphere is filled to the brim with rhetorical devices such as metaphors and personification along with many more.
As the passage begins there is personification and metaphors shown. Such as in lines 3 through 5, "As the summer started the wind had the proper touch" using personification to couch the concept that it humanizes the object in order to make it more vivid and relatable. Then in lines 16 and 17 "He flashed his gaze like a beacon" Bradbury uses this as a metaphor to compare and fore a direct association with the reader's mind.
While the passage continues there is a selection of imagery
As the reader may know, Bradbury uses many literary tools to support the theme of his stories, and to make his stories more descriptive. Bradbury also aims to keep the reader’s attention. One could also infer that Bradbury emphasizes the topic of his stories. Even though, he doesn’t blantly tell the reader where he’s going with his stories, he uses another way. Ray Bradbury uses several tools to create meaning in his stories, including personification, symbolism, imagery, and foreshadowing.
Figurative language is in most well written novels. It helps develop the overall theme the author is trying to portray. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, I noticed Harper Lee distinctively used two types of figurative language. The first is symbolism, Lee used this twice during the novel with the mockingbird representing beauty innocence and Boo Radley representing the good in people. The second is motifs, Lee used this to emphasize the small town life in Maycomb, Alabama and helps give a better understanding of the people in the town.
The first rhetorical device that is addressed countless times throughout the essay, is the use of similes. Firoozeh uses
In The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne efficiently conveys his purpose to the audience through the use of numerous rhetorical devices in his novel. Two such rhetorical strategies Hawthorne establishes to convey his purpose of informing the audience of valuable life lessons in The Scarlet Letter are characterization and the theme of duality.
A rhetorical situation can be found in every composition since it serves as the foundation. To further provide evidence towards my claims about the function of the rhetorical situation, I will analyze how three different compositions were influenced by the rhetorical situation.
He uses imagery to show how complicated people make life; how much of life is unnecessary. In turn, it evokes emotional responses from the readers. An example is, “ Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, “what’s the news?” as if the rest of man kind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half-hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed. After a night‘s sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. “Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe”-- and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.” (page 278). In this part of the text Thoreau explains the life of a man. In the end however, it turns into a sorrowful ending. What Thoreau was trying to say in this part of the text is that people could go experience things themselves instead of listening to stories. Instead of staying home and asking what is happening with the world, you could experience it yourself and that it is unnecessary to hear the stories in the
“The Veldt” is a short and twisting story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury about the Hadley family who lives in a futuristic world that ends up “ruining human relationships and destroying the minds of children” (Hart). The house they live in is no ordinary home, Bradbury was very creative and optimistic when predicting future technology in homes. This house does everything for the residence including tying shoes, making food, and even rocking them to sleep. The favourite room of the children, Peter and Wendy, is the forty by forty foot nursery. This room’s setting reacts to the children’s thoughts. Everything from the temperature to the ground’s texture responds to the environment Wendy and Peter imagine, and in this case, an African veldt. All the advanced technology is intended for positive uses, but instead, becomes negative, consumerism catches up, and does harm by coming to life, and killing Lynda and Bob Hadley. Ray Bradbury develops his theme that consumerism is a negative concept, in his short story, “The Veldt” through the use of foreshadowing, allusion, and irony.
It is safe to say that the box next to the “boring, monotone, never-ending lecture” has been checked off more than once. Without the use of rhetorical strategies, the world would be left with nothing but boring, uniform literature. This would leave readers feeling the same way one does after a bad lecture. Rhetorical devices not only open one’s imagination but also allows a reader to dig deep into a piece and come out with a better understanding of the author’s intentions. Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Wife’s Story” is about a family that is going through a tough spot. However, though diction, imagery, pathos, and foreshadowing Guin reveals a deep truth about this family that the reader does not see coming.
Core Question 1: Why does the author use a metaphor on page 128, paragraph 35?
The entire essay follows an analogy about the ancient Greek goddesses, The Muses. Bradbury starts off with a series of rhetorical questions on the muse and what to do with her. His personification of the muse is rather abstract. he compares the muse first to the concept of love by using a modified Oscar Wilde poem. Then to the specks of light that float in one’s eye. Bradbury claims a muse is something that must be ignored to work. He continues the work by discussing what to feed a muse. “… We stuff ourselves with sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and textures of people, animals, landscapes, events, large and small” (Bradbury 33). Bradbury goes on to claim these sensations are what makes a muse grow. The essay continues with Bradbury’s assessment that every person has a muse because everyone sees and witnesses’ events differently. “… when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry” (Bradbury 34). The discussion of everyone’s personal muse concludes with a story about Bradbury’s dad and the poetry he has spoken. This whole section functions to encourage the reader and help him/her to consider his/her own
One of the literary techniques most prominently featured throughout the passage would be that of imagery. The author takes great care to interweave sentences comparing the traits
"Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it? We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960. Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well-fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! I don't hear those idiot bastards in your parlor talking about it. God, Millie, don't you see? An hour a day, two hours, with these books, and maybe..." (Bradbury ). This quote shows that he is starting to realize and start to care about how many bomers are in the sky. It has caught his attention that he is paying more attention to the little things that he has not noticed
The subject of death is one that many have trouble talking about, but Virginia Woolf provides her ideas in her narration The Death of the Moth. The moth is used as a metaphor to depict the constant battle between life and death, as well as Woolf’s struggle with chronic depression. Her use of pathos and personification of the moth helps readers develop an emotional connection and twists them to feel a certain way. Her intentional use of often awkward punctuation forces readers to take a step back and think about what they just read. Overall, Woolf uses these techniques to give her opinion on existence in general, and reminds readers that death is a part of life.
The use of a hyperbole creates exaggeration in the text on page six, “the flutter mill might turn forever.” Rawling also used many similes throughout her novel. One example of this is on page six, “A shaft of sunlight, warm and thin like a light patchwork quilt, lay across his body.” This simile created imagery with vivid explanations. In addition to similes, Rawling also uses metaphors throughout her work. On page six, “In mid-afternoon the skies turned so black that the chickens went to roost.” Metaphors allow to express emotions, experiences, and imagines with creativity. Lastly, personification was present through many aspects of the story. Personification helps relate ideas and objects to people by giving things human characteristics. For example on page 224, "A gust of wind moved through and slammed both doors.” This quote gave wind human characteristics which caught my attention. To conclude, the usage of figurative language in Rawlings essay strengthened the
In “Birches”, Robert Frost uses imagery and analogies as a way of conveying his message. Frost’s use of imagery and analogies are used in the themes of nature, analogies, and imagination. Frost uses imagery throughout the poem to create a vivid image of how he imagines the Birches to be. His use of comparisons enables the reader to view the Birches in numerous perspectives. His use of imagery and metaphors are appealing because they are pragmatic, and create a clear image for the reader.