My poem is “Gold” by Pat More. The point of view in my story is first person, because Pat is telling the story from her perspective. “Gold” has the tone of light-hearted, because she's living a very happy life. The main setting in my book is nature by the desert and high in the sky. The literacy device that stands out is personification, personification is when you give human qualities to nonhuman things. The first example of personification is “ears stiff in the shade.” The personification was found in the first stanza and the eighth line. This example of personification means that the animals are listing to hear for any danger or looking out for each other. The example of personification is an impact to the story because it helps us understand how they stand up or watch out for each other. This is how this example is an important piece of the story. …show more content…
I think this impacts the theme because it's telling us how he watches everywhere.To see if something wrong is going to happen or if danger is coming this way. This piece of personification helps the story make more sense of how everything in nature looks out for each other. The third and last example of personification is “when the sun paints the desert.” This personification is found in the first line of the first stanza.This example in the poem means that sun puts a different perspective to the desert because when the sun comes out we see the world differently.This piece of personification helps with the poem because it makes me see where they are in that part of the poem and how they're seeing it. This was the last example of personification and is a huge part of the
Tree frogs, maybe, or snakes or flying squirrels or who-knew-what.” The author’s purpose for using personification in this particular passage is to reveal how chilling this war is, how it’s unlike any other battlefield. Also, how it intimidated the soldiers. The war must had been alarming for these animals to behave this way, abnormal and out of character. Another reason why this war is horrifying.
The use of imagery invokes a sense of discomfort and disgust in the speaker. In “Plums Failing Well”, the only attention they receive is from “ants and birds”. This indicates that humans have absolutely zero respect towards the plums. In fact, the only attention they receive is from the lower class creatures such as “ants”. By using personification, if “only they can breath”, the poet is comparing plums to humans.
For instance, there is an understanding of the woman’s feelings as she describes “a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” and the pattern looking at her “as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (Gilman 437). The personification is symbolic in displaying how the woman felt as she was stuck in the lonely room with allowance of her husband and Jennie, their child’s nanny, keeping their eyes on her with the dependence of her healing. Additionally, the woman specifies that behind the yellow wallpaper she can see “a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (Gilman 438). As the appearance of the wallpaper is personified, the author taps into the hidden meaning that the woman’s sickness is taunting her as she is attempting to heal. In the end, readers are given the most significant piece of personification in the statement, “and then when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me, I declared that I would finish it today!”
One example of personification is when comes to visit Grant after work: “A little farther over, where another patch of cane was standing, tall and blue-green, you could see the leaves swaying softly from a breeze.” (Gaines 86) The use of personification is effective because it allows the reader to visualise. In this instance, it creates an image of the leaves swaying in the wind.
Together, all of these examples of imagery develop the idea of the animal behavior of the story’s characters by depicting the atrocities and strident conditions the inmates face throughout the
“The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.” (Bradbury 291) Was a quote from the Story There Will Come Soft Rains. This is showing how the house is moving and is still working even without humans living in it. This example is all personification because it says how the house has bone and the skeleton cringe. Obviously Houses don't have bones, or a skeleton, and, veins.
Question 1: Night is a text with a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? , how does it affect the reading experience?
An example of allusion is “We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.” Henry made reference to the siren and the song that makes people lose their minds. An example of metaphor is “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.” He was comparing his experiences to a lamp that guided him. An example of imagery is “...and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.”
Poetry is an important part of literature which conveys an author 's ideas across to the reader through the use of descriptive language. Poetry helps an author to express their inner emotions and often incorporates various poetic devices which enriches the text. Poetry gives the reader a different perspective and when read closely, can give the audience a look into the authors imagination. Likewise, poetic devices enhance the writing and can drastically change the mood of the poem, as well as, how the reader interprets the poem. Poetic devices are important in literature because they help to convey a message, add spontaneity to a poem, and give the reader a strong visual.
Firstly, In the passage there was an example of personification. For example Todd thought to himself that Aaron's hand looked like a "smiling fist. ”This is personification because it is giving an inanimate object the "fist" characteristics such as smiling. This drives Aaron's character forward showing that he isn't friendly and is satisfied with beating Todd. Secondly, there was an example of a Simile in the passage.
The function of these symbols in the story play a pivotal role in how the reader perceives the characters and also how the theme of knowledge influences the nature
In the novel The Old Man and The Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway a credible author, the use of figurative language was not sparse. Figurative language enhances the story line and makes the book interesting and detailed. The most notable uses of figurative language were similes, metaphors, personification, idioms, and hyperboles. Similes are described as a comparison using like or as. We found many examples throughout the text.
Personification was used to show that the earth is similar to the feelings humans express; “the earth has guilt and care,” (line 13) and “though there be fury on the waves” (line 3). By expressing that the earth has guilt and care is personification understanding that the literal earth is not capable of expressing these feelings. When the author says, “though there be fury on the waves beneath them there is none” (lines 3-4) Hawthorne means the waves are wild, loud, and furious. Waves, however, cannot have fury, that is a human
In the “By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed./But thy eternal summer shall not fade,/Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;/Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,/When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st” (Line 8-12), the speaker uses personification that letting “[d]eath” as a person who cannot easily bring the speaker’s beloved into another world. The speaker is very confident that his beloved’s beauty will not fade because not only is beloved’s beauty he always believes but also is the best poem the speaker can write to beloved. However, the reason that the speaker feels a little bit sad is he cannot find the precise item to describe his beloved, which indicates that the speaker is very strict with himself and the way he loves his
The Sloth The author of the Sloth is Theodore Roethke. The title shows that the whole poem will be based on the sloth and how it lives. In this poem the author uses figurative language such as personification, imagery and metaphors as well as sound devices like rhyme schemes, repetition and alliteration to emphasize and explain what the sloth does in the poem and how it lives.