Many different authors portray their writing in a plethora of different ways. Virginia Woolf, the author of the nonfiction long essay A Room of One’s Own, has a unique writing style that intrigues readers from around the world. Many writers, after stating their thesis, will only explain why their thesis is correct. Woolf showed her concept of feminism by writing the detailed train of thought that lead to her thesis of having “money and a room of one’s own to write fiction” (Woolf 1). By using many different forms of figurative language and stories, Virginia has the ability to portray this train of thought in a captivating and interesting way. The large scale tactic Woolf used in writing her essay was to explain the thought process that led
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“...bushes of some sort, golden and crimson…” (Woolf 1) language such as in this statement keeps the writing interesting and keeps her audience involved. The better description of the stories she uses also helps to persuade the reader to follow in her ideals. “Thought [...] had let its line downstream.” (Woolf 1), this unique analogy gives the readers another idea of how the author thinks. By comparing her incoming idea as reeling in a boat, the author is better able to visualize her ideas to her audience. The continuation of that quote shows this as well. In chapter 1, the author compares having a thought is also like a fisherman finding a fish. If the fish is small, the fisherman will put it back in the stream in hopes of finding it again when it grows larger. “...if you look carefully you may find it for yourselves in [along] the course…” (Woolf 1). These ideas also correlate with Woolf’s mission to find the truth. To explain this, Virginia uses a metaphor in chapter two of her essay, “So reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.” One of the final uses of figurative language that stood out was, “...they alone entirely ignored the perpetual admonitions of the eternal pedagogue.” Was this to say that, she in herself, was an ‘eternal pedagogue’ as
“...bushes of some sort, golden and crimson…” (Woolf 1) language such as in this statement keeps the writing interesting and keeps her audience involved. The better description of the stories she uses also helps to persuade the reader to follow in her ideals. “Thought [...] had let its line downstream.” (Woolf 1), this unique analogy gives the readers another idea of how the author thinks. By comparing her incoming idea as reeling in a boat, the author is better able to visualize her ideas to her audience. The continuation of that quote shows this as well. In chapter 1, the author compares having a thought is also like a fisherman finding a fish. If the fish is small, the fisherman will put it back in the stream in hopes of finding it again when it grows larger. “...if you look carefully you may find it for yourselves in [along] the course…” (Woolf 1). These ideas also correlate with Woolf’s mission to find the truth. To explain this, Virginia uses a metaphor in chapter two of her essay, “So reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.” One of the final uses of figurative language that stood out was, “...they alone entirely ignored the perpetual admonitions of the eternal pedagogue.” Was this to say that, she in herself, was an ‘eternal pedagogue’ as