For the book that I liked, I picked Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and I believe that the author, JK Rowling has made an excellent use of language in this very famous novel of hers. Different characters' speech patterns reveal their levels of education. Wizards speak in proper English, and Hagrid, who is half-giant and not fully educated, drops his H's and slurs his words together a bit sloppily. House-elves have no sophisticated mastery of language. They use terrible grammar, referring to themselves in third person and using almost exclusively short, exclamatory sentences. They speak in a manner inferior to that of wizards, and they cannot express themselves clearly or persuasively. The storyline of this book is also unique when you consider
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This is a simile because it uses like to compare Mr. Crouch to a skeleton when standing in the shadows. "A living room on wheels” is an example of metaphor since it compares the Beauxbaton carriage to a living room. The author also weaves a captivating story with just the right ingredients of suspense, adventure, and fantasy. Her characters are very real and identifiable. The story is written in the third person and takes us into a fantasy world in the Harry Potter series. This world is seen through the narrator's eyes; it is definitely a story. More emphasis is put on Harry and his three friends and Harry is present in the great majority of the scenes. Harry is the protagonist of the story, but the reader is looking in on the scene and, in fact, sees sometimes more than the main character sees. The narrator is the one who supplies the details that Harry does not really see. The reader sympathises well and has empathy for Harry and his friends' feelings, but cannot see the story totally from their point of view. However, Kristin Lemmerman of CNN said that it is not exactly a great piece of literature: 'Her prose has more in common with your typical beach-blanket fare and the beginning contained too much recap to introduce characters to new readers, although Rowling quickly gets back on track, introducing readers to a host of well-drawn new characters.’ Charles Taylor, on the contrary was generally positive about the change of
This is a simile because it uses like to compare Mr. Crouch to a skeleton when standing in the shadows. "A living room on wheels” is an example of metaphor since it compares the Beauxbaton carriage to a living room. The author also weaves a captivating story with just the right ingredients of suspense, adventure, and fantasy. Her characters are very real and identifiable. The story is written in the third person and takes us into a fantasy world in the Harry Potter series. This world is seen through the narrator's eyes; it is definitely a story. More emphasis is put on Harry and his three friends and Harry is present in the great majority of the scenes. Harry is the protagonist of the story, but the reader is looking in on the scene and, in fact, sees sometimes more than the main character sees. The narrator is the one who supplies the details that Harry does not really see. The reader sympathises well and has empathy for Harry and his friends' feelings, but cannot see the story totally from their point of view. However, Kristin Lemmerman of CNN said that it is not exactly a great piece of literature: 'Her prose has more in common with your typical beach-blanket fare and the beginning contained too much recap to introduce characters to new readers, although Rowling quickly gets back on track, introducing readers to a host of well-drawn new characters.’ Charles Taylor, on the contrary was generally positive about the change of