In texts authors can use literary elements to affect a story's meaning and to help make connection to readers. Literary elements include many things, such as, imagery, hyperboles, similes, metaphors, connotative meaning, emotion, and shades of meaning. These elements help authors to create new depths of meaning in a various amount of ways, some texts that use literary elements to impact meaning and tone are, "I Have A Dream", "38 Witnesses", and "Night". To begin, one text that is affected by literary elements is "Night". In the novel by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel uses literary elements to give more emotion to the text and to make a conncetion to readers, as show here, "He had become childlke: weak, frighteneed, vulnerable." (Wiesel 105). Here
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Martin Luther King Jr is another text in which lterary elements plays a big role in affecting meaning and tone. Throughout the text he uses literary elements frequently, even in his opening paragraph he uses a simile here, "This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice," (King par 1). He sets the tone by writing a simile to hook the readers and listeners of the speech. He also uses this element to make the speech interesting to people and give readers and listeners a good description of what it was like to be treated unfairly during that time. As he continues to read, he uses many metaphors, for example, "...America has given the negro people a bad check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'... we refuse to believe there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation." (King par 4). This metaphor illustrates how people of color were treated with injustice. The tone this provides is passionate and hopeful for the future of America. Without the use of literary elements throughout this speech these words would've left no mark, no impact on the United States. This is how literary elements impacted and played a big role in affecting the tone and meaning of "I Have A
Martin Luther King Jr is another text in which lterary elements plays a big role in affecting meaning and tone. Throughout the text he uses literary elements frequently, even in his opening paragraph he uses a simile here, "This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice," (King par 1). He sets the tone by writing a simile to hook the readers and listeners of the speech. He also uses this element to make the speech interesting to people and give readers and listeners a good description of what it was like to be treated unfairly during that time. As he continues to read, he uses many metaphors, for example, "...America has given the negro people a bad check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'... we refuse to believe there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation." (King par 4). This metaphor illustrates how people of color were treated with injustice. The tone this provides is passionate and hopeful for the future of America. Without the use of literary elements throughout this speech these words would've left no mark, no impact on the United States. This is how literary elements impacted and played a big role in affecting the tone and meaning of "I Have A