Pink Flamingo Figurative Language

The author of this article about the pink flamingos’ effect on U.S. culture is Jennifer Price. In this article she uses simple but effective diction to inform you on her view. Price’s syntax uses short, simple sentences surrounded by a few longer descriptive sentences. She also involves figurative language in this article to give a visual aid of what she is trying to convey. The use of three tools help to express her negative and sassy attitude towards the effect of pink flamingos on America’s culture. Word choice is very important when using it to sway the audience to see the minority’s opinion. This is exactly what Price does to help to convey her negative view on the American culture. The author uses simple and sophisticated, yet effective …show more content…
She uses similes, metaphors, and even some personification/characterizing. She uses the simile “Flamingo motels, restaurants, and lounges cropped up across the country like a line of semiotic sprouts” to express how the trend of the Flamingos spread and carried across all of America. This Flamingo trend was explained and expressed by the symbolism of pink representing boldness, which she expresses through this statement: “the flamingo was pink --- a second and commensurate claim to boldness.” Price even goes back to earlier times and associates the Flamingo with specific social groups through the use of metaphors. An example of this is when she says “Early Christians associated it with the red phoenix. In ancient Egypt, it symbolized the sun god Ra. In Mexico and the Caribbean, it remains a major motif in art, dance, and literature.” These metaphors show that people related and compare the Flamingo to much greater things that just the color and expressing boldness. With the use of figurative language she successfully gets her point across about American culture and how we use trends to make