Conceptual metaphor

Each author has different diction and syntax that makes their work unique. Authors use different stylistic tools for different reasons throughout their story. Different stylistic tools have different effects and do certain things to the story. In American Wife by Taya Kyle, Taya uses figurative language to get a point across to her reader, make her writing more interesting, and allow her readers to better visualize what she is talking about. To begin, Taya uses figurative language throughout…

John Clare was a famous writer whose background was not the norm. Clare was born into a less fortunate, lower class family with parents who were illiterate (Poetry Foundation, 2016). Clare became a farm laborer at a young age, but was later given some formal schooling and discovered a love for poetry. As writers do, Clare using his background and what he was familiar with developed his skill and went on to publish multiple volumes of poetry (Poetry Foundation, 2016). First Love by John Clare…

purpose through shifts in verb tense, reflective tone, and specific details to assert authority; metaphor and analogy to demonstrate logic; and a self-deprecating tone, direct reader address, and colloquial language to establish an emotional connection with the audience. Orwell’s shifts in verb tense evoke a…

love can overcome any obstacle. Suzanne Collins includes foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, and shows the mood and moral of the story during the adventure of Mockingjay. Collins uses…

described as walking through a wood one morning, reaching a fork and contemplates which path to take out of the two diverged roads. The persona chooses the road “less travelled” and sets off on a holistic, life-changing journey. The poem is an extended metaphor about life. The character in the poem literally journeys through the “yellow woods” down one of the “two roads” but this journey is merely the basis for the more important symbolic journey. The poem is allegorical as it consists of a…

William Shakespeare is history’s most greatest, influential, and philosophical playwright. His most acclaimed work, Hamlet, is extensively studied and analyzed as it confronts and speaks openly about many moral, ethical, emotional truths and dilemmas. Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, in which the indecisive and contemplative protagonist is driven to avenge his father’s death, yet the act of his revenge is necessarily delayed in order to highlight Hamlet’s emotional and psychological complexity. The…

Using metaphors and imagery, she explains how she rises above the hatred of racists. Angelou grew up in 1930’s America where racism towards African Americans was at an all-time high. In “Still I Rise” it is made clear that Angelou faced the actions of racists as…

ABSTRACT Literature is the art of life. It is fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language. Literature reflects an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination. Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru is an Indian author and one of the best known Diastolic writers in Indian English Literature. His novels mostly deal with multiculturalism, globalization, technology, political and social problems, terrorism, diaspora and cultural identity. His second novel “Transmission” is one of…

There is no denying the fact that colors are everywhere. In everyday life, people often associate colors with different feelings or emotions. In literature, colors can be used to symbolize more than just the way something looks. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a hopeful young man chasing the American Dream, tries for years to win back his old love Daisy Buchanan by becoming rich. Throughout the novel, color symbolism plays many important roles. The color green is…

They call you Mister Steve Biko now you’re dead this is the poem that I have chosen. In this essay I am going to be explaining the meaning of the poem and also what effects it has on me. I am also going to give the reader an overview of Steve Biko. As Gabeba Baderoon has said in his statement poetry is an element that has given the suppressed a voice even more so during Apartheid when people were suppressed. The poem about Steve Biko is an extraordinary example of someone making his voice heard…