Metaphor

It’s interesting to see how author’s uses many different literary devices to convey his or her messages towards an audience. And if used properly, it’ll help readers appreciate, understand, and analyze the true main idea of the literary work provided. To add on, we as readers are able to identify what type of an individual an author is, due to their choice of writing style. Some good examples of authors that supplies such ideas are Gary Soto in Fear, Lynda Barry in Common Scents, Amy Tan in…

Metaphors A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers to something being the same as another thing. A name given to something else with a similar figurative meaning. We use metaphors everyday of our lives. In our everyday texts and when we speak. Metaphors are used by writers to make you think about something of find a new meaning in something. Metaphors are a way to say something without having to straight out say it. Metaphors helps us illustrate a way of thinking, they help illustrate the…

Samuel Allen Dr.Suderman ENC 1102 5 Mar. 2016 Good People The essay “Good People” by David Foster Wallace, tells the very intimate troubles of a young couple. The story is told by alternating between the first-person point-of-view of Lane A. Dean, Jr., and limited omniscient point-of-view who knows the thoughts and inner feelings of the couple. Both Lane and Sheri are devout Christians who have grown their relationship in the eyes of God, so they take their religion very seriously. The essay…

understanding of a message. Language is fluid and using outdated terminology regresses the process; a nation and society grows only if the individuals can progress with time and old phrases fails to aid that process. He also mentions that “using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.” Language is a process by which one evokes thought and expression of ideas, but when one relies upon…

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

Very often readers approach literature with an attitude of finding the big message behind the author’s motives, rather than dissecting the challenges that they present themselves. The challenges that the reader experiences is diminished just to skip to the conclusion for the reward of personal growth without the solutions to get there. Unfortunately, the actions of finding the bigger message is most common in the literature of poetry when humans are asked to approach any sort of poem.…

Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, penned many famous poems, including “Nostalgia,” “Japan,” and “Picnic, Lightning.” His poem “Picnic Lightning” is a five-stanza piece centering on the idea of “chance.” Collins chooses to begin his poem with a quote from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. Collins’ style of writing lacks many traditional poetic devices such as a structured meter, but Collins uses other devices to deliver his central purpose. In “Picnic, Lightning,” Collins creates a…

The picking of fruit off a dirt organism In the poem “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost there is a complex message as most poem or works of literature do. In this specific poem there is a message of death or the thought of death and how the narrator feels about how his life was lived and when his own personal end will come. As he thinks his life was to repetitive and not as he wanted it since he is just a simple apple picker. In the pome Robert Frost mentioned “Long ...Or just human sleep”…

Archetypal Criticism in In the Time of the Butterflies Recurring symbols and themes can be found in just about any form of literature. These archetypes can easily be spotted when using a literary theory. A literary theory is used to analyze and interpret literature. Archetypal Criticism is a literary theory that focuses on common archetypes in literature. Archetypal Criticism claims that certain characters recur in literature, and there are no new stories (Davidson). Archetypal Criticism can be…

The poem “Blackberry Picking" is written by Seamus Heaney and carries the overall message of how to enjoy the evolution of life before it is corrupted by death. Seamus Heaney is trying to convey this message by describing the life cycle of berries. “At first, just one, a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot.” In this line, the author uses figurative language to ignite reader’s memories and senses of the beauty and excitement of youth. By rhyming “clot” and “knot” Heaney…