“The Dwarf” By Ray Bradbury p. 283 “Ralph sat cold and waxen in his glass coffin, laying out the cards, his eyes fixed, his mouth stiff.”
This passage compares Ralph’s ticket booth to a coffin. It’s an effective use of a metaphor because it foreshadows something bad to happen (perhaps the death of Ralph or the death of the dwarf, or even the death of Ralph’s friendship with Aimee). It also makes us picture Ralph as “cold and waxen” inside the “coffin.” He’s not a warm, lovable character but a creepy one that you’d rather not meet at the end of an empty pier. Since he continues playing cards in this scene even after Aimee approaches, it helps confirm the readers’ feeling that Ralph is comfortable being the “cold” and heartless person that he is.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” By Harriet Beecher Stowe p. 377
“ “I am to be sold at the auction, to-morrow!” said Tom quietly. “Sold at auction,―haw! haw! Boys, an’t this yer fun? I wish’t I was gwine that ar way!―tell ye, wouldn’t I make em laugh? But how is it,―dis yer whole lot gwine to-morrow?” said Sambo, laying his hand freely on Adolph’s shoulder.”
This quote from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” shows an example of dialect. Dialect is a certain way someone speaks so I think this dialogue between Tom and Sambo shows it very well. It definitely makes Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing better because through the way she made this character talk you can almost feel yourself being pulled into that time period and even in that exact situation. From this small scene you are able to see a world of difference between these two slaves. First, you have Uncle Tom, who has been owned by many good masters who have treated him like family. They have treated him with respect and compassion. They have broken the law to educate him and teach him how to read. And of course they also went to the trouble to teach him how to speak with correct language and grammar. However, on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, we have what most would call a typical slave―poor and uneducated. Sambo seems as if he has never had a food master to take care of him. He is used to the slave auctions and isn’t very polite. Sambo also seems a little on the obnoxious and/or rude side which could very well be a side effect of never really being cared for. Since he doesn’t speak like Tom it shows that he was also never taught to speak correctly. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us the huge difference between how some slaves had it better than others just by using this single literary technique. This simple passage definitely makes her writing better.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” By Harriet Beecher Stowe p.389
“Tom thanked her; and the woman, sitting down on the floor, drew up her knees, and embracing them with her arms looked fixedly before her, with a bitter and painful expression of countenance. Her bonnet fell back, and long wavy streams of black hair fell around her singular and melancholy face.”
This passage displays figurative language or imagery. By reading this passage, the reader can develop a specific picture of how this scene played out. This is a good place to use figurative language because you can understand exactly what the character is going through during this hard time. This also gives a sense of the character’s personality. One can tell that this woman is helpful because the character Tom thanked her for doing something for him. You can also tell that this character is suffering because it says she showed a “bitter and painful expression of countenance”. You can tell by how much description Harriet Beecher Stowe gives of this woman’s expression that she was very miserable or depressed about a fact. You can also tell that this woman is very thoughtful because she was looking “fixedly before her”. You can also tell that this woman is weak because she was embracing her knees with a painful expression across her face and she didn’t do anything about how her bonnet fell back. She let her bonnet fall back, revealing her wavy streams of hair. This shows how weak the character was because she didn’t have enough strength to even fix her bonnet.
“Breaking Dawn” By: Stephanie Meyer p. 532 “The necklace was simple-gold woven into a thick rope of a chain, almost scaled, like a smooth snake that would curl close around the throat.”(p. 532)
This passage uses a clear simile. It does so by comparing (using “like) the thick “rope of a chain” to a smooth scaled snake. To a degree this would also be an example of personification but the passage is using the chain and comparing it to a rope. Meyer uses many similes such as this throughout the book, but this one was in my opinion, her most interesting one. It surprised me that the necklace described in this passage was so simple because as stated previously in the story, it belongs to the Volturi, the very powerful and wealthy clan of head vampires. The Volturi had mostly been described as high-class snobbish vampires, and yet the jewels they have received from many generations ago are plain and ordinary looking. Perhaps the necklace could symbolize something, or it could be foreshadowing an upcoming event involving the necklace and what it symbolizes (Bella becoming a vampire). Stephanie Meyer only uses similes in her writing, from what I have seen, in foreshadowing and symbolism.
“When he first bought her, she was, as she had said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality. But, at this time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.”
This passage demonstrates Cassy, the female slave’s, power over Legree, the plantation owner. It is an effective use of irony, or an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected because, in this time period, women and slaves had no authority. A slave woman having any sort of influence over a man who supposedly has complete power over her is ironic. While living with Legree, Cassy fosters a great hatred for most everything as expressed in the quote “hardened womanhood within her”. This sort of violence and negativity is not common in Stowe’s other female character’s. Most of the women are portrayed as being spiritual and morally conscientious. The fact that Cassy is not highly idealized might also be considered ironic by people familiar with Stowe’s style of writing. The manner in which Cassy contrasts with other females in the novel, either by her authority or her iniquity is what makes her an important part of this work of literature. Cassy developed as a character and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing was enhanced by the use of the literary technique that is irony.
Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman -pg 30 “I don’t know what she is. Sometimes she acts like a heroine of an epic fantasy novel and sometimes she acts like she’s about nine years old, which might be cute if she didn’t kill people. But if you tried to make up a list of reasons why a person would look and act like she does, ‘fairy’ would be about the least likely. Maybe it just suits her to say that - better than ‘wacky elective surgery’ or ‘spy from evil wasp-persons,’ or whatever it is that made her this way. God knows, my story is no better than hers.”
The above passage is describing the female superhero “Damsel”. The literary technique expressed in the above paragraph was a metaphor. The hilarity can somewhat distract the reader from the descriptive words used to describe Damsel, but the metaphors are obvious in this passage. The narrator compares Damsel to the somewhat stereotypical view of a heroine, and the hilarious comparison to a nine year old. A side note in this paragraph would be is his comparison to a nine year old, despite her ‘killing people’, which in reality is true because of Damsels violent past. Earlier in the story we get another taste of a “nine year old” as Damsel is afraid to go into battle, because of her petty needs and fears. At other times we get the heroine of an epic fantasy novel, with Damsel fighting against the corrupted wasp-persons in a strong battle. The reaction the narrator has for Damsel could be a on-and-off liking, which we will develop later in the story to our interest.
“Elijah of Buxton” by Christopher Paul Curtis p. 75
“…So’s he went from being music-ish to being machine-ish, which is what the Preacher said Mr. Leroy was. He said he’d heard Mr. Leroy’s heart beating in his chest and that ’stead of sounding like it was made out of flesh and blood, it banged and pounded like it was made out of pure iron!”
This is an example of metaphor because Mr. Leroy is not really “machine-ish”, but the Preacher thinks he is because of the sounds he thought he heard coming from Mr. Leroy’s heart were more robotic than human. At the moment, Mr. Leroy was “felling” trees, or cutting them down, and the rhythmic sounds made by the axe made Elijah think back to what the Preacher said. In Elijah’s Settlement, the Preacher is not very respected because of the stories he makes up to scare the children, but Elijah thinks highly of him, and listens closely when he says something.
Literary Luminary pg. # 80 Sensory Language Passage: “The air smells this morning like it has just come out of the wash. The sun is still low, casting white, opaque light. The ocean is quiet but beginning to whoosh as if it is getting in gear for the things it has planned for our day. As if it is time’s great internal-combustion engine. The mist patches run across the wet sand, late to work. It is commuting mist.”
Response: Having used four of our five senses in the paragraph it shows use of sensory language. It also shows signs of personification in some places. This technique helps make the writing better because it helps of visualize this scene in book better. It helps us feel what the author perhaps felt while she wrote this passage. Without the sensory language the passage would look and sound something like this: The air smells this morning. The sun is low. I don’t hear the ocean but then again I do hear it. I see mist, late to work commuting mist.
Passage: “Be honest. You dote upon her words as if each one were a diamond, and your gaze lingers upon her as if you were starving and she a grand feast arrayed an inch beyond you reach.”
This quote is mainly an example of a simile. Roran uses similes to describe to Eragon how he can see Eragon’s true feeling for the elf named Arya. He says that Eragon “dotes upon her words as if each one were a diamond” when he we get the impression that Eragon is so in love with Arya that even her words entrance him. We also get the impression that Eragon pays a lot of attention to her because in the time period that the story is set in, diamond were very precious, and a person would take time out of every day just to car for their diamonds. Next in the quote Roran use a simile and a metaphor to describe Eragon’s love. He says that Eragon’s gaze is like that of a “starving” man (simile) and Arya is a “grand feast” just an “inch” beyond his reach. The “starving” and the “grand feast” part imply that Eragon wants to be with her very much, but the “inch beyond your reach” tells us that Eragon has either been rejected or there is an obstacle in the way of him pursuing a relationship with her. Christopher Paolini shows an great examples of using similes and metaphors to tell of one feelings with out just coming out and bluntly saying them.
“Messenger” by Lois Lowry p. 76 “ ‘He knows his true name already!’ Matty knelt beside the puppy and stroked the little head. ‘Good puppy,’ he said. The big brown eyes gazed up at him and the spotted body, still sprawled obediently on the floor, quivered with affection.”
This passage is an example of imagery. Lois Lowry also displays her use of figurative language by adding the words “sprawled” and “quivered”. In this scene, I can really visualize what the image the author was seeing when she was writing this book. From this passage, it is evident that Matty is a nice and gentle person by the way he speaks to the puppy and the way he strokes its head. I think that this passage enhances the authors writing because earlier in the book Matty tells Jean, “I have a way with dogs”. By the way the puppy gazes up at him while remaining on the floor (where Matty told him to lay), and by the way he “quivered with affection,” I really do get a sense that Matty has a way with dogs.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe pg.#472
“ I’m a thinkin’ my old man won’t know de boys and de baby. Lor’ she’s de biggest gal, now, -good she is, too, and peart, Polly is.”
This is an example of dialect when Aunt Chloe is telling Mrs. Shelby that Uncle Tom will not recognize his own children because he has been gone so long. This passage helps me to understand that Aunt Chloe is a slave and that many of her people have suffered much in their lifetimes. This situation also turns out to be ironic, because the reader is expecting Uncle Tom to come home and everything will be right again, but Uncle Tom is already dead.
---Sort-of-Spoiler Warning!!!--- “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer, pg. 400
“I reached my hand out, my fingers trembling slightly, and touched the red-brown fur on the side of his face. The black eyes closed, and Jacob leaned his huge head into my hand. A thrumming hum resonated in this throat. The fur was both soft and rough, and warm against my skin. I ran my fingers through it curiously, learning the texture, stroking his neck where the color deepened.”
This passage shows sensory language. Bella describes Jacob’s fur as being “red-brown”, and later on she stroked his neck, “where the color deepened.” She also says he has black eyes. These sentences use the sense of sight, describing the look of his fur and color of his eyes. Also using the sense of sight, she says his head is huge, helping us to visualize the wolf. Using the sense of hearing, she says “a thrumming hum resonated from this throat”. We can assume the wolf was “purring”, in a way similar to cats. She describes the feel of Jacob’s fur as being “both soft and rough, and warm”. This whole passage helps the reader to visualize Bella’s encounter with Jacob as a wolf for the first time, as the readers who have read the previous books know she has had two very limited encounters with Jacob as a wolf. In “New Moon” she sees him in the meadow with Laurent, and again when Paul gets angry and turns into a wolf, when Jacob tries to protect Bella. Both times she only saw him, and from a distance. This passage also helps the reader visualize later scenes in the book, helping with the overall visualization of the book.
‘’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’’ by Harriet Beecher Stowe p.296
‘’The silver, fair browned moon rose in the purple sky, and looked down, calm and silent, as God looks on the scene of misery and oppression, - looked calmly on the lone black man, as he sat, with his arms folded, and his Bible on his knee. ’’
This passage displays a metaphor. By reading this passage the reader can really look what the slaves were going through at the time. They know that this is a terrible place, even for a slave in that time period. Harriet Beecher Stowe even described the moon and the sky in very sad colors in my opinion. Also she uses the moon in a way as the moon is God and the Sky is heaven. The moon at night looks down on a dark Earth as God would look down on Earth in one of there most shameful and disgraceful time periods in America’s history. This passage is filled with little metaphors inside the main one.
" St.Clare's fine countenace was for a moment overcast; he looked annoyed, but suddenly calling up a gay smile, he said, Come, cousin, don't stand there look like one of the Fates; you've only seen a peep through the curtain- a specimen of what is going on, the world is over, in some shape or other. If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life we should have no heart to anything. 'Tis like looking too close into the details of Dinah's kitchen,' and St.Clare lay back on the sofa, and busied himself with his paper."
This quote from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows irony. This is a huge display of irony on St.Clare's part. As i was reading through this story St.Clare seemed like a very humane character. He treated all of his slaves with a deep respect. He never seemed like he would harm anyone or anything. In this part of the story, Miss Ophelia has witnessed a beating of a slave who belongs to another slave owner. Miss Ophelia is wondering why St.Clare isn't doing anything about it. I personally thought St.Clare would take a stand, and take up for the slave that was beaten. Miss Ophelia thought this also, " 'an't you going to do anything about it?' said Miss Ophelia.". When St.Clare responded to Miss Ophelia by brushing it off and telling her " 'I can't buy every poor wretch I see. I can't turn knight-errant, and undertake to redress every individual case of wrong in such a city as this.' " This really shocked me. I thought St.Clare would take over. I thought he would go handle the situation by stopping them from beating their slaves,or at least try to prevent them from doing it again. Or I thought he would go buy the slave that was beaten, and save him from ever getting beaten again. However, St.Clare reacted completely different than I thought he would. This is important to the story because this shows a lot of depth to St.Clares character. It tells me that even though in my opinion he may the most humane character in a since of the way he treats his slaves, there is always a different side to someone you may never know about. I also kind of understand where St.Clare is coming from though. It makes since that he didn't do anything about the beating of the slave, beacuse there were many slaves getting beaten, and St.Clare didn't have the power or the money, to save each and everyone of them. So in a since this does show irony. But, after thinking about the situation i understand why St.Clare did what he did. = )
An attachment to something or someone is holding on to the belief that a certain thing or person will fulfill you. Attachments keep us alive. They make us strive either to keep what we have or to pursue what we want. But sometimes they can also stick us in neutral, running in circles and getting nowhere. Charlotte was stuck, that much was sure.
(reason) This is Personification. I chose this quote because I thought the comparison of how attachment can keep us running in circles, like if a car was set in neutral.I also felt I could relate to this too. Like how I'm so attached to my wristband I've been wearing since 5th grade, I just feel so empty when I'm not wearing it.In Charlotte's case, she just can't let go of her love Damen, but she has to in order to help her classmates and herself passover.
Passage: "O, Miss Eva! oh, Miss Eva! I wish I's dead too,-I do!"
This is an example of dialect. It show's the mispronunciation of "I was", which I think is important, because it really sets the setting of the South during this time of slavery. I think it also show that slaves never reall got the proper education they would need to succeed in the world.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, page 154 ‘”Oh! Master, this vest all stained with wine; of course, a gentleman in master’s standing never wears a vest like this. I understood I was to take it. …”’ This is an example of dialect. The person who says the quote is a slave named Adolph. His grammar is better than other slaves’. The fact that he speaks with good grammar shows what kind of person his master is. His master, Mr. St Clare, treats his slaves like his children, rather than slaves. Adolph knowing how to talk with better grammar shows a lot about the personality about St Clare. This is the first time that the reader is introduced to one of his slaves. The personality of St Clare and how it will affect the story are made clear by the difference of how Adolph acts and talks and how other people’s slaves talk. Tom will have a different kind of home and things will be happy for Tom, better than it has been in the past. This also lets the reader know that something really bad might happen to take Tom from this good situation because this quote isn't near the end of the book and there is most likely going to be more conflict. This is good use of dialect because it shows a lot about the personality of some characters and gives the reader a sense of what is going to happen in this part of the story all through one quote.
“Alicia: My Story” by Alicia Appleman-Jurman Page 127 Passage: “I pulled back my hand. “No!” I cried. “I love this ring. It’s the only thing I have left. Please, Lala.” I turned to her, pleading.”
Response: In this passage, Alicia’s whole world is personified in the ring. After losing her father and almost all of her brothers and being separated from her mother, she travels back to Buczacz to meet up with her mother and her one remaining brother. While she is in Buczacz, she retrieves the ring from a hole in the wall and seems to believe it is all she had left; fearing her mother and brother had been killed in the latest action. The ring was given to her by Milek, whom she was “madly in love with”; also personifying the friend that saved her while she was taken in an action. After having everything taken away from her, having the ring was very important to her and she did not want to give it up. She stored it inside of the wall, promising to come back to retrieve it, fearing that if she brought it with her, it would be taken like her earrings earlier in the book. It also personifies the earrings she lost in jail, the only bit of her pervious life she had left, the only belonging from her life before Nazis Germany took over Poland. The ring symbolizes her family, her friend, and her belongings. The ring really did personify her entire world.
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“The Dwarf” By Ray Bradbury p. 283
“Ralph sat cold and waxen in his glass coffin, laying out the cards, his eyes fixed, his mouth stiff.”
This passage compares Ralph’s ticket booth to a coffin. It’s an effective use of a metaphor because it foreshadows something bad to happen (perhaps the death of Ralph or the death of the dwarf, or even the death of Ralph’s friendship with Aimee). It also makes us picture Ralph as “cold and waxen” inside the “coffin.” He’s not a warm, lovable character but a creepy one that you’d rather not meet at the end of an empty pier. Since he continues playing cards in this scene even after Aimee approaches, it helps confirm the readers’ feeling that Ralph is comfortable being the “cold” and heartless person that he is.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” By Harriet Beecher Stowe p. 377
“ “I am to be sold at the auction, to-morrow!” said Tom quietly. “Sold at auction,―haw! haw! Boys, an’t this yer fun? I wish’t I was gwine that ar way!―tell ye, wouldn’t I make em laugh? But how is it,―dis yer whole lot gwine to-morrow?” said Sambo, laying his hand freely on Adolph’s shoulder.”
This quote from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” shows an example of dialect. Dialect is a certain way someone speaks so I think this dialogue between Tom and Sambo shows it very well. It definitely makes Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing better because through the way she made this character talk you can almost feel yourself being pulled into that time period and even in that exact situation. From this small scene you are able to see a world of difference between these two slaves. First, you have Uncle Tom, who has been owned by many good masters who have treated him like family. They have treated him with respect and compassion. They have broken the law to educate him and teach him how to read. And of course they also went to the trouble to teach him how to speak with correct language and grammar. However, on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, we have what most would call a typical slave―poor and uneducated. Sambo seems as if he has never had a food master to take care of him. He is used to the slave auctions and isn’t very polite. Sambo also seems a little on the obnoxious and/or rude side which could very well be a side effect of never really being cared for. Since he doesn’t speak like Tom it shows that he was also never taught to speak correctly. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us the huge difference between how some slaves had it better than others just by using this single literary technique. This simple passage definitely makes her writing better.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” By Harriet Beecher Stowe p.389
“Tom thanked her; and the woman, sitting down on the floor, drew up her knees, and embracing them with her arms looked fixedly before her, with a bitter and painful expression of countenance. Her bonnet fell back, and long wavy streams of black hair fell around her singular and melancholy face.”
This passage displays figurative language or imagery. By reading this passage, the reader can develop a specific picture of how this scene played out. This is a good place to use figurative language because you can understand exactly what the character is going through during this hard time. This also gives a sense of the character’s personality. One can tell that this woman is helpful because the character Tom thanked her for doing something for him. You can also tell that this character is suffering because it says she showed a “bitter and painful expression of countenance”. You can tell by how much description Harriet Beecher Stowe gives of this woman’s expression that she was very miserable or depressed about a fact. You can also tell that this woman is very thoughtful because she was looking “fixedly before her”. You can also tell that this woman is weak because she was embracing her knees with a painful expression across her face and she didn’t do anything about how her bonnet fell back. She let her bonnet fall back, revealing her wavy streams of hair. This shows how weak the character was because she didn’t have enough strength to even fix her bonnet.
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“Breaking Dawn” By: Stephanie Meyer p. 532
“The necklace was simple-gold woven into a thick rope of a chain, almost scaled, like a smooth snake that would curl close around the throat.”(p. 532)
This passage uses a clear simile. It does so by comparing (using “like) the thick “rope of a chain” to a smooth scaled snake. To a degree this would also be an example of personification but the passage is using the chain and comparing it to a rope. Meyer uses many similes such as this throughout the book, but this one was in my opinion, her most interesting one. It surprised me that the necklace described in this passage was so simple because as stated previously in the story, it belongs to the Volturi, the very powerful and wealthy clan of head vampires. The Volturi had mostly been described as high-class snobbish vampires, and yet the jewels they have received from many generations ago are plain and ordinary looking. Perhaps the necklace could symbolize something, or it could be foreshadowing an upcoming event involving the necklace and what it symbolizes (Bella becoming a vampire). Stephanie Meyer only uses similes in her writing, from what I have seen, in foreshadowing and symbolism.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe pg.395
“When he first bought her, she was, as she had said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality. But, at this time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.”
This passage demonstrates Cassy, the female slave’s, power over Legree, the plantation owner. It is an effective use of irony, or an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected because, in this time period, women and slaves had no authority. A slave woman having any sort of influence over a man who supposedly has complete power over her is ironic. While living with Legree, Cassy fosters a great hatred for most everything as expressed in the quote “hardened womanhood within her”. This sort of violence and negativity is not common in Stowe’s other female character’s. Most of the women are portrayed as being spiritual and morally conscientious. The fact that Cassy is not highly idealized might also be considered ironic by people familiar with Stowe’s style of writing. The manner in which Cassy contrasts with other females in the novel, either by her authority or her iniquity is what makes her an important part of this work of literature. Cassy developed as a character and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing was enhanced by the use of the literary technique that is irony.
Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman -pg 30
“I don’t know what she is. Sometimes she acts like a heroine of an epic fantasy novel and sometimes she acts like she’s about nine years old, which might be cute if she didn’t kill people. But if you tried to make up a list of reasons why a person would look and act like she does, ‘fairy’ would be about the least likely. Maybe it just suits her to say that - better than ‘wacky elective surgery’ or ‘spy from evil wasp-persons,’ or whatever it is that made her this way. God knows, my story is no better than hers.”
The above passage is describing the female superhero “Damsel”. The literary technique expressed in the above paragraph was a metaphor. The hilarity can somewhat distract the reader from the descriptive words used to describe Damsel, but the metaphors are obvious in this passage. The narrator compares Damsel to the somewhat stereotypical view of a heroine, and the hilarious comparison to a nine year old. A side note in this paragraph would be is his comparison to a nine year old, despite her ‘killing people’, which in reality is true because of Damsels violent past. Earlier in the story we get another taste of a “nine year old” as Damsel is afraid to go into battle, because of her petty needs and fears. At other times we get the heroine of an epic fantasy novel, with Damsel fighting against the corrupted wasp-persons in a strong battle. The reaction the narrator has for Damsel could be a on-and-off liking, which we will develop later in the story to our interest.
“Elijah of Buxton” by Christopher Paul Curtis p. 75
“…So’s he went from being music-ish to being machine-ish, which is what the Preacher said Mr. Leroy was. He said he’d heard Mr. Leroy’s heart beating in his chest and that ’stead of sounding like it was made out of flesh and blood, it banged and pounded like it was made out of pure iron!”
This is an example of metaphor because Mr. Leroy is not really “machine-ish”, but the Preacher thinks he is because of the sounds he thought he heard coming from Mr. Leroy’s heart were more robotic than human. At the moment, Mr. Leroy was “felling” trees, or cutting them down, and the rhythmic sounds made by the axe made Elijah think back to what the Preacher said. In Elijah’s Settlement, the Preacher is not very respected because of the stories he makes up to scare the children, but Elijah thinks highly of him, and listens closely when he says something.
Literary Luminary pg. # 80
Sensory Language
Passage: “The air smells this morning like it has just come out of the wash. The sun is still low, casting white, opaque light. The ocean is quiet but beginning to whoosh as if it is getting in gear for the things it has planned for our day. As if it is time’s great internal-combustion engine. The mist patches run across the wet sand, late to work. It is commuting mist.”
Response: Having used four of our five senses in the paragraph it shows use of sensory language. It also shows signs of personification in some places. This technique helps make the writing better because it helps of visualize this scene in book better. It helps us feel what the author perhaps felt while she wrote this passage. Without the sensory language the passage would look and sound something like this:
The air smells this morning. The sun is low. I don’t hear the ocean but then again I do hear it. I see mist, late to work commuting mist.
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini p.25
Passage: “Be honest. You dote upon her words as if each one were a diamond, and your gaze lingers upon her as if you were starving and she a grand feast arrayed an inch beyond you reach.”
This quote is mainly an example of a simile. Roran uses similes to describe to Eragon how he can see Eragon’s true feeling for the elf named Arya. He says that Eragon “dotes upon her words as if each one were a diamond” when he we get the impression that Eragon is so in love with Arya that even her words entrance him. We also get the impression that Eragon pays a lot of attention to her because in the time period that the story is set in, diamond were very precious, and a person would take time out of every day just to car for their diamonds. Next in the quote Roran use a simile and a metaphor to describe Eragon’s love. He says that Eragon’s gaze is like that of a “starving” man (simile) and Arya is a “grand feast” just an “inch” beyond his reach. The “starving” and the “grand feast” part imply that Eragon wants to be with her very much, but the “inch beyond your reach” tells us that Eragon has either been rejected or there is an obstacle in the way of him pursuing a relationship with her. Christopher Paolini shows an great examples of using similes and metaphors to tell of one feelings with out just coming out and bluntly saying them.
“Messenger” by Lois Lowry p. 76
“ ‘He knows his true name already!’ Matty knelt beside the puppy and stroked the little head. ‘Good puppy,’ he said. The big brown eyes gazed up at him and the spotted body, still sprawled obediently on the floor, quivered with affection.”
This passage is an example of imagery. Lois Lowry also displays her use of figurative language by adding the words “sprawled” and “quivered”. In this scene, I can really visualize what the image the author was seeing when she was writing this book. From this passage, it is evident that Matty is a nice and gentle person by the way he speaks to the puppy and the way he strokes its head. I think that this passage enhances the authors writing because earlier in the book Matty tells Jean, “I have a way with dogs”. By the way the puppy gazes up at him while remaining on the floor (where Matty told him to lay), and by the way he “quivered with affection,” I really do get a sense that Matty has a way with dogs.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe pg.#472
“ I’m a thinkin’ my old man won’t know de boys and de baby. Lor’ she’s de biggest gal, now, -good she is, too, and peart, Polly is.”
This is an example of dialect when Aunt Chloe is telling Mrs. Shelby that Uncle Tom will not recognize his own children because he has been gone so long. This passage helps me to understand that Aunt Chloe is a slave and that many of her people have suffered much in their lifetimes. This situation also turns out to be ironic, because the reader is expecting Uncle Tom to come home and everything will be right again, but Uncle Tom is already dead.
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“Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer, pg. 400
“I reached my hand out, my fingers trembling slightly, and touched the red-brown fur on the side of his face.
The black eyes closed, and Jacob leaned his huge head into my hand. A thrumming hum resonated in this throat.
The fur was both soft and rough, and warm against my skin. I ran my fingers through it curiously, learning the texture, stroking his neck where the color deepened.”
This passage shows sensory language. Bella describes Jacob’s fur as being “red-brown”, and later on she stroked his neck, “where the color deepened.” She also says he has black eyes. These sentences use the sense of sight, describing the look of his fur and color of his eyes. Also using the sense of sight, she says his head is huge, helping us to visualize the wolf. Using the sense of hearing, she says “a thrumming hum resonated from this throat”. We can assume the wolf was “purring”, in a way similar to cats. She describes the feel of Jacob’s fur as being “both soft and rough, and warm”. This whole passage helps the reader to visualize Bella’s encounter with Jacob as a wolf for the first time, as the readers who have read the previous books know she has had two very limited encounters with Jacob as a wolf. In “New Moon” she sees him in the meadow with Laurent, and again when Paul gets angry and turns into a wolf, when Jacob tries to protect Bella. Both times she only saw him, and from a distance. This passage also helps the reader visualize later scenes in the book, helping with the overall visualization of the book.
‘’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’’ by Harriet Beecher Stowe p.296
‘’The silver, fair browned moon rose in the purple sky, and looked down, calm and silent, as God looks on the scene of misery and oppression, - looked calmly on the lone black man, as he sat, with his arms folded, and his Bible on his knee. ’’
This passage displays a metaphor. By reading this passage the reader can really look what the slaves were going through at the time. They know that this is a terrible place, even for a slave in that time period. Harriet Beecher Stowe even described the moon and the sky in very sad colors in my opinion. Also she uses the moon in a way as the moon is God and the Sky is heaven. The moon at night looks down on a dark Earth as God would look down on Earth in one of there most shameful and disgraceful time periods in America’s history. This passage is filled with little metaphors inside the main one.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by: Harriet Beecher Stowe pg.219
" St.Clare's fine countenace was for a moment overcast; he looked annoyed, but suddenly calling up a gay smile, he said, Come, cousin, don't stand there look like one of the Fates; you've only seen a peep through the curtain- a specimen of what is going on, the world is over, in some shape or other. If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life we should have no heart to anything. 'Tis like looking too close into the details of Dinah's kitchen,' and St.Clare lay back on the sofa, and busied himself with his paper."
This quote from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows irony. This is a huge display of irony on St.Clare's part. As i was reading through this story St.Clare seemed like a very humane character. He treated all of his slaves with a deep respect. He never seemed like he would harm anyone or anything. In this part of the story, Miss Ophelia has witnessed a beating of a slave who belongs to another slave owner. Miss Ophelia is wondering why St.Clare isn't doing anything about it. I personally thought St.Clare would take a stand, and take up for the slave that was beaten. Miss Ophelia thought this also, " 'an't you going to do anything about it?' said Miss Ophelia.". When St.Clare responded to Miss Ophelia by brushing it off and telling her " 'I can't buy every poor wretch I see. I can't turn knight-errant, and undertake to redress every individual case of wrong in such a city as this.' " This really shocked me. I thought St.Clare would take over. I thought he would go handle the situation by stopping them from beating their slaves,or at least try to prevent them from doing it again. Or I thought he would go buy the slave that was beaten, and save him from ever getting beaten again. However, St.Clare reacted completely different than I thought he would. This is important to the story because this shows a lot of depth to St.Clares character. It tells me that even though in my opinion he may the most humane character in a since of the way he treats his slaves, there is always a different side to someone you may never know about. I also kind of understand where St.Clare is coming from though. It makes since that he didn't do anything about the beating of the slave, beacuse there were many slaves getting beaten, and St.Clare didn't have the power or the money, to save each and everyone of them. So in a since this does show irony. But, after thinking about the situation i understand why St.Clare did what he did. = )
GHOSTGIRL
AUTHOR : Tonya Hurley
Page : 128
(P. 128)
Attach here.
An attachment to something or someone is holding on to the belief that a certain thing
or person will fulfill you. Attachments keep us alive. They make us strive either to
keep what we have or to pursue what we want. But sometimes they can also stick us
in neutral, running in circles and getting nowhere. Charlotte was stuck, that much was sure.
(reason)
This is Personification. I chose this quote because I thought the comparison of how attachment
can keep us running in circles, like if a car was set in neutral.I also felt I could relate to this too.
Like how I'm so attached to my wristband I've been wearing since 5th grade, I just feel so
empty when I'm not wearing it.In Charlotte's case, she just can't let go of her love Damen, but
she has to in order to help her classmates and herself passover.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
pg. 343
Passage: "O, Miss Eva! oh, Miss Eva! I wish I's dead too,-I do!"
This is an example of dialect. It show's the mispronunciation of "I was", which I think is important, because it really sets the setting of the South during this time of slavery. I think it also show that slaves never reall got the proper education they would need to succeed in the world.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, page 154
‘”Oh! Master, this vest all stained with wine; of course, a gentleman in master’s standing never wears a vest like this. I understood I was to take it. …”’
This is an example of dialect. The person who says the quote is a slave named Adolph. His grammar is better than other slaves’. The fact that he speaks with good grammar shows what kind of person his master is. His master, Mr. St Clare, treats his slaves like his children, rather than slaves. Adolph knowing how to talk with better grammar shows a lot about the personality about St Clare. This is the first time that the reader is introduced to one of his slaves. The personality of St Clare and how it will affect the story are made clear by the difference of how Adolph acts and talks and how other people’s slaves talk. Tom will have a different kind of home and things will be happy for Tom, better than it has been in the past. This also lets the reader know that something really bad might happen to take Tom from this good situation because this quote isn't near the end of the book and there is most likely going to be more conflict. This is good use of dialect because it shows a lot about the personality of some characters and gives the reader a sense of what is going to happen in this part of the story all through one quote.
“Alicia: My Story” by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Page 127
Passage: “I pulled back my hand. “No!” I cried. “I love this ring. It’s the only thing I have left. Please, Lala.” I turned to her, pleading.”
Response: In this passage, Alicia’s whole world is personified in the ring. After losing her father and almost all of her brothers and being separated from her mother, she travels back to Buczacz to meet up with her mother and her one remaining brother. While she is in Buczacz, she retrieves the ring from a hole in the wall and seems to believe it is all she had left; fearing her mother and brother had been killed in the latest action. The ring was given to her by Milek, whom she was “madly in love with”; also personifying the friend that saved her while she was taken in an action. After having everything taken away from her, having the ring was very important to her and she did not want to give it up. She stored it inside of the wall, promising to come back to retrieve it, fearing that if she brought it with her, it would be taken like her earrings earlier in the book. It also personifies the earrings she lost in jail, the only bit of her pervious life she had left, the only belonging from her life before Nazis Germany took over Poland. The ring symbolizes her family, her friend, and her belongings. The ring really did personify her entire world.
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