Thirteen Reasons Why Figurative Language

I chose to read this part from The New Kids by Brooke Hauser since it was quite an impactful part. The larger plot of this book was not focused on simply one main character, but a large array of them. Rather than the students' lives as a whole, it was often of the current events, and the reflections on the events leading up to now. For the most part, this book was on the current lives of the students and what they've gone through to reach their current status in life. This selection fits into the larger plot by being a prime example of what the students of International High School at Prospect Heights may go through to leave for the possibility of a new life or better chances. This particular part gave a look at how desperate many are to leave

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

Eleven is a story that talks about a little girl named Rachel who turns eleven, but feels as if she is anything but. She says it takes her months before she can remember that she is in fact, eleven. The author also says that we will never just be one age we will be three sometimes and cry and cry until our hearts ache no more. Or sometimes you need someone to hold you and tell you everything is okay, this part of you is five. In the short story ‘Eleven’ the author uses many literary devices like figurative language, imagery, and repetition.

Many different forms of figurative language I used throughout the story to exhilarate the irony. The opening description of Ethan is full of ironic expressions. Figurative language is also used to the describe reactions to events in the story. The author is very descriptive in this short story. The use of figurative language aids in description of events, the setting, mood, and characters’ appearance and response. Edith Wharton, the author, use of literary devices allows the story to come alive and to also require the reader to think deeply about the true meanings.

Straight towards the house the wind blew like a flash, whipped open the shutters, and tore off the sash. In The Yearling, winds of this caliber are described by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling is a tale of a young boy named Jody living in central Florida as the only surviving child of his parents. His parents are convinced, by Jody, to let him keep a fawn to a doe his father had recently harvested. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 because of her poetic depiction and description through the utilization of sensory details, figurative language, and syntax for effect.

The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926, won Hughes his first poetry prize. Hughes is a well-known African American poet who often wrote about the struggles for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, he uses figurative language in the poem to describe loneliness and despair, and the relationship between the speaker and performer, in order to make the reader better understand the blues.

Every morning, a 71 year-old male stranger accompanies me on my way to school. I only know of his name, but I enjoy his company and chuckle as he comments on my generation’s use of language. Yet once NPR’s linguistic segment of Fresh Air ends, Geoff Nunberg’s witty remarks fade into the abyss. In the quietness of the car, I am left to revel in my own passion for languages: a transformative journey through Spanish and Chinese.

No matter what lifestyle you’re born into you can still be a better person. Some people are born into terrible lives and some lives become worse. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton most of the gang’s lives become worse. The gang faces the other gang and murder takes over gang member’s lives. They face other gang’s and the police. They even face the chance of death and their own families not caring. However, even with all of these issues so to speak, the gang still sticks together and lives their same lifestyle. In The Outsiders the author uses figurative language, both sides of the characters, and a lot of description to show how the characters still push on through tough times.

1. Figurative Language: As Eric Schlosser is introducing Carl N. Karcher in the opening pages of the novel; he refers to his life as a tale by Horatio Alger, growing from modest upbringings, to establish a fast food empire. This quote uses an allusion to the talented author of Horatio Alger whose works often revolve around working middle class fighting adversity to become wealthy, which is the fulfillment of the American dream. Karcher’s life resembles a real life story that can be illustrated by Alger in one of his works comparing his upscale to greatness by pioneering ideas changing the way Americans eat and live.

There are so many different types of figurative language you can use in an essay to engage your audience. The types of different figurative languages are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, cliché, idioms, personifications, and alterations. Simile uses the words like or as. For example, “as brave as a lion or crazy like a fox.” Metaphor is a similarity made among two unconnected items, but distribute some usual features. For example, "the curtain of night" or "all the world's a stage." Hyperbole is an embellishment of thoughts for importance. For example, the word “over-casting.” Irony is a more interesting method of expression in which words are utilized as a part of such a route, to the point that their proposed significance is not the same

Question #1: Make a list of 3 instances of figurative language used by the poet. What type of figurative language is used (identify your examples as simile or metaphor) and what is being compared.

At the age of 11, Rachel is expected to be either in 5th or 6th grade. Being a teacher, from experience in this age, children are usually on the bridge of being the sweet kid, who puts an apple on their favorite teachers desk, and learning retaliation with other negative actions from their peers. On this bridge, Rachel will be found somewhere in the middle. In other words, her actions and choice of diction showcase different ages; repetitively, Rachel reflects that she does not “feel” eleven. For example, her figurative language consists of her cries imitating animal noises and her head hurting because of drinking milk too fast. On the other hand, she does not act too young because this student shows clear distaste for certain student by calling

The author uses figurative language to describe to the reader how the characters are feeling, by giving multiple actions and examples in the author’s writing. “A final, soaking farewell was let go of, and they turned and left the cemetery, looking back several times.” (Page 24.) This evidence supports my answer by giving a setting of the “soaking farewell,” showing how gloomy it was and the passage describe how Liesel didn’t want to let go of her brother.

An author can take advantage of figurative language for many reasons. Usually the author uses figurative language to make the writing more interesting for whatever crowd they are aim for, despite the many other uses of figurative language. Some of the examples they can use are simile, metaphor, imagery, hyperbole, and foreshadowing. All examples do different things for a writing. Simile is comparing 2 or more things using like or as. Metaphor is an exaggeration not meant to be taken seriously, this just adds a little fun for the reader and maybe even a little laugh or chuckle. Imagery is using descriptive words to help a reader see, hear, taste, smell, or feel what the author is writing about. Hyperbole is kind of like metaphor, they have the

“Somewhere beyond the sinkhole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.” A quote from none other than Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of the book The Yearling who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 because of her use of sensory details, syntax, and figurative language. Throughout her novel, Rawlings artistically illustrated sensory details very well to explain what the boy was feeling, what the boy was tasting, and what the boy was smelling that strengthened her writing. For example, on page seven Rawlings said, “There were no black boles of live oak, no glossy green of magnoli, no pattern of gold lae where the sun had sifted through the branches of the wild cherry.” The description of the sun shine through the trees beginning to fade enhanced the fact that the day was coming closer to an end and night time was soon to come. Also, the departure of the live oak and glossy green magnoli showed the end of the day as well. Another example of sensory details used is on page 224 when Rawlings said, “He took it up on the bed with him. The morning, however, was clear, but the east was the color of blood.” The author used blood to create a more personal image of the morning that connects the sun rise to the human body. This, in return, symbolized that death was inevitable and it was soon to come. A final example of Rawlings use of sensory details is on page 224 when she says, “The skies turned so black that the