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Where do we go when we die? This question has puzzled people for many of years and still goes on unanswered today. In the short story “Pigeon Feathers,” John Updike explores the answer to this question through the eyes of a young boy named David. Updike utilizes figurative language throughout the story, along with an ominous tone to take the reader through David's quest leading up to his final epiphany. There is an immense amount of symbolism all throughout the short story that Updike uses to create a deep meaning.

Gerry Boyle and Stephan King are two of the more popular Main authors who both specialize in creating fictional mystery and action novels. Even though both of the author’s novels are set in the state of Maine and can be categorized under the same two words, they both bring you into two very different stories. Focusing on the literary elements imagery, character development and theme we can easily compare and contrast Gerry Boyle’s Port City Shakedown and Blaze by Stephan King. Imagery is a very important literary element in a story and depending on the person, can be the one element that determines whether a book is interesting, or not. Blaze and Port City Shakedown have some similar and some different ways of depicting the state of

Hannah Taulealea Ms.Wilson Block 2: Night Essay rough draft 19 April 2017 Inhumanity to Humans In the heart-rending and powerful book Night by Eli Wiesel, inhumanity and great mistreatment toward the people of the Jewish religion during the times of the Holocaust are described throughout using stylistic elements such as: Imagery and figurative language. Eli Wiesel incorporates these elements often in his book which helps the readers to understand the idea of inhumanity quite clearly. Imagery is used strongly in this book and it’s especially shown at many points during. It helps to aid the reader’s thought process and imagination of what happened in the story by using specifics such as words and phrases to help one

During the 1830s, the Great Depression took over America’s brightness and joy, shattering the American spirit. Citizens searched for a light to help people get their lives back together. During this searching, they found Seabiscuit to bring them hope. Seabiscuit is a racing horse that received the right trainer and rider to make him a legend. Seabiscuit’s story is beautifully portrayed in Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Seabiscuit.

Imagery helps us understand the actions or feeling in something In the story where they say “I felt melted gum and chips of broken beer bottles on my lips and cheek. ”(Line 5) This shows how one side of the train tracks has better stuff and more luxuries and they are kinda spoiled so they don’t care about when they litter They also say in the story that “he slid to the ground, like a rotten banana squeezed out of its peeling”(Line 7) This lets you imagine a better look of what is happening because just like a rotten banana it is bruised and gooey Imagery is something that is used to express a deeper meaning or feeling based on words or feelings.

Imagery allows a reader to imagine the events of a story within their mind through mental images. Imagery can describe how something looks, a sound, a feeling, a taste, or a smell. Imagery is especially important when the author is describing a character or a setting. The short story The Man In The Black Suit by Stephen King has several excellent examples of imagery.

The author’s use of imagery in the short story, “One Mile of Ice” conveys the relentless struggle between the protagonists and their environment. Hugh Garner uses imagery to convey how the protagonists feel during their struggle with the environment. The environment around them is quite frigid. Pete becomes extremely cold, but “[h]e [is] not only cold in a sensory way, his face, legs, and hands, but deep inside him the freezing wind seemed to . . . [penetrate] and [reduce] the temperature of his whole body” (Garner 21).

Imagery is a literary device that uses descriptive wording to put a vivid image of a scenario in your mind. Dickens uses imagery to describe the scenery and the change in Scrooge’s physical appearance throughout the course of the story. “eezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self- contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.

He soiled Amaterasu’s land hoping it would destroy the plants, and then Susanoo threw a colt into the heavens to startle Amaterasu. After, Amaterasu furiously locked herself in a cave. The plants could no longer grow, and the people could no longer survive without the sun. As a consequence of Amaterasu’s disappearance, the world was cast in total darkness and evil spirits ran riot over the earth. All the Gods tried to get Amaterasu back by placing offerings of fine cloth, rich jewels, combs, and mirrors, which they hung upon a sakaki tree.

[the old waiter] as well as many of Hemingway’s other fictional heroes discover that by not thinking they can avoid the emotional pain associated with those thoughts” (1996:203); that is why the man needs a café open late at night. “A Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” is described as a tale which definitely questions morality. There is Francis who is actually the weakest from the characters. His wife is the one who want to dictate rules. Their marriage is a perfect example of a relation-ship without proper communication.

Imagery can be so beautiful and vivid, it really engulfs you into the reading. It holds significance because we as humans like for things to be drawn out for us or painted out. Creating a narrative that's easy to understand, of course no one wants a story that's filled with misconception. Imagery provides a deeper connection with the deeper and takes the reader back to a time or a place just like repetition.

Examples of imagery are found in the lyrics such as, “You would not believe your eyes/ If ten million fireflies/ lit up the world as I fell asleep/ ‘Cause they fill the open air/ And leave teardrops everywhere.” There are many more found in the text such as, “ ‘Cause I’d get a thousand hugs/ From ten thousand lightning bugs/ As they tried to teach me how to dance.

Evidently, the imagery in this reading sets the mood as dark and gloomy, reflecting on the situation soon to

“A Short Guide to Imagery, Symbolism, and Figurative Language Imagery” describes imagery as “a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation”(Clark). In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses nature imagery to portray the journey of emotions that Mrs. Mallard experiences

The most powerful pharaohs of Egypt will be forever immortalized within history. However, in the case of Ozymandias (Ramses II) his statue, as a representation of him, is left in the dust of the sands, decrepit in the place that was once his kingdom of Thebes (GCSE). In Percy Shelley’s poem, “Ozymandias,” a Petrarchan sonnet, Shelley thoroughly disvalues Ramses within the realms of three speakers: The narrator, the traveler, and Ozymandias himself. Percy uses mostly both visual imagery and irony to narrate the lost accomplishments of a King, therefore conveying the mortality of personal glory.