INTRODUCTION Descriptive and figurative language is a way for an author to express and bring their characters’ life and experiences to life. Descriptive language is used to create images that appeal to the reader’s senses. Helping the reader to get a clear picture of how the subject looks, feels, smell or taste. In Vertigo, Amanda Lohrey uses descriptive language to bring the characters to life. She uses this to layer the emotions as they lead up to the climax. Figurative language helps boosts the creativity of the reader. Lohrey has used figurative language to help make a situation or experience more relatable and understandable. ANNA & LUKE’S CHANGE TO THE COUNTRY -Lohrey effectively uses a number of techniques to describe people’s …show more content…
Jack, the son and main character of the film, is living in an 11-by-11 box of a living space. It has a small skylight that allows some of the nature to shine through. The room was created by Ma, the mother, to keep Jack safe and with here at all times. Ma took care of Jack and turned him into a bright, energetic, healthy bundle of happiness. Much like the boy in Vertigo, Jack is Ma’s anchor and her reason to carry on. The escape scene is a prime example of Jack leaving the room and exploring the outside world. Jack’s first glimpse of the outside world is a forest; the diegetic sounds informs us that the only thing within earshot is nature. The blurry vision as Jack looks up symbolises a sense of uncertainty about the decision he’s made. The colours of the world are sombre and dark. Jack’s fist real glance at the world bright, he sees the sky and trees and almost gets lost in its beauty. The contrast of colour choice between the room and the world is significant and obvious, this excites the viewer as it shows that he is free and a new chapter in his life is about to begin. Abrahamson shows the awestruck expression on Jack’s face by use a bird’s eye view of the boy, this is effective because we see a slight fear but excitement in his eyes. The camera angles are a useful better perspective on his view on the world. While Jack is running the camera man slows down into slow motion and we see Jack is terrified of …show more content…
The boy is never named but is clearly a big impact on Anna’s life more so than Luke’s. The boy comes and goes as he pleases. On the journey to find a new place it is “to their great delight, on each of these journeys, the boy chose to accompany them. (pg.10). From the series of vivid images that Lohrey uses to describe the boy, it is clear that she is trying to bring to life the imagined relationship between Anna, Luke and their deceased son. This is a form of loss but also confuses the reader a little as the boy is, in fact, a figment of their shared, as well as individual, imagination. The boy often appears, positive and playful and real. Often the boy appears to play alongside them, whirling around in the dust or darting mischievously among the weed piles and throwing clumps of weed into the air.” (pg. 24) showing that the boy still has his playful nature. The boy’s playful personality contrasts all the destruction and hurts the bushfire has caused Anna and Luke at the current time. As the book goes on Lohrey uses descriptive language to portray that anxiety of Anna when the boy is not around. A tone of awareness forms from the imagined relationship as we realise that it was not last forever. This is presented to the reader as a metaphor as well as figurative language. “Since she returned from the city he eludes her; she sees him nowhere, and this making her unhinged…Something is dying, something is leeching
So he agrees to take some vacation time. He takes himself and his family on a vacation or family camp c called patterville Up north. Where families and people can pretend the world isn’t going to hell. There all happy going swimming, hiking going to the beach meeting new people. But jack just couldn’t help but feel uneasy thinking it
For the entire duration of the poem, the reader is able to infer how the complexity of the relationship changes and how the father feels about his son through the techniques and methods stated above. Within A Story, Lee uses point of view from both characters to convey the idea that the father’s relationship with his son is indeed, increasingly complex. The reader also learns from this point of view technique that the time of thought within the poem constantly changes. The boy’s young age is shown clearly in the beginning of the poem as: “His five-year-old son waits in his lap.”
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the author, Richard Connell uses the wonders of figurative language to spice things up in many ways throughout the story. Almost every page had something lying within itself, hidden behind metaphors similes, personification, and the list goes on. Some examples of how Richard Connell uses figurative language were clearly displayed on page 62: “Didn’t you notice that the crew’s nerves were a bit jumpy today?” This page also began to reveal the main feeling/emotion of the story(eerie/suspicious) came to be-which was set off by the example I used above. In this scene, the author uses very descriptive words and/or adjectives in his choice(s) of figurative language when he writes, “There was no breeze.
From then on you are constantly paying close attention to Jack and his behavior. One of visual foreshadowing is when Jack is in the hallway. In two different scenes parts but similar there is a teddy bear doll
“As you can see, although I’ve always loved writing I’m not the best speller, as this cover shows.” Throughout the book she would include pictures of her personal diary that she kept during captivity and there were a lot of spelling mistakes. When she had to go on “runs” with Philip she always used imagery to describe the pain she felt and when she was being kidnapped she used imagery to describe the stun gun he used to capture her. She used similis when she had sex with Philip. The language is plain throughout the book with a few figurative language.
Throughout the entire novel, the author’s use of literary devices is very clear. These literary devices, specifically similes and personification, help the reader get a better idea of the exact sounds and feelings which will allow them to know what it feels like to be there in that moment. “ I stood there, trying to think of a comeback, when suddenly, I heard a whooshing sound, like the sound you get when you open a vacuum-sealed can of peanuts. Then the brown water that had puddled up all over the field began to move. It began to run toward the back portables, like someone pulled the plug out of a giant bathtub.
The mood throughout the story is quite mysterious. In the beginning, we meet the children who are exceedingly afraid of the Jack-in-the-box. Another significant fact is that no one knows where the toy has come from – it seems that the author wants the reader to believe that the toy haphazardly appeared. Something that is also noteworthy to mention is the description of the toy. The phrase ‘he’ is being
Figurative Language can help improve a story because it helps you visualize the story and help engage the reader into the
The author also uses descriptive adjectives. He uses these and makes them work into the story very well. “graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows”. The author uses descriptive language when describing the setting to help set the eerie mood of the story. “small, pale green kitchen”.
Dillard implements imagery all throughout her essay, which gives the reader a clear picture of the events occurring. For instance, she describes her husband “gesturing inside a circle of darkness” as a result of him gradually travelling farther away from her (Dillard). Ultimately, the use of imagery in this case represents the loneliness the narrator begins to feel. The author also utilizes metaphors to get her message across. Dillard compares “grammar and lexicon” to a “decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel” because without the other, they will not be able to fulfill their purpose (Dillard).
Yet, in the beginning of the novel, he quit drinking and seems to take control over his life. He seems to have the will to better himself and take care of his family. He sees his job on the Overlook, as a way of reconciliating with his family and to pursue his dream job, writing a play. Although it started of as a good idea, the Overlook eventually takes over Jack. On a more realistic kind of horror, Jack is a human that is struggling with himself.
(1). He uses the rhetorical device of figurative language to give the reader a strong image of his feeling
Different types of figurative language can change the different readers point of view and the nature of the story. The author of “Kind of a Murder”, Hugh Pentecost, uses figurative language multiple times in his short story, one being the amount of times onomatopoeia was used to the sad parts of the story. In the Morgan MIlitary Academy, it seemed everyone was afraid around the nicknamed headmaster, Old Beaver,at Morgan Military. So when the students heard him coming down the hall in a particular scene, the story reads the sound of shoes, using onomatopoeia. In the text it reads “ordinally his shoes squeaked.
This is shown when the characters in this novel speak out against a concept they know nothing about. Therefore, the literary terms an author uses can make an immense impact to the connections the reader makes to a novel, and help to shape a theme that is found throughout
This action shows that the boy obviously misses his father and wants him to come back. He had no one else and now is all alone in the world. The boy is sad because his father died, but also because of his desolation from life. The boy is so secluded from life, he weeps for his