Writing Techniques In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Imagery is a literary device to help enhance the quality, relatability, and detail in a story. An ample example of rich sensory language can be found in Farah Ahmedi’s book, “The other side of the sky”. In her book, Ahmadi uses bountiful sensory language to create an atmosphere of the emotions she felt when this situation was taking place, but also utilizes imagery to truly bring the characters to life and makes it abundantly clear that these were real people Ahmedi interacted with. Just in the limited excerpt we read, it’s extremely apparent how Ahmedi was feeling throughout her and her mother’s attempt at crossing the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. This can best be seen through looking at a snippet of the excerpt: “It was hard for me to keep my footing, and my mother was clutching my arm now, just hanging on, just trying to stay close to me, because the worst thing would have been if we had gotten separated.

details.for example,”when I looked up.the lady's eyes met mine” .This is a good example of sensory language because it is showing that there is a moment between the saleslady and the narrator. Another literary device that Gary Soto uses is Figurative language. One example of figurative language is,“that was so bright against the gray of december” this is a good example of figurative language because it sets the setting of where they are making the theme

The Nazi’s were horrible and did many things to people who are unimaginable. According to Elie Wiesel in the memoir night, published in 2006, and by Oprah’s interview with Eliezer Wiesel at Auschwitz one technique the Nazi’s used to get what they wanted from the prisoners was mind games to trick them into doing things. To begin, the holocaust was a horrible time in history and millions of people died from the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s used mind games to get the prisoners to go into the “shower” which, according to Oprah in her interview with Elie, “when they were inside the door was shut and they were in a gas chamber.”

Ray Bradbury also used lots of dialogue whenever he was explaining why they bought the nursery in the first place and what they expected instead of what happened in the story. Another detail the author used was foreshadowing. When George said there was his leather wallet, covered in blood, smelling like grass and hot to the touch, foreshadowing

The Holocaust was the wide scale murder and extermination of Jews during the Nazi Regime. The Holocaust was undoubtedly a world-changing reality of World War II. Approximately six million Jews died during the Holocaust. Jews were placed in concentration (extermination) camps and forced to work until their subsequent, often inevitable, death.

For example ¨Ï just stared at the doorknob which was so polished I could see my reflection in its gleaming surface. Him describing how clean and shiny the doorknob showed that he had not experienced cleanliness since moving to North Korea. This quote allowed readers to fully understand the low point of the character's life. Ishiwawa uses sensory imagery to describe what he wants but ultimately cannot have. ¨The sweet smell of candy permeated the air¨.

Imagery in Storytelling Imagery is a literary device that is a key component of short stories. It improves a reader's experience of the story by appealing to their senses and allowing them to visualize the world where the story takes place. Imagery can also make the reader curious about the purpose of certain descriptions, and help the reader understand the world and people being described. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe are two short stories that make use of imagery to do these things.

Readers always think “what is the purpose for this”? As well,  details have great importance to a story, especially when dealing with characters and setting. As readers, the characters in a story become almost lifelike to the reader, and

I think that visuals help people understand things better because when they read descriptive words they immeditaly conjure mental images. For example the part when it is talking about the teacher it says ,“The teachers mouth watered as, in his mind’s eye, he saw future meals.” This example can easily be visuald because when it says that, the reader can picture in their mind someone’s mouth being filled with saliva because they’re so hungry. Also, as a reader, this makes the character relatable. Most people have been so hungry that their mouth

The use of imagery is important to the story because the author is able to form images in the reader 's mind about the way that certain events unraveled in the story and to describe the appearance of certain objects and places in the story. An example of how the use of imagery was used in the story to describe an event was when the daughters father ran out of the house to shoot some crows because he believed that it was an American tradition, “father heard a

“She brushed her brown hair out of her face” shows how this technique allows the reader to stay present in the story, having the ability to see what my character looks like. This was shown to me in Marilyn Chin’s poem “The Floral Apron” in the quote “The woman wore a floral apron around her neck’ describing the main character of the poem. Descriptive language adds depth to the characters and also the overall narrative.

Words have the amazing power of helping us understand what is happening in a story and they can also help understand what the circumstances are simply form the setting. In the stories The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers the authors use descriptive language to develop the setting. Nancy farmer uses descriptive language throughout The House of the Scorpion to help develop the setting. One example is when Nancy Farmer describes a view out of a window by saying “He looked out the window where fields of white

While I was focused on the main portrayal of reminiscences, I decided to implement visual imagery through the extreme use of descriptive language ‘Through a small tear in the fabric, I gazed into the dark abyss of clouds… The crystal tears bulleted down…. The steel tent creaked trying to fight off the howling winds.’ This was to communicate a stronger connection to the reader’s visual interpretation, creating a more significant perception of the protagonist's view and setting. This conveyed the understanding of the significance that an individual's vision can have, as eyes are the windows to our souls, taking in every memory that we experience.

One example can be someone telling you about how there was a car crash and you explain how a drunk driver was swerving lane to lane and hit a blue SUV in the rest end leaving a huge dent. If you pictured what was just said; that's imagery. In (Summary 1) the author says "The toothless creature is bald and dressed in rags". When you think about it you would picture that it is an ugly animal.

After she receives the bad news, Mrs. Mallard observes the wilderness and her environment. Chopin writes, “But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.” This example of imagery helps the reader compare Mrs. Mallard's feelings to her surrounding environment. This is imagery because it is a visual representation of the main character's environment. This helps the reader understand how Mrs. Mallard feels or how the figure that reaches toward her wants her to feel.