Defending Jacob Figurative Language

This was an important step in learning how to accept herself and how to take better care of herself. Asking for help allowed her to realize she wasn’t okay and initiated her to make changes in order to take better care of herself and accept herself for who she is. For instance on page 150 she shows ways she has asked for help and how you don’t have to do it alone. She says “Whatever depression looks like to you, know that your experiences are valid. Reach out for help when you need it and never be ashamed of your story.

All of the writing helped her overcome all of the pain and suffering in her life. Writing can help everyone process their

Topic 3 Imagery is a rich literary element. It gives the reader a mental image, a sense of actually experiencing the event first-hand. if an author uses imagery properly, it can add a whole new dimension to a book. By interacting with a reader’s touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste, they can “feel” or “taste” the object in the book. The poems “Those Winter Sundays”, “miss rosie”, and “Conscientious Objector” all have rich usage of imagery.

Kambili refuses to implicate her father in his own acts of violence through the formulation of her sentences. She removes the blame from her phrases and in this way power relations are depicted through the use of specific linguistic choices and language placement. I wanted to say “Yes, Papa,” because he was right, but the burning on my feet was climbing up, in swift courses of excruciating pain, to my head and lips and eyes.” (194) Her admiration and respect for him causes her to remove the blame and ignore Eugene’s abusive actions. Kambili continuously removes agency from her statements when talking about her father.

The imagery is also powerful in this context because the audience watches as a condemned man starts to have a little hope, helping create an emotional investment in this man and his journey. The emotional investment then allows his argument to have even greater impact on the reader, as the argument is something that is relevant to someone they have an emotional connection

Title What does the expression of freedom mean? Asking this question would give a lot of different answers depending on the people asked because a word as broad as “freedom” has a variety of connotative meanings to different individuals. This disparity of the word “freedom is shown in the text of “The Story of an Hour” and “The Handmaid’s Tale”, and both texts explain these expressions of freedom through the stories main characters. In these stories, they convey this idea differently through different literary devices and expressions, which creates a contrast between the two stories.

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.

The consequence of our lack of information regarding the narrator’s trial and sentencing is that we cannot establish his level of guilt or innocence. Part of the effect of the story is dependent on an assumption of the prisoner’s relative innocence, particularly in the contact of the cruelty of the Inquisition. The narrator’s release from the Spanish Inquisitors by the French General Lasalle at the end of the story suggests that he may be a civil victim driven to his doom as a result of worldly conflicts rather than sin, predominantly since he was saved by the general himself and not by a lesser soldier. In addition, the protagonist’s inclination towards self-examination contributes to making him a compassionate victim rather than a justified

In the poem, “The Broken Heart” by John Dunne the theme of pain is supported through imagery and metaphors. Through the author’s vivid portrayals of tragedy, the reader understands that his idea of love is very bleak. In one stanza he states “[love] swallows us and never chaws….. He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry”.

What is resilience and is it possible to strength one’s inner self, even after adversity? Resilience is the ability to readily handle issues, and it is possible to cultivate more confidence that leads to resilience. Even though, those who do not attempt to improve to one’s self will have a more troubling time in conquering problems. However, the theme of overcoming conflict is displayed in a numerous amount of ways, as characterization, facts and details, and plot. The theme developed in the literary texts Defending Jacob, The Third and Final Continent, and The Art of Resilience is that overcoming adversity is necessary for success.

This brings the reader to the point of following Esther’s recovery process as she fights to be allowed back into society on her

In writing, using figurative language is like painting a picture with a vast palette of colors. Figurative language encompasses more than just creating a mental picture through a simile, and other examples include imagery, allusion, alliteration, and personification. Imagery creates a scene in the reader’s mind by engaging the senses; describing a crackling noise, smoky aroma, and frigid air gives the audience a mental picture of a bonfire without explicitly mentioning it. Allusion draws on a past experience, and could be applied by calling a bonfire a beacon of Gondor. Alliteration emphasizes a repeated letter or sound, and is often practiced in poems or play scripts.

She was the victim of so much negligence and abuse, she had no idea how to cope with the pain, but she went on living long after there was any hope in it. When she couldn’t cope with her well of sadness and shame, she did the only thing she knew how to do; she went against her own convictions and turned to prescrip- tion drugs. If she’d only had the tools and resources available in this guide, she may have come to terms with her shipwrecked life and found some peace. Luckily for us, she never had to deal with cancer, as that could have been the end of her. You don’t have to wind up in that old paradigm either.

As I mention above, responses to fear from different people in the novel indicate that the sense of fear, in fact, can be temporarily assuaged by irrational thoughts as well as distraction rather than rationality. However, one obvious problem of these strategies is that they can only reduce fear superficially but not essentially. To address this problem, several characters’ behaviors in the novel demonstrate that there is a more appropriate way to treat fear: accept it honestly rather than eliminating it immediately. Over the third part of the novel, a series of narratives increasingly emphasize the truth that treating fear honestly can serve as a motive which supports human survival.

Title Every good work of literature encompasses the battle between the light and darkness of humanity and the high cost of prevailing goodness in the world. Many bad things happen in our world, but at the same time, there is always good to celebrate. According to novelist Stephen King, this goodness must always prevail at a high cost.