As the princess gestured to the right to show the man which door to choose, she was thinking about the lady that was in the door and about the tiger that was in the other. The princess didn’t like the lady in the door. she didn’t really want the man to go spend the rest of his life with her. So she did what she had to do. The door she told the man to choose was the one with the tiger.…
Sue Monk Kidd uses similes and idioms in The Secret Life of Bees to reveal the emotions of her characters to give the readers a better understanding of them. Kidd uses a simile to describe the emotions Rosaleen is feeling. Rosaleen uses those words because she is finally free and able to say and do whatever she wants. She is happy to have free will now that they have left Sylvan and are on their way to Tiburon, South Carolina.…
Many people believe that literature only comes from the thoughts and styles of writers. They also think that words don't mean anything to anyone, and that literature is just words. However it is more than just that, literature is a reflection of events in life and experiences of society. Authors like Harper Lee allow writers to share the good and bad values of human life, and it allows the reader to learn a lesson about life through the experiences of society like the author Sandra Cisneros.…
Having Cried Wolf does a lot of work in only a short amount of space. Gretchen Shirm does so by taking on multiple characters’ stories, including different perspectives and interwoven storylines, all the while being chock full of vivid imagery and carefully crafted with literary techniques such as similes and metaphors. She also gives such specific, detailed, and relatable examples, appealing to multiple senses that make the reader feel almost as if they are actually there. For me, all of these techniques make the book more relatable, which in turn makes it come to life in a way. Similes are sprinkled throughout the book; some more poetic while others are simple and mundane comparisons, some that set the scene while others do a nice job of…
The author uses many different forms of figurative language.…
The situations in “Eighteen” were hidden by metaphors and similes, which lead to more effectiveness in delivering her message. It had us in class lead to more than one interpretation,…
My Response on Eleven In the literary text “Eleven” by Sandra Cisseros, the author expresses all of the different feelings about being eleven years older that the character Rachel is experiencing as she describes her eleventh birthday. Through the text Cisseros appeals to the emotion of the audience, creates imagery, and applies details from home life to characterize Rachel. Today is Rachel’s eleventh birthday, yet she doesn’t quite feel eleven.…
"One moment they were leaping over a fallen log, and the next moment she heard Kwasi moan softly, then his hand slipped slowly from hers. He slumped to the ground, a look of soft surprise on his small face. A spear had sliced through him whole little body. Amari sank down beside him and held him to her. He died in her arms" (Draper, 14).…
When reading pages one hundred four through one hundred fifteen there were many personal emotions. This was especially present when Eliezer's father died. It was very sad because Eliezer's father had been through so much already being in the concentration camp itself, but died crying out for Eliezer. He was also so close to being free from the camp. A lot of emotions were also present when Eliezer finally made it out of the concentration camp.…
For Maddie Propst her day started early Sunday morning as she woke up at six in order to be ready to travel to her next golf match. “When the team travels to a match we leave around seven or eight in the morning. That way we get there in enough time to play a practice round or too on the green and get use to the course.” Propst said, “We (the team) then wake up the next morning and make sure to have breakfast as a team before going to the match.”…
What is “Eleven” saying about the world of children vs the world of adults? The world of children is often thought of as trivial, insignificant, etc. compared to the issues and concerns that involve adults. In the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is about Rachel’s eleventh birthday and reveals that children are hesitant to stand up to adult authority figures.…
It was 8 o’clock in the morning at Yankton Trails on field 14 and I got there thinking we were gonna win, again! My teammates chatted about the team we were about to play, and it turns out, that that they won their first game 8-1 and their second game 8-2. So then I was like, “Great, a team that’s good and we never play good in the mornings, this is gonna end well!”…
“Eleven” is a short story by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Rachel. On her eleventh birthday, Her teacher, Mrs. Price, holds up a horrible red sweater and demands to know who owns it. Sylvia Saldivar said the sweater is Rachel’s, and Mrs. Price just drops it on Rachel’s desk. Rachel wants to throw the sweater away. Rachel thinks today is terrible birthday.…
Metaphor is shown “Her hearing is still twig-snap sharp” (Russell 241) this is relating to Jeanette and how she gave into the human culture and tries to keep up with what the nuns do; Laugh, drink, and apologize. Simile is used “I’d bristle and growl, the way that I’d begun to snarl at my own reflection as if it were a stranger” (Russell 241) this is a perfect representation of how we are as humans; we begin to not recognize ourselves because we try so hard to be something we are…
Introduction The short story ‘Only Ten’ by Allan Baillie is a heart touching novel which relates to a 10 year old kids called Hussein ‘The Shah’. In the story, the protagonist Hussein is a refugee who has come to Australia from a war zone country. He is an intruder at his new school, where he is seen differently by other kids in both appearance and behaviour. As the time passes Hussein makes the first move towards acceptance when he offers comfort and sympathy to a fellow students whose sister has died.…