Examples Of Figurative Language In The Book Thief

The poem is rich in the images of the senses which aid the reader to imagine this terrible massacre. By employing an auditory image in “Babies wailing from hunger” (8), Kimel evokes sympathy. The Nazis even tortured those innocent babies who needed nothing but tenderness. He also uses an organic image in “Fathers shaken with helpless rage” (10), which depicts the complete sense of loss of control, fear and rage that the Jews suffered from.

There are many ways authors include literary devices to not only express their position on certain things, but also to evoke emotion and thought from readers for them to fully understand the reason for them being presented. The author may drop hints through tone, style, symbolism, and motifs. These four elements help lead the reader to infer reasoning, meaning, and significance behind aspects of every story.

Simile, metaphor, and personification are some of the figurative language elements that are used to impact the reader more deeply in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. First of all, there are several similes that is presented throughout the story which allows the audience to create a mental image using words. One of the many similes includes Liesel whispering "His hair is like feathers" (216). She is comparing Max Vandenburg's hair to feathers. This later influenced Max to write the book The Standover Man, where he drew himself as a bird. Metaphors also played an important role in the book. When Max finally wakes up after three days, "...his eyes were swampy and brown. Thick and heavy" (206). Death is implying that Max has brown eyes like swamps,

The author uses a pair of similes to help people have a picture in their head about the story. In the story he says ¨It was empty as a jungle glade at a hot high noon¨. This simple quote makes the story a whole lot more realistic. You can practically feel the hot sun pouring down on your back. It helps people form an illustration in their head about what is happening in the story. Another simile used is ¨The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies.¨ This quote

In Chapter 3 page 39 he uses simile when saying “While his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug” when describing someone’s car and a small bug. By comparing these two objects the reader can conclude that the car moved in a way that is comparable to a small yellow bug. The second example of his use of simile is on page 39 of chapter 3 when he says “Girls came and went by like moths among the whisperings. This example of simile was used to describe the frequency of girls coming into and leaving his life by comparing them to moths. Fitzgerald used his form of figurative language to express his view of different events in his life. The use of simile is by far one of the most common forms of figurative language in the history of American

Simile is a figure of speech which shows a similarity between two apparently unlike things by using the words “like” or “as.” One example of simile is, “The god that holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire…” In this sentence you are being compared to a spider, or a loathsome insect. This means that God is holding you out of hell like someone would hold a bug over the trash. A second example of simile is, “your wickedness makes you as if it were as heavy as lead.” Your wickedness is being compared to lead. It is saying that you have so much sin and wickedness in you, that it weighs you down because it’s so heavy. The more wicked you get, the lower God’s hand drops, and the sooner you fall into

“I [Death] am haunted by humans” (Zusak 550). This example of imagery, a literary device, in The Book Thief juxtaposed how Death was haunted by the cruelty of human action, just as how humans were haunted by Death. Literary devices were implemented by authors to create gripping stories that they wanted to share with their readers. Novelist Aldous Huxley once said that “the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about everything”. While casual readers may not realize the intricacies of literary devices in writing, they could definitely remember how the stories went. Through literary devices, stories can metamorphose into something greater and memorable. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E.

Elie Wiesel’s use of diction and syntax are simple and unsophisticated. This should not be thought of in a negative way. He gets his story across in a concise manner that is easy to understand, yet he is able to evoke the horror of that time in his life giving the reader a clear image and vision throughout the story. His writing is not wordy and drawn out, but rather in short sentences. The strength of his language leaves the reader with a keen sense of the pain the Jews felt as the Nazi’s managed to dehumanize them. His diction and syntax leads to numerous examples of figurative language throughout the book. Many similes are shown to show the manner that the Jews were treated during the Holocaust. “They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my direction. They must have envied me.” (Weisel 35) This quote refers to members of Elie’s town when he was 15, and the Hungarian police had rounded up people to leave the ghetto. Elie compares the members of his town to beaten dogs using the term “like.” They most likely wished they could have traded places with Elie. Elie also shows how camps were prisons by saying, “The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear.” (Wiesel 29) Wiesel compares the barbed wire to a wall using the term “like.” Wiesel refers to the emptiness of the Ghettos when being transported as, “ Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun.” (Wiesel 35) He states this because he is comparing the town to an open tomb and a summer sun because everybody who lived in the town had been taken by Nazis. An open tomb is something everyone can look at, while a

The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak shows how the impact on the power of language has on Liesel Meimeger through the structure of the novel. The structure of the novel shows the development of the character Liesel, highlighting the impact of the power of language. In her development, she finds the ability to express herself as well as to connect to others. Books become a comfort to her and heal her, they help her grow strong relationships with other characters in her life. However, she also sees the damage words have caused through Nazi propaganda, understanding that Hitler 's words have been the cause of suffering of the people in her life. Despite this, the structure of the novel shows the ability of the character to understand that

Similes allows the readers to make connections and it creates a criticizing tone to technology and American society. The book states, "He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness. He was not happy" (12). The author has a negative tone due to the words such as "melt," "collapsing," "blown out," "darkness" and "not happy." Montag says that he is happy, but soon as he enters the house, he realizes that he is not happy and his smile is gone. Probably there are people like Montag in the society, where they think they are happy but actually they are miserable. This simile is comparing how Montag's smile left

As he nears the end of his time in the concentration camp, the violence create environment that makes genocide possible. In the end of the story, Jews are being shipped out of the blocks and murdered. “Every day, several thousand prisoners went through the camp gate and never came back” (118). Elie describes the mass murders in the end of the novel, It illustrates how acts of prejudice to violence can lead to genocide. Jews were first not recognized as human, then murdered, to as last extermination. Acts of Prejudice helped the Nazi’s build up their ruthlessness leading to killing all Jews without hesitation. Elie’s description of the Holocaust is effective in revealing how things can escalate quickly in the Pyramid of Hate to the worst.

Eliezer’s dad Chlomo did not realize the true meaning of the yellow star and what it represented. There are numerous examples of symbolism in the novel “Night.” The title itself is a form of symbolism as the holocaust itself did not only occur at night. The author uses symbolism to really portray the story in a deeper manor. We will discuss many examples of symbolism, but we will mainly focus on the constant use of the words “corpses” and “fire” and what they represent.

Manhunt is classified as literary nonfiction, however it lacks some characteristics that there would traditionally be in a piece of literary nonfiction. For instance, the story is very factual and a lot of veracity is shown throughout. Swanson adds a lot of credible primary sources like letters, newspapers, and interviews to make the story factual. He cross referenced all of the documents which allowed him to write a very credible story and, he shows all of the primary sources at the end of the book in a nine page bibliography. Also, the literary approach to language is very prominent in Manhunt. Swanson puts in a lot of figurative language including allusions, similes and metaphors. One example is that the title of chapter seven is titled

Many of your favorite authors bring their successful literature to life with the use of literary devices. For example, in The Book Thief, the author, Markus Zusak conveyed a story from death’s perspective of adversities faced during World War II. On the other hand, in “The Monkey’s Paw,” author W.W. Jacobs told his audience about a magical paw that revealed the meaning of fate to the White family. In another work, “The Plot Against People,” Russell Baker took a humorous spin on his frustration of inanimate objects. Although these three authors tell three completely different narratives, they all used literary devices to enhance their stories. Some of the most compelling literary devices used in these works include irony, mood, and personification. By using these literary devices, the authors effectively convey their purposes.

Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Personification is the figurative language that is giving the attribute of human beings to animal, an object or a concept. It is sub type of metaphor, an implied comparison in which the figurative term of the comparison is always human being. (Perrine, 1977: 64).