Metaphors In London

Figurative Language- In The City of Ember, irony occurs throughout the novel. For instance, the avaricious mayor embezzles food from the citizens of Ember. DuPrau writes, “The mayor has a secret treasure in the pipeworks,”(158). Mayor Lemander Cole, a selfish, apathetic man starts to steal concealed food from the citizens of Ember. To save himself from the blackouts, he stores the food Instead, he is stealing from the people and being selfish. The author of The City of Ember is showing how politicians and leaders nowadays can also be greedy and selfish just like the mayor. She’s telling us to be more careful of who to follow and what people to trust.

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Budge Wilson’s, The Metaphor, is a bildungsroman that blueprints Charlotte’s transition from a young, moldable girl into an independent woman through juxtaposition, allegory, and symbolism. Charlotte is an awkward seventh grader, who transforms into a well-round tenth grader before the eyes of the reader due to the influence of her teacher, Miss. Hancock. Her mother, calculated and emotionless, is the foil to Miss. Hancock’s wild, unorganized spirit. Charlotte finds herself drawn to Miss. Hancock, who her mother despises, which causes Charlotte internal strife. She pushes down her feelings, but through a traumatic experience, she discovers Miss. Hancock’s lessons are the ones her heart wants to live by, not her mother’s. Miss. Hancock and

In the opening of the novel The Street, author Ann Petry carefully establishes the bitterness and stressfulness between Lutie Johnson’s, and her relationship with her environments’ urban setting. Petry develops this relationship through the use of imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language. With the use of imagery Petry establishes the stressfulness in which the wind causes between her, and the pedestrians around her. In the beginning of the opening Petry commences her first paragraph with a lengthy sentence which causes a stressfulness in a reader's breathing; similar to the way in which the wind causes in a person’s breathing.

Throughout the book, Ordinary People, Dr. Berger used many unorthodox methods of therapy to help Conrad. Dr. Berger was able to make Conrad feel comfortable being himself. He used methods that would work for his situation. He also shows the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy, were the problems lays under the surface and usually the client. Berger also used many metaphors about how Conrad was feeling and doing to hide his emotions.

In Ann Petry’s novel, The Street, the wind and the city come alive through Petry’s use of personification, imagery, and figurative language. The wind is bullying the people on the streets and Lutie Johnson is one of them. Lutie just moved to the city and is looking for a place to stay but the wind is trying to keep her out.

“We could have ran through every backyard in North America until we got to Panama” (Dillard 48). This is just one of Dillard’s many metaphors throughout the novel that portrays a deep awareness of space and time. Through metaphors Dillard captures a true depth in the novel that regular sentences can not obtain. Normal sentences might pull a reader in, however metaphors can truly captivate the reader to imagine all new possibilities. Dillard shows through metaphors of sight, time, and understanding that as you grow older your awareness of time and space deepens in understanding.

“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?... Most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action” (68). Postman defines this has a sense of decontextualized information. He suggests that while we feel connected to the information of the news of the day because it inspires opinions from us, we’re actually not. As the quote details, we cannot do much about the information we receive because we have no context in which to

The Author is trying to recall and deal with the tragic affects that the Vancouver Island earthquake had in 1946. The story’s narrator is just an everyday seven year old boy who is trying to live his life. The boy looks back on the event of the earthquake, as if he was talking to other people who survived the earthquake. The narrative technique is really pressing and brings the details up close, in the terms of the psychological impact the earthquake had. He also talks about the long term affect that this earthquake had on the area and the people. The long term affects that the earthquake had on people is knowledgeable. The boy has many thoughts on the earthquake. He had thought that the earth was a solid, stable mass but after the earthquake he was unsure about that. After the earthquake his world views had changed a lot, because this was a major event in the boy’s life. What was once the town and home of many including the boy, became nothing in the blind of an eye. It changed the boys outlook on the world forever. The theme of the story is impermanence. Life is as it is now. It isn’t in the future. Or in the goals that we have in life. It is in the moment. The boy is stressing that life is lived and experienced “in the

The movie and the book “The Shack” has become quite a controversial story for many Christians. The main story line is about the tragic abduction of Mack’s daughter while the family is camping. The abduction turns into a murder when they find his daughter’s clothes and blood on the floor of a remote, abandoned shack. The abductor is never found nor has his daughter’s body. The next few years of anger and hopelessness, which is referred to as the Great Sadness causes Mack to lose sight of his relationship with God. One day Mack receives invitation to come to the shack. Mack has no idea if this invitation is a cruel joke, a disturbing invitation from Missy’s abductor, or if was from God, so Mack decides to drive to the shack, secretly, for answers.

Farming and banking have more in common metaphorically than one would think. While making a list of common metaphors used in my workplace, many of the metaphors used on a daily basis involve farm animals, tending animals, and crops. For example, don’t count your chickens before they hatch (make realistic business plans, don’t assume), it all starts with a single seed (business marketing starts with a single idea), tend your cattle (know, support, and monitor your business). Throughout this short piece, I will share the most used metaphor in my workplace, the climate this metaphor creates, and the strength and weakness of the metaphor in relation to banking and lending. First and foremost, my workplace environment is a commercial lending department, within a small community bank.

“Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.” This quote shows how harshly this earthquake affected the residents of San Francisco. In Jack London’s essay “The Story of an Eyewitness,” London uses imagery, metaphors, and personification to make the reader feel as though they are actually there. London uses imagery in his essays to make the reader feel as though they are experiencing the 1906 earthquake themselves.

The first few chapters of White Fang were very detailed because Jack London used great figurative language and had good choice of words to describe he’s setting. The book states “Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light” (London 1) which is a great example of Jack London being really detailed. Also these first few chapters had a lot of figurative language and metaphors. Having figurative language and metaphors in a story are really important because it can keep the reader interested in the book and you can keep the reader thinking. An example of figurative language

Metaphors-clichés are metaphors which refer to the use of cliché expressions. Cliché metaphors have no aesthetic sense and are used only in connotative function, in order to express thoughts more clearly with a larger share of emotions. Example for cliché metaphors is a sentence like “she always stick out a smile”. We already familiar with this sentence, also this metaphor shows mostly about expression. Therefore, in translating this a good translator must see the response of the audience to feel the clichés feeling that used by the author, whatever "strange" the metaphor may seem.

How metaphors are used in theses poems can add interest to keep reading. “London” and “Composed Upon” are both great poems describing London in many metaphors. The poem