Both the text, “I never had it made” and the PBS review, Jackie Robinson: an inside look, have some similarities and differences. Both the excerpt and video mention how important the world series was to him, but even though that is one similarity, the excerpt talks about of people of such importance to him for example, Rachel, his wife, and Branch Rickey. PBS’ video talks more about Robinson’s private life or his life before baseball. Before he broke the color barrier, Jackie Robinson fought in the military for America. Even though the only war Jackie fought was against racism, Robinson did fight at Camp Hood in Texas.…
The word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement the author {Kimberly Brubaker Bradley} uses, makes the text journalistic or informal like. When the characters talk, they don't speak formally or with really bad grammar. They talk like normal people would do. Kimberly writes with little figurative language. When she does though, it is relatable to the text, and easy for younger readers to understand.…
I can tell you the author's style in the book, In November. The author's style is more childish. She uses a lot of figurative language such as personification, metaphors, and similies. An example from the text is that she wrote that the earth was making its bed. The author also states that to birds, berries were treasure. These are figurative language because the earth making its bed is a personification, this is true because the earth is not human so it is not Possible for it to make its bed. Also berries are compared to treasure which makes that a…
Alex wonders what a different life would be like; he never imagined that his life could actually change. Slathbog’s Gold by M.L. Forman is a good book because it is interesting and has a captivating plot. The theme of Slathbog’s Gold is that everything can change when you least expect it. Alex is a good person, but his character traits might betray him. M.L. Forman uses many literary devices to make this story better. He builds on his caricatures all through the book. In the book Slathbog’s Gold there are many parts that we can learn something from.…
The short story that I had analyzed was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling. I decided that characters, figurative language, and plot all gave a significant amount of support to the development of this story. Without these components of the story, I feel as if the story as a whole would not be at the level that it is at now.…
James Maloney’s novel A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove is beautifully crafted and achingly honest exploration of the transformative power of love. Maloney uses language techniques, such as imagery, characterisation, symbolism, themes and figurative language. This entices the reader into, positions them to feel and think ways about the characters and is given to inform the reader about the character. In ABTWC Maloney has used unconditional love to express the characters inner thoughts. He uses this to meticulously craft abstruse themes and characterisations. The Ways he has shown how transformative love is through points mentioned before and through the different forms of love (conditional and unconditional). I will present ways…
I can tell you the author's style in the book,In November. The author likes to use figurative language. She also likes to use descriptive words. Based on what I read she used personification. For example "tree's are standing". Personification is a figurative language it give's non-living objects human characteristics. she also used descriptive words. For example "the earth is white and silent." Descriptive words are words to give stuff a picture it allows the reader to picture that in their…
In Into Thin Air by Jon Krakaeur, the author’s word choice of descriptive passages and vivid words help well understand his perspective. You see this whole story is written in perspective Jon Krakauer is a journalist by trade, and his motive for going on the Everest expedition is to write an article about the experience of climbing as part of a commercial expedition. The perspective is in the first person, but with a journalistic viewpoint. Krakauer often seems removed from the subject, describing events as objectively as possible, as one would expect in a journalistic article. For example, he is sometimes critical of his fellow climbers, even though elsewhere he describes…
14. Vocab: Afghan= A woolen blanket or shawl. Typically knitted or crocheted into strips or squares. Pg.157…
What constitutes exceptional writing? In 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s work, The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a prize given once a year for outstanding achievements in literature. Set in the scrub forest of Northern Florida in the 1800s, The Yearling tells the story of the daily life of a family making sacrifices to survive and a boy who finds unexpected companionship in an orphaned fawn. What elevates this novel from a simple tale of a struggling family into a beloved classic that has endured the times is Rawlings’s brilliant use of sensory details, syntax, and figurative language.…
To stay in the loop with society and everyday events, most of us flip on the T.V. or radio. Not Immortal Technique, an activist and rapper. In his song “The 4th Branch “he states the media has corporate ties, which sets a fixed agenda and manipulated perspective. This is done with the use of a soft-melodic tune, bringing emotion upon his aggressive tone and message. With his emotional sound, Immortal Technique adds symbols, similes, and metaphors to create a connection with the listener.…
There is always a moment where one’s world turns gray and everything seems dull and hopeless. In “Wednesday Wars,” by Gary D. Schmidt, the character, Holling, experiences a dull depressing time period of his life, his seventh grade year. The author then uses descriptive language, repetition, and symbolism to create a dreary, sorrowful mood. He makes Holling’s world look like there is no hope and there was no room for improvement.…
The Holocaust made an impact on everybody’s lives but Eli Wiesel has a one of a kind story. In the novel Night written by Eli Wiesel he shares to everybody about the hardships in concentration camps as a young boy. He describes some of the horrible events using figurative language to clearly show his experiences in the Holocaust. Eli uses ‘night’ to convey the horrors he witnessed around him when the prisoners are on the freezing cattle cars and also his first day in the camp.…
There are five literary devices in this song that include: metaphors, hyperbole, imagery, and refrains. The metaphor is, “As he came into the window/It was the sound of…
The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, is very emotional and horrendous during the description of a disheartening tragedy known to mankind. He shares his horrifying experiences during the Holocaust through a captivating 120 page book, illustrating how he survived. In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel develops the plot by using very vivid figurative language to describe very sentimental experiences.…