The poet begins the poem by casting an ominous image in the mind of the reader. The poet describes the relative calm before the storm 'Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping.' The adjective ominous gives the reader a real sense of what the lapping of the waves is like; expectant and dangerous. 'Lapping' itself is almost ironic as one would associate the word lapping with calm and peaceful waves, but the poet flips this and turns lapping into an ominous sign that a storm is coming. Throughout the poem, Roethke uses alliteration and onomatopoeias to provide the reader with a more realistic image of what the storm is like; 'While the wind whines overhead.'
The conversation between Amir and Hassan has Amir’s describing that moment to indicate the nature of his relationship with Hassan. We see Hassan serving him, like a Hazara does for a Pashtun, and telling Amir about his dream, which shows their friendship. Hosseini seems to have put that at the beginning to inform us once more of their relationship before it fluctuates later on. Some pleasant imagery is used of the weather and kite competition. The “blameless blue” sky has ironic implications of the blame we will soon put on Amir for betraying Hassan.
Tom Leonard lays out his poem as news reporter would read on an auto cue. ‘Half Caste’ by John Agard is about exposing/exploring what the term half caste means and examples of it. “England weather nearly always half caste” this quote shows that half caste is a term that can be used not just in races but in other situations, like the weather. The weather in England is, according to John Agard is “when light an shadow mix in de sky” he is saying that half the time it is cloudy and the other half it is sunny and most of the time it is mixed together, this why he uses these quotes to express the term half cast. He also uses other quotes such as; “mix a black key wid a white key” and mix red an green”, these quotes too represent that half caste can be used in different situations.
The regular rhythm and rhyme connote the ordinariness of Miss Gee, and the restricted nature of her character. The story of Miss Gee changes perspective in the seventh quatrain- whereas we before have been reading a real-life story, we now enter an imaginary world, when Miss Gee “dreamed a dream one evening”. WH Auden uses pathetic fallacy to tell this part of the story- “a storm blew down the palace”- which not only conveys Miss Gee’s own depressed thoughts, but foreshadows the collapse of her life when she is diagnosed with cancer. In Miss Gee’s dream, a bull is present, and Auden writes “it was going to overtake”. Auden uses this imagery to physically present the cancer taking over Miss Gee’s body, personifying the cancer as the bull.
i) How does Ishiguro present mood and atmosphere in the extract? The extract opens with the line “it was windy and sunny… a few storm clouds starting to gather.” This juxtaposition of “sunny” and “storm clouds” is used by Ishiguro to create a paradox, making the weather seem confusing to the reader; in turn making the rest of the scene confusing. Ishiguro uses the weather paradox to create mood and atmosphere through pathetic fallacy. The contradicting “sunny” and “storm clouds starting to gather” illustrate the clones’ initial happy mood in the extract, but tension and “restlessness” begins to show when Madame’s car pulls into Hailsham. “…the whisper went around… we’d suddenly got so restless” shows that the atmosphere of the scene is one of secrecy – hence the “whispers” – and excitement – “restlessness”.
Between pages 74 and 75 in The Woman in Black, Susan Hill describes the setting of the story to set the mood and to give a vivid picture of the scene by using several literary tools. In this passage of the book, Susan Hill illustrates the strange predicament that Arthur Kipps suddenly finds himself in. Susan Hill automatically starts the paragraph by hooking the reader in by giving a sense of uncertainty and something out of the ordinary: “the mist played tricks with sound as well as sight”. This is an unusual situation for Arthur Kipps, therefor the reader wants to know how this affair is going to end, and mentally notes that this is an important part. Uncertainty is also recalled several times during this whole passage: “I could neither understand or account for it”, “it was hard to decipher”, “I stood absolutely helpless”.
In the story the “Thunderstorm”, Vladimir Nabokov’s complex imaginative piece, the author employs imagery and personification to take the reader into a fantastic and dreamy world. From the very beginning when Nabokov is depicting a seemingly realistic setting, he introduces personification in his narrative to set the mood of the piece. The wind, described as a “blind phantom” is later found “... waiting for me in the room; it banged the casement window and staged a prompt reflux when I shut the door behind me”. Giving human attributes to the wind turns it into an active character in the story. In addition, layering mystical qualities in the image of the wind contributes to the fantastical feel of the story.
Browning uses personification of the weather to show how the voice’s emotions influence his views. In line 2 Browning uses the word ‘sullen’ to describe the wind, further stating in line 3 that it was strong enough the tear down trees ‘in spite’. Not only do these very visual depictions of weather set the tone of the poem (by pathetic fallacy) but they also echo the voice’s emotions because in line 5 ‘I listened with my heart fit the break’ suggests a connection between the weather he is hearing and the deep sorrow ‘heart fit to break’ he is experiencing. This is further made clear by the use of the ABABB rhyme scheme, making a clear link between nature and his emotions with the rhyming of ‘lake’ with ‘break’. However, Browning makes it clear that the voice’s perception of reality and realty may not be the same thing by the juxtaposition of the voices opinion of Porphyria and Porphyria’s actions.
The liberating theme, and ironically its own deconstructive sense, is already suggested in the very first paragraph of the story. “The leaves were so still that even Bibi thought it was going to rain (648),” foreshadows the submissively ‘still’ status of women in society that is about to shaken by the coming of the sensuous storm in the story. The concept of equality in gender role that is about to burst out by the upcoming storm is also suggested in the following sentence mentioning Bobinot’s converse of ‘prefect equality’. As for “certain somber clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west accompanied by a sullen, threatening roar,” expresses Chopin’s idea of the power of women’s liberation that would threaten the male’s role in society like the storm would affect Bobinot and Bibi. However, the very fact mention in the following sentence that theses two male characters were away from home and decided to “remain there till the storm has passed,” deconstruct the feminist liberation that in order for woman to liberate herself, like Calixta presumably liberate herself through her
For example, "' Now squat,' said Angelina,' like you're going to take an enormous caca. (55)'" This is humerous because the midwife is telling Socorro to squat as f she is going to use the restroom. It relieves the mood because Socorro is in labor and she is in pain. Besides dialouge being used, simile is also implied in this context, the author is comparing a normal squat to a squat used when you go to the restroom. When the suthor uses dialouge it gives the story more of a thrill because you as the reader feel as if your experiencing that moment.