Examples of Figures of Speech in literature

Themes, Symbols and Motifs in Fahrenheit 451

Theme:

Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

Censorship:

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We can say that Censorship is a clear theme used in Fahrenheit 451 because there's a restriction of freedom of speech during the novel, the burning of books represents the burning of knowledge and the oppression that the leaders give to the community and to the society.

1. Audience / Purpose. The author is trying to direct this image, to the people in general by showing a very restrictive way of thinking, acting, or talking. This particular text does not focus on a specific audience, but to the public in general.

2. Content / Theme. In this text there's a restriction and a prohibition of a different way of seeing things, a way of thinking, speaking, etc. The main ideas in this text will be prohibition, freedom, different, control, society, etc.

3. Tone/ Mood. This image make me, as a reader, feel as if I was the person represented in the picture, it makes me think about the world that we live in now, the way the media or even the leaders control society so they could see, hear, think and talk only what they think is right. As if humans were robots designed to act in a particular way.

4. Stylistic Devices. In the picture you can see how censorship is represented through the senses (Hearing, Taste, Sight, etc) in a very controlled way.

5. Structure. In this text we can see a frame made of iron, it has a contrast of colors between black and white and it shows a bunch of hands with new's paper sleeves covering a guy's eyes and mouth.

Symbols:

Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

Mirrors

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Mirrors are a symbol in this book because it is useful to represent a type of self portrait, or self-understanding, of seeing oneself clearly.

1. Audience / Purpose. The author of this text is directing it to probably the people who is struggling for something or that is having problems whit her identity. It's not directed to a specific genre, age or public.

2. Content / Theme. In this text a there's girl that's showing that she's probably have problems with finding out which her or his identity is, who he or she want to be, because sometimes you need a "mirror"to see who you really are, and it's sad that you need it to understand. The main ideas of the text will be sadness, pieces, mirror, identity, self portrait, identification, etc.

3. Tone/ Mood. The target audience will feel identified with the text because of how they are feeling in the moment. The text could also make the audience feel insecure because the image reflects that, like in a way loneliness, and scared thoughts. Sometimes the audience may want to know or to understand what is the girl going through, and what is really happening in the picture.

4. Stylistic Devices. The author uses the tool of expressions in the face of the girl, the color of the text, or an allusion to that dark atmosphere and a broken mirror that is a basic one to understand what does he/she wanted to express.

5. Structure. This text contains dark colors, with a broken mirror that will be the center of attention of this text because it's in what the picture focuses the most beside the girl with a kind of worried expression.

Motifs:

Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

Animal and Nature Imagery

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This text is a clear motif because is a structure in which we can see a contrast to the mayor theme of the book, it helps the people to get how the author of the book wants to express his/her ideas.

1. Audience / Purpose. Although the audience that's target for this text is not a specific one and it can be directed to the whole public, it could make more sense and be simnifically special to the people that likes nature and that wants to protect it's beauty, or the peaceful people, who would be identified immediately with it.

2. Content / Theme. This text is showing a kind of peace, a non-harmful habitat full of joy and a perfect environment, in which we can see the clear contrast to what the book's about. The most visible aspect shown in the text is freedom, the flying humming bird will be the perfect representation of it. The main ideas will be: peace, environment, contrast, liberty, freedom, etc.

3. Tone/ Mood. The audience will feel tranquility and peace by watching this text because it's what the colors, and things in the picture inspire.

4. Stylistic Devices. The author uses the colors and the movement of the picture to caught the audience's attention.

5. Structure. We can see a moving text, with some flowers in front being pollinated by the humming bird. The use of colors is strong and it has some greenish, kind of nature in the background, using moving rain as well.

Figures:

1. “They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house” page 67 The Sieve and the Sand.

- Personification is used in this sentence because it gives human qualities to the house, like being quiet, which non-living things can’t do.

- As readers we feel peaceful because the silence from the house transmits calm and makes the reader feel relaxed. The moment described in this sentence is a rainy night, which can be traduced to a peaceful night.

2. “Why should I read? What for? What for! Why!” page 69 The Sieve and the Sand.

- Anaphora is used in the sentence above because it uses a repetition of words (What and why) in the beginning of each sentence.

- As readers, we feel rage, because the character in this sentence is expressing anger and stress.

3. “The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentifrice, Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice…” page 75 The Sieve and the Sand.

- Alliteration is used in this sentence because in it the beginning sounds are repeated.

- As readers, this makes us feel confused and a little desperate. Because the repetition of sounds makes it hard to read and understand.

4. “… and Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius” page 93 The Sieve and the Sand.

- A Simile is shown in the sentence by comparing two unlike things, such as Mildred running from the parlor and a native running from an eruption.

- This makes the reader feel thoughtful, because, in our case, we wouldn’t have thought of comparing those two situations, which are in some ways very different.

5. “You’ll be fine. This is a special case. Come on, jump for it!” page 109 The Sieve and the Sand.

- In this phrase an Understatement is used, because Beatty is making Montag’s appearance less important by pushing him to keep playing cards.

- This phrase makes us feel worried about Montag’s health, because him appearance could be showing he’s very sick, yet he’s not paying any attention to it.

6. “Montag stood fixing his raw eyes to the cold bright rail under his clenched fingers.” Page 106 The Sieve and the Sand.

- This phrase has a Metaphor because it’s stating how eyes can be raw when that’s no how it is, he instead is referring to his anger shown in how he stares.

- We feel scared because as you read raw eyes, you imagine things that are not right.