How Does Liam O Flaherty Use Figurative Language In The Sniper

Her choice of words paints vivid pictures and instills strong feelings appropriate to the situation written at hand. The diction reveals what the characters look like as well as their personality, or clues to their personality. It moves the story forward by showing how the events transition with her choice of words and in the way she reveals characters or happenings. Brooke Hauser's choice of figurative language conveys how dire a situation may be, how joyful it may be, and how the features of the characters appear to be in comparison to objects. Her use of figurative language makes it easier to picture the characters as well as obtain an idea of how the characters may feel at the time. The figurative language reveals, in detail, the appearance of the characters as well as their personality. An example would be on page forty-seven, which says, "...the farmer's face, its broad planes darkened in shadows like a field under a passing cloud." Brooke's use of figurative language moves the story forward by revealing new characters, the feelings of characters, and/or new locations. The author's use of sensory detail contributes greatly to the struggles and emotions of the students. In the way she uses it, she shows how horrific an event may be, how disheartening something may be, and/or how cheerful and jovial something may be. She uses sensory details to reveal the, typically physical, features of characters.

In “A River Runs Through It,” similes are used constantly. They usually relate a person or object to an animal or living entity. For one example, Maclean uses a simile to compare life’s

Why do the words that authors use in their writing help set the overall atmosphere of the story? In the story, "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything," a young boy named Willie and his cautious mother, who were abandoned by their father, come across a beggar, and Willie grows curious of his character, thus leading him to question him. After a series of encounters, Willie learns that the homeless man was not what he seemed, but a man of wisdom. In the story, “Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a party of humans arrive in Mars and try to build their new lives there after an apocalypse on the Earth. One of the humans, Harry Bittering, is skeptical about Mars and how living there may not be the best idea. In both “Dark They Were,

Personification is a great way to make the story very lively and exciting. One example of personification, the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore (Connell 19), is a great representation of this device because it adds a mysterious and human-like quality to the sound. That’s what the author was trying to accomplish; a mysterious feeling. Connell effectively used personification because when reading that, it made the sea breaking on the shore seem alive

Depth of a story relies greatly on the author’s unique way of conveying a tone. There are many great examples of diction in any genre of literature, whether is be of someone’s feelings, a setting, a mood, a person, or an object. Without it, a story would be dull. Diction connects our senses to the actions, the setting, and the mood of a story, thus enveloping the reader into it, which is exemplified beautifully in “The Scarlet Ibis,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” and “The Necklace.”

The Sniper, written by Liam O’Flaherty, is a story about a Republican sniper in the Irish civil war in 1922. This story tells of a night spent on a roof looking for the enemy, the Free-Staters. In this short description of the nights events, the sniper kills 3 people; a soldier, an informer, and finally an enemy sniper on the roof across the road from him. In the end this enemy sniper turns out to be the republicans brother. This story shows the the specific characteristics a sniper must have to carry out their duty. A key moment in this text which influenced the sniper is the Civil war itself.

Ellen Hunnicutt once said “. . . figurative language adds pizzazz. It raise work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” This quote explains how using figurative language helps create a more interesting and useful way of expressing a tone of a character or event.Figurative language is a uses of words, phrases, and sentences to help to make the characters and story line come more to live in the reader’s mind. Some examples of Figurative languages are similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and many more. Figurative language help the reader see tone and mood in each of the example of figurative language because the reader can see or image the event or character in their mind. In a story, poem, or any form of writing, figurative language is extremely important to a reader because if a sentence didn’t have figurative language the reader may not find the story or poem interesting or even find it confusing and difficult to understand.In addition the use of figurative language is crucial when an author is writing. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pigman, By Paul Zindel, the authors used Figurative language to develop the tone of their stories so that that the reader can visualize it in their mind.

In the novel, The Pigman, the author, Paul Zindel, uses figurative language to develop character. An example in the story is, “He was so happy to see us I thought his eyes were going to twinkle

Through literature, Liam O’Flaherty, the author of the short story The Sniper, clearly illustrates how horrific and destructive war really is. He illustrates the appalling agony of the Irish civil war through a dramatic story of two brothers against each other in the war. Through the the author's writing, readers can conclude that the theme of The Sniper is that war destroys families. O’Flaherty sets emphasis on this theme by using many strong literary devices. The literary devices used that apply the most emphasis on the theme are situational irony, setting, and the author's use of direct characterization .

Figurative language is a main component in showcasing the emotions the characters reveal. An example being when the author writes “ The children huddled up to her and breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight.” This portrays the children's emotions with more emphasis and really shows how they watched everything Granny Weatherall did with precision. This type of writing really helps the reader understand what is going on within the characters and their actions. The author also displays figurative language in the way she describes how John would be in the situation of them still being together. She describes him as being more of a child, rather than taking a parent role.

The use of figurative language in writing brings a story to life in the mind of the reader giving them a better grasp of the events taking place. Using hyperbole, simile and personification serves to develop the characters of a story as well as enhancing its theme (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012).

“The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey… Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms.” Liam O’Flaherty starts the story off with a strong sense of detail, and it immediately emerges the reader into the story and makes them envision being in Dublin at the time of the war. Halfway throughout the story, the sniper gets shot. The author uses sensory details to create an image that makes the reader envision the actual pain the character is battling against. “Then taking out his field dressing, he ripped open the packet with his knife. He broke the neck of the iodine bottle and let the bitter fluid drip into the wound. A paroxysm of pain swept through him. He placed the cotton wadding over the wound and wrapped the dressing over it. He tied the ends with his teeth.” When the author emerges the reader into the story, it makes them able to relate to the agony the sniper is in, which contributes back to the mood.

Along with sensory details, Rawlings’ practical use of figurative language largely helped her to win a Pulitzer Prize for her astonishing work on this novel. The figurative language used, aids in bringing life to the story through devices such as comparisons and exaggerations. For instance, on page six, the novel reads, “The bubbling spring would rise forever from the earth, the thin current was endless”. The spring cannot rise forever and the thin current can end. Here, the author uses hyperboles to exaggerate the details, and to show the importance of the ideas.Another instance, is on page two hundred and twenty four when the sound of the air is brought  up, “A great roaring sounded in the distance. All the bears in the scrub, meeting at the river, might make such a roaring”. This description uses a simile, comparing the wind roaring to the sound of a group of bears. This allows a better awareness of the degree of the noise. Rawling could have said the wind roared but by adding the detail, she creates more depth in her portrayal of Jody’s experiences. On page two hundred and twenty four there is another example of figurative language, where personification being used, “In the night, a gust of wind moved through and slammed both doors”. This is very helpful in Rawlings creating a great piece of work because it breathes life into the wind and in that moment gives the

For example, “Dark hovered where a wall should be like a cave had eaten away the solid earth beneath it.” The figurative language used in this sentence is a Simile because of the use of comparing two unlike things using the word like. In this sentence, the author is comparing the dark hovered wall and a cave eating the earth where the wall should be. This contributes to the tension in the story because the use of “dark hovered” and “eaten away the solid earth” gives creepy or scary tension to the story. That is another reason why Similes contribute to the tension in the

Simile is a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar. Simile and metaphor genuinely have an identical definition. Both of them compare two things that absolutely different. Simile is the explicit comparison of two things,