The Faceless Teacher
Figurative language: Simile Figurative devices are used to help create an effect on the reader’s emotions and as well create very vivid images which help add meaning to the arguments presented. They also help readers understand better the ideas that are presented. Examples of the devices used:
Simile: vanish like ghosts
Personification: websites can shift and vanish
Detailed descriptions: provides very vivid descriptions and examples. Uses facts and comparison in an effort to persuade readers and as well, provides arguments that the readers are able to relate to. There is also a sense of consistency in persuasion in luring readers to accept the presented arguments.
Example of comparison: the computer can calculate and display but a teacher can calculate and devise.
Fact: the human teacher while not infallible, can explain different solutions to a single problem, demonstrate objectivity and understanding and illustrate alternate approaches to obstacles
Simple clear vocabulary and simple sentence structure: example: the internet is here to stay. Line 1 para 1
A student enters a classroom to learn, and another human being must provide the nuance, animation and conscious feedback. Lines 5-6 para 2
Formal language: no use of slang or colloquialism
Appeal to reader’s sense of reason and judgement: logos
Alina
Very descritive: imagery is portrayed through the use of description and other mechanics as well as figurative devices.
told from a first person point of view:
effective use of sensory images: sight, touch, hear:
Sight: “her hair was black and always neatly combed back.” Line 11 para 1
Smell:
Hear “the loud voices that hurled threats and insults relentlessly, the single bang, sound of collapse or scream…” lines 2-3 para 8
Touch: slap to the face.
figurative devices: personification, simile, metaphors and onomatopoeia contribute to the effectiveness of the imagery.
Simile: like a mouse
Personification: slap to the face from one of these early morning winter breezes
Metaphor: it was a bitter day
Onomatopoeia: blast, bang
dialogue: helps craft vivid descriptions of action and helps express the actual feelings and emotions that the characters want to exhibit.
“You ungrateful!” another, older, one replied. After all what I do for you…”
“do for me? You? You….you had me cleaning shit with my bare hands!”
artistic Language: slang is used as a means of enhancing the literature. Readers who read for aesthetic pleasure are able to easily identify with the literature and imagine it in their current settings. It also makes the piece more interesting.
Slang: “ dem fellas wil never go back home.” Line 14 para 5
Lou’s Place
Sensory details; appeals to the sense and helps strengthen the supporting details. Additionally it helps improve the writer’s imagery.
Sight: paint on the wall has cracks line 4 para 3
Chunks are missing from the carpet at the favourite tables of the workers. Lines 2-3 para 3
Smell: a perennial smell of hamburgers: lines 4-5 para 3
Haze of aromas: line 1 para 8
Taste: hamburgers
Roast: line 3 para 8
Spices of an apple pie line 4 para 8
Hear: the phone rings constantly: line 5 para 6
Old juke box reigning in the corner: line 3 para 7
very vivid descriptive details
figurative language: personification, metaphor, simile
Personification: time stood still
Metaphor: time stood still
Simile: taste as good as it smells
flashback: “It was at least twenty years later…” line 1 para 1
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