Diction: special, loving, revolted, frightened, unyielding, tapered, dimpled, collided, aggressive, irritated, dismember, dying, rusty, cold
Imagery: round moronic eyes, pancake face, orangeworms hair, hard unyielding limbs, bone-cold head, rusty hinges in July, cold and stupid eyeball, bleat of a dying lamb
The diction in this story suggests a tone of disdain for the doll. The child believes it is ugly and wishes to tear it apart. Words such as “aggressive,” “irritated,” and “revolted” suggest that the child thinks it is unbearably hideous. The doll is supposed to be something beautiful, but she fails to see any more than gruesomeness in it and proceeds to “dismember” it.
The imagery in this story suggests a tone of disdain for the doll. It is described as having “round moronic eyes,” “pancake face,” “orangeworms hair,” “bone-cold head,” and a “cold and stupid eyeball.” These visual images show that the girl does not think the doll is pretty at all, which is what it is supposed to be. The sound it makes sounds to her like a “bleat of a dying lamb,” showing how even the sound this doll emits is hideous.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Diction: rich, stirred, heavy, delicate, pink-flowering, honey-sweet, honey-coloured, beauty, flame-like, fantastic, pallid, sullen, gilt, straggling
Imagery: rich odour of roses, heavy scent of the lilac, delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn, honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms, burden of a beauty, long tussore- silk curtains, pallid jade-faced painters, long unmown grass, dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, bourdon note of a distant organ
The diction in this story suggests a tone of happiness. This is done through the use of floral words such as “honey-sweet” and “pink-flowering.”
The imagery in the story suggests a tone of happiness. This is done through pleasant images like “rich odor of roses,” heavy scent of lilac,” and “delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”