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The piece opens with words that immediately take hold of the reader. The word choice of “thick” and “azure swallowed by tar” was used to describe how the night was. The word “thick” tells the reader how the air of the night is, and that everything about this night is heavy. “Azure swallowed by tar” conjures up sensory images as well as feelings. Azure is an expensive, and rich blue stone. Using the word azure tells the reader that the day is filled with rich blue light. Azure appeals to the visual senses. This azure is then “swallowed by tar”, this conjures up the idea of sense of touch. Tar is sticky and pulls down whatever things that happen to fall into its grasps when it is found in large quantities such as a tar pit. Tar is a black substance that covers and sticks. Tar is something that is impossible to wash away easily because of its nature. When the audience is told that the azure is swallowed by tar the deepest of blues is presented to their mind to see. If any blue shines through the black tar at all it will be dimly so. The tar then takes away any of that lustrous blue that may have existed in the day and eliminates it. This opening sentence describing how the night is appeals to the sense of sight and touch, even though it is in reality an abstract event of absence of light. Analysis of how my rendition of a scene taken from Wuthering Heights models the literary style of Description
The paper than describes the play of wind among the trees. This description further sets the seen. A useful purpose of description is to aid in setting mood. This is done with the description of the night, absence of light, and the element of wind moving the treetops aids in setting the scene and mood of the event about to take place. The reader is shown the night in all its aspects and not just told that the night existed in that moment.
Described next is the clothing worn by both characters that will be focused on during the event written about. Cathy is dressed in “Sky-embracing blue” This tells the reader that she is warring a blue, not as rich and prestigious of the azure discussed earlier. Instead the blue is warm, embracing. This appeals to not only the sense of sight but to touch as well. The “sky-embracing blue” encourages readers to think of Cathy as someone who is not only capable of reaching out and being able to touch the sky, but also invites the reader to believe that she too is someone very tangible, and warm, as well as happy. The reader feels what Cathy represents as a character in the story, and not just told that she was there, wearing a blue dress. What Cathy represents in this moment is clearly shown though her description. The description of Heithcliff also appeals to the senses and shows what he represents in that moment.
The Linton Grange is described, as having a “golden grandeur” where inside everything and everyone seemed “Painted in golden light”. This describes how light inside and how people inside appeared to Cathy and Heithcliff. The audience is shown the world of the Linton Grange and not simply told that it was a wealthy place. By using the descriptive word of “golden” repeatedly the richness establishes itself in the mind’s eye of the reader.
Later on the description of a guard-dog as being “fate on four legs, baring hungry teeth” appeals to the curiosity of the reader’s imagination. The word “Fate” lets the reader know right away that this is an element that will be important and change the situation from how it is currently to something unknown. The reader is shown through this wording that something important is about to take place. Using description this way is much more tactful than simply saying “and what happened next would change things forever”. More is said by using less words, “le seul mot juste” of description. The description of the animal having, and baring “hungry teeth” demonstrates to the reader that this animal will bite. It also shows that the bite will be brutal and deep because the teeth are “hungry”.
Symbolisms through single correct word choices are carried through this paper and demonstrate description effectively.
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