Overview of key image terms: simile, metaphor, personification, dominant impression, and connotation assignment

He wants to sit on the “ orange line” that is being worthy of the Lord’s approval. The orange line itself is not the Lord, but it changes to Him from representing the spot on which kindergarteners would strive to be worthy to sit. After he lost his opportunity in kindergarten to sit on it, he was determined to reach the line. He worked hard and continued to pursue the “ orange line” throughout his life to feel worthy of the Lord’s approval. This metaphor shows that Alex Hess is a very strong-willed person who will never give up on what he believes in. 3.

Personification- gives personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. Example #1: The wind whispered. Commentary: Wind cannot actually whisper; it isn’t human. This personification makes the wind sound quiet and mysterious. If it was just, “ the wind blew,” there would be no way to tell exactly what the wind was doing. It could have been “ whispering”, barely a small breeze, or even blasting through the air turning into a storm. Personification helps to identify how the wind is blowing to give the reader a better idea of what is happening.

The writer used words like precarious, ghostly, broken, abandoned, decayed, and desolation to try to cause a feeling of uneasiness to surface in the reader. He personifies the windmills by saying that they were “ distinctly evil… with remnants of arms hanging derelict from their snouts. ” This personification greatly adds to the overall dominant impression of the descriptive essay. The reader can picture the windmills standing looking like dark, creepy ancient makings that have been undisturbed for a long time. 5.

Connotation- an idea or feeling one associates with a given word in addition to its literal meaning. Example #1: In “ The Valley of Windmills”, Mary Lim depicts the hazardous windmills by using the words: “ squat forms”, “ boulders”, “ fortifications” and “ broken wooden crosses”. Commentary: All of these words have menacing connotations. The word “ broken” makes me think of a ceramic vase falling to the floor and shattering on impact, propelling hazardous glass shards outward at dangerous speeds. This is a very negative and possibly painstaking connotation for broken.