The Power of the Lion(Figurative Analysis)

Author’s note: This is an analysis on my lion poem. It is about the figurative language used in it.

Figurative language helps us imagine the words on the writing just like it did in this piece. All the uses of figurative language let us imagine the words clearly. It also helped make it fun in the process. Instead of having the lion be explained boringly, the lion was explained colorfully. The tone is praising because I am praising the lion for all the power he has. However the mood showed the readers that lion was a little bit cocky to have himself being explained like this.

Many types of Figurative language was used in this piece. Similes and metaphors helped us compare the lion to other things to know what the lion is like more precisely. Personification was to show how he was in a more fun way. Hyperboles helped us imagine his strength compared to the other animals. Onomatopoeia helped show us how he sounded. The allusion used reminded us of memories of a movie if we had seen it. Lastly the  alliteration helped the beat of the poem instead of having it be in a monotone voice. All these figurative languages hook us into reading the poem because we will like it more because of it.  

Parody poem

Author's note: This is a parody of the poem This is Just to Say. The tone is sarcastic and humorous.

You know your stash

Of cash

The was in

Your closet

I have used it

So that you don’t

Waste it on

Your sorry self

So I'm sorry

That you couldn’t

use the money

On your stupid self

What to do?

Author’s note: This is a conflict/resolution piece on the book Eagle Strike.

What would you do if you were a prisoner to a maniac and you had the chance to escape? Would do you run like a fawn escaping from a lion or would you be like Alex Rider? Alex hadn't run away scared, but he had stopped to look for evidence to put the psychopath away so that he would not hurt anyone else. The psychopath, Damian Cray, was trying to get rid of drugs forever by launching America's nuclear bombs at drug facilities all over the world. Alex got caught in that conflict when he had followed Yassen, an assassin working for Damian Cray.

Alex Rider is not your ordinary kid. When he saw the person who had killed his uncle, he knew there was a problem. Instead of running away he had set out to find out what was wrong. He knew that if he followed him that he would be in danger but he did it anyway which had saved millions of lives.

Quick thinking is a trait that Alex Rider has used a lot to save him. When he was trapped in a room with almost nowhere to go Alex hadn't let panic get to him. He had quickly examined the room to find a way out. When he got out he had come across many traps. He thought he would use them to play dead in front of the guards so that he could escape behind them. His quick thinking and led him to a solution which saved him from doom.

Not all of the solutions had been good in the book. The head of M16, a secret organization, had not believed Alex when he was told that the international pop star, who was considered a saint, was up to something. That had almost led to many nuclear bombs exploding in different places of the world which would have destroyed millions. Their solution to wait and see what would happen had put the world at risk.

Millions of lives were saved because Alex decided to go after Damian and stop him from launching the nuclear bombs by killing him. He knew he would be the only one to do it because since no one believed him, not even M16, the organization he has worked for in the past.

Analysis:

Figurative language helps explain the mood of a written piece really well and this piece was no exception. The tone was easy to see because the figurative language helped explain it. At the start of the piece it was showing that there was not much hope for Mudville. Then they had used figurative language to make Casey look like the savior and angel. Because of that our hopes would have gotten up but then was quickly destroyed in a pleasant way.

They had used things like anaphora to make the piece flow smoothly. That had made the piece much more interesting than having it in a monotone voice. Not only did they have anaphora, they had metaphors to explain things in a more fun way. Personification was a great way to explain things because it created a clear image of the thing being explained. All these are a figurative language. They helped the piece by making it more fun and in the process making it have a clear image of the idea being presented.

Giant Pandas: Strength in Brawn not Numbers

Authors’ note: I wrote this to show what pandas are like because not many people know what they are like.

The giant panda is a marvelous creature and they shouldn’t be taken for granted. There are only thousands left in the world. It is an endangered species and soon it might be extinct. We should keep the panda going because it is a wonderful creature. Not many people know about the panda and its qualities.

Giant pandas don’t always live up to their name. When babies the panda is considerably small. “A newborn cub weighs three to five ounces and is about the size of a stick of butter. Pink, hairless, and blind, the cub is 1/900th the size of its mother”(park). Its size is trivial compared to its mothers size and that makes it hard for the mother to take care of her cub. “Cubs do not open their eyes until they are six to eight weeks of age and are not mobile until three months” (park). They can’t even do anything until then so the mother has to do all the work for the baby until then.

After the baby has grown it will get its food from bamboo. Bamboo is what its diet mainly consists of. The panda will have to eat lots of bamboo because the panda has an inefficient digestion system and most of the food is passed as waste so it will eat lots of bamboo to make up for it (park). It also gets its water from bamboo because bamboo has water inside of it. Since that water is not enough it will also drink water from the stream.

Food that they eat keeps them alive but not as long as we live. Pandas lives are less than 40 years. It is not known how long a panda lives in the wild but scientists are sure it is less than what a panda lives in the zoo which is 35 years old reported by Chinese scientists (park). Their life-spans might be short but it is not the reason that they are endangered. People had hunted them and made them lose their habitat. We only acted to save them after they became endangered. The reason that they cannot populate fast is because a female panda usually only successfully raises 5-8 cubs in her lifetime (park).

Pandas are simple but fascinating. They have many qualities that people don’t know because they don’t care. They should care however because pandas have the right to live just like us. We should help their species live on and not become extinct.