Language Connotation: The associated meaning of a word or phrase.
Extended Metaphor: Like a regular metaphor, but looks to draw on the shared figurative characteristics of two concepts in order to extend the device, you should consider how language connotations, similes, and metaphors and other devices combine throughout a piece to continually convey the shared characteristics.
School Quad
Some people believe that human kind is evil by nature, that the good people have to choose to be good everyday, but what defines it? Is it the little white lie that is told to spare someone extra pain? Nothing is that apparent, but everything can be observed by simply watching people, and so sitting in the quad, the little patch of green grass in the middle of the school, people sit and watch. Now this isn’t staring, this is older and younger persons sitting down with a book or a phone, glinting glasses on and only occasionally looking up to watch the younger ones throwing a bright red ball, the reflective surface blinding if thrown too high into the sun. Little girls stand at attention, gossiping about the girl who wore her hair up today, while a group of boys of mixed ages play a game that defiantly involved yelling and chanting.
Some people think that human kind is evil by nature, that the good people have to choose to be good everyday, but what defines it? Is it the white lie that is told to spare someone extra pain? Nothing is that apparent, but everything can be observed by simply watching people, and so sitting in the quad, the small patch of grass in the middle of the school, people sit and watch. Now this isn’t staring, this is just people sitting down with a book or a phone, glinting glasses on and occasionally looking up to watch the younger ones throwing a bright red ball, the reflective surface blinding everyone if thrown too high into the sun. Little girls stand at attention, gossiping about the girl who wore her hair up today, while a group of boys of mixed ages play a game that defiantly involved yelling and screaming.
The girls in the corner gossiping and whispering opinions, eyes darting around like monkeys, as if they were to be found out. Children play and throw their red shiny ball, and laugh about how it flies into the crowd or into the trees, the crowd gargles and
If you were to see the school quad at blackest midnight, it would be a different place, somewhere you’ve never been before, and inky black pool that someone has spilt glitter into. You can see the Milky Way from here, the quit peace almost equivalent to being alone on the beach in the early hours of the morning, if you could forget that you’re on school ground.
Stretching against the twilight, the skyline of NYC stands boldly in stark silhouette. Much like a tree canopy, each skyscraper fought for a glimmer of sunlight, of which only grazed the tops of proud, posing buildings. The jungle of concrete and glass soaking up attention from the ants who made their way through the mazes with the soul purpose of getting home for the evening. Below the fading sun, various beings go about their business, Night-lifers dressed in bright colours shout to one another across streets, and taxi drivers slam their breaks and yell at a group of teenagers to get off the road. Rushed people walk past the homeless man without a glance, as if used to the sight of scraggly beards and sullen faces. Occasionally, one breaks away from the masses to give the man a few coins and a sandwich, a warm smile and they’re off, whisked away by the forever flowing current of the river called NYC.
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