Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
The setting effects them by putting them in a good mood because the scenery is so nice. The setting also changes by adding rooftops which are houses when the people think that the setting was better as it was in natures true form. A setting I wish I could see and one that I love dearly is at the motocross track. Being at the motocross track is so fun, because the track is right next to the river bank and we park in the sand. There are trees and the track has some parts in a field, but then it goes over to the river bank. The water is always cold and there is always a small breeze like a cold winter blow that goes by since the river is so close.
