“Westward, the woodlands and farms reached miles and miles into the distance; here and there were church steeples, and white villages; truly it was a vast and awesome world.” (66-69) Sarah Orne Jewett dramatizes a young heroine’s adventure throughout her short story, “A White Heron”. Jewett achieves her dramatization through her particular use of exaggerated literary tools which she incorporates throughout her story. A few of the tools which fulfill Jewett’s hyperbolic statement include diction, imagery, and character choice. Primarily, Jewett uses diction as the driving element which achieves a dramatization of her main character’s adventure. Jewett uses a heightened and wonder filled diction as a means of applying a higher experience and a greater sense of emotion to her main character’s journey. As Jewett begins her poem she describes the tree which proves to be her main character’s primary obstacle. Jewett describes the tree …show more content…
Jewett provides excessive and attractive images with the intent of applying a desired impact to her main character’s journey. Jewett illustrates multiple lucid scenes as a means of complimenting her main character’s journey to a point of exaggeration. Some of the scenes which Jewett illustrates in an advanced fashion include the tree and the main character climbing the tree. Jewett describes the trees as a “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight” (16-17). Jewett also describes the main character while climbing the tree, and she states that, “[there were] green leaves heavy and wet with dew” (24-25), as well as that, “It was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth” (42-43). Jewett’s heightened imagery serves as a means of dramatizing and complimenting her short story’s plot, and this is displayed through Jewett’s images which display her main character’s journey in a dramatic