All 8 Uses of
evoke
in
Light in August
- Then it seemed to him, sitting on the cot in the dark room, that he was hearing a myriad sounds of no greater volume—voices, murmurs, whispers: of trees, darkness, earth; people: his own voice; other voices evocative of names and times and places—which he had been conscious of all his life without knowing it, which were his life, thinking God perhaps and me not knowing that too He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead, God loves me too, like the faded and weathered letters on a last year's billboard, God loves me too.†
Chpt 5evocative = bringing strong feelings or memories to mind
- He could not see her face at all now; he seemed to swing faintly, as though in a drifting boat, upon the sound of her voice as upon some immeasurable and drowsing peace evocative of nothing of any moment, scarce listening.†
Chpt 11
- But now there was nothing evocative of unspoken promise, of rich and unmentionable delights, in them.†
Chpt 12 *
- It had neat and virgin coils of hose evocative of telephone trust advertisements in the popular magazines; but there was nothing to hook them to and nothing to flow through them.†
Chpt 13
- It was as though he carried within him, somewhere within that inert and sighing mass of flesh, the secret itself: that which moved and evoked them as with a promise of something beyond the sluttishness of stuffed entrails and monotonous days.†
Chpt 13evoked = called forth or caused
- Then the ground, the bark of trees, became actual, savage, filled with, evocative of, strange and baleful half delights and half terrors.†
Chpt 13evocative = bringing strong feelings or memories to mind
- It is a canvas deck chair, mended and faded and sagged so long to the shape of Hightower's body that even when empty it seems to hold still in ghostly embrace the owner's obese shapelessness; approaching, Byron thinks how the mute chair evocative of disuse and supineness and shabby remoteness from the world, is somehow the symbol and the being too of the man himself.†
Chpt 16
- He had believed in the church too, in all that it ramified and evoked.†
Chpt 20evoked = called forth or caused
Definition:
to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind