All 9 Uses
convey
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
(Edited)
- At the same time, he wants to convey the sense of tension and conflict that has been running through the evening—there are a host of us-against-them and you-against-me moments earlier and even during the meal—and this tension will stand at odds with the sharing of this sumptuous and, given the holiday, unifying meal.
Chpt 2convey = communicate or express
- In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) he has Dr. J. drink a potion and become his evil half, while in his now largely ignored short novel The Master of Ballantrae (1889), he uses twins locked in fatal conflict to convey the same sense.
Chpt 3
- A name has to sound right for a character—Oil Can Harry, Jay Gatsby, Beetle Bailey—but it also has to carry whatever message the writer want to convey about the character or the story.
Chpt 7 *
- If this was a place you came from, and you knew these people like you know your own family, you'd want to depict the jealousies and resentments and adventure and danger, as well as capturing their dignity and their life in a way that conveys all that has escaped the notice of tourists and white property owners.
Chpt 9conveys = communicates or expresses
- Lawrence called one of his best novels The Rainbow (1916); it has, as you would guess, a certain amount of flood imagery, along with all the associations that imagery conveys.
Chpt 10
- Allegories have one mission to accomplish—convey a certain message, in this case, the quest of the devout Christian to reach heaven.
Chpt 12convey = communicate or express
- The river is both danger and safety, since the relative isolation from land and detection is offset by the perils of river travel on a makeshift conveyance.
Chpt 12 *conveyance = means of transportation
- More important, though, is the item I place at the end of my list, that the purpose of telling Alex's story is to convey a message of religious and spiritual profundity.
Chpt 26convey = communicate or express
- Those other aspects are a bit of ironic window dressing the author embeds in his text as cues for how to understand Alex's story and the message he unwittingly conveys.
Chpt 26conveys = communicates
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.