Figuratively Speaking
Her deep laugh sounded like a dog throwing up.
What is a simile?
The Crucible demonstrates how crowd-based hysteria can replace logic and tear apart a community.
What is a theme?
She spoke of beautiful landmarks in Brazil.
What part of speech is "spoke"
What is a verb?
From "Give me liberty or give me death" speech:
"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"
What is a rhetorical question?
A statement that asserts the opposite of a position or claim
What is a counterargument?
The green light, in "The Great Gatsby"
What is a symbol?
In The Great Gatsby, this is the plot element that involves George Wilson murdering Gatsby in the swimming pool.
What is a conclusion / resolution?
Never again will John walk through the door and utter those words to his mom.
What part of speech is "door"?
What is a noun?
From "Give me liberty or give me death" speech:
"The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."
What is repetition?
Presents events of the past in the midst of a story in the present.
What is a flashback?
From "Boy Soldier" poem
What a smile! One large lamp for a face,
smaller lanterns where skin stretches over
bones waiting for muscle, body all angles.
What is a metaphor?
Note: Also will accept "What is imagery?
East Egg and West Egg are "identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay ... They are not perfect ovals ... but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."
What is a setting?
He posts meaningless messages on his Instagram account.
What part of speech is "meaningless"?
What is an adjective?
From "Give me liberty or give me death" speech:
"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne."
What is parallelism?
The quality of the story that makes the reader curious, worried or excited about what will happen next.
What is suspense?
Earth says to Neptune, "Hey man, do you feel hot today?"
Neptune says, "No dude. It's just you."
The sun says, "What smells? Earth, was that you?"
Earth says, "Oof. I've got greenhouse gas."
What is personification?
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
What are characters / characterization?
Also will accept "what is theme?" (because, you know, English class is not an exact science..)
Darryn coughed loudly to get her attention.
What part of speech is "loudly"?
What is an adverb?
From "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Is it Logos, ethos, or pathos?
"I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise."
What is ethos?
The way the author feels about the subject of the literature; this isn't usually expressed through direct statements; it is usually expressed indirectly through particular word choice
What is tone?
"At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden."
What is alliteration?
"Daisy, Daisy, Daisy," shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy, Dai-. Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."
What is a conflict?
She made a weird tik tok and then uploaded it to her page.
What part of speech is "to"
What is a preposition?
From "Give me liberty or give me death" speech:
“If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged”
What is parallelism?
To suggest or hint at something without stating it clearly.
Hint: it's not infer
What is imply?