Simile or Metaphor
...Bayonets fixed like eternal lightning lost in the orchard grass.
What is a simile?
The door creaked as I slowly pushed it open... Darkness.
What is imagery?
...he turned the drum on its side, where its great lunar face peered at him...
What is the drum (or its face)?
Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
What is personification?
The wet sand pushed up between Maria's toes.
What is tactile imagery (touch)?
You’re the heart of the army.
What is a metaphor?
The tragic hero is one of these.
What is a character archetype?
I yelled at my mother about how she didn't understand me, then walked out of the house. The wind blew hard, slamming the door closed as if angry. Not sure if it's angry at me or at her.
What is the wind?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a similie?
...salt sweat, ginger, tobacco, horse, and boot leather, and the earth he walked upon.
What is olfactory imagery (smell)?
...the waves rolling in like a well-ordered cavalry charge to the sand.
What is simile?
Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
What is personification?
My brother said the famous last words, "Hey, guys, watch this." Next thing I knew, he was whipping his car around the corner. I heard the tires screech defiantly as he tried to put on the brakes. He hit a sign that said stop. Ironic, I know.
What are the tires?
A word's emotional meaning or connections.
What is connotation?
Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter seawater, causing him to cough and gag...
What is gustatory imagery (taste)?
A moth brushed his face, but it was peach blossom. A peach blossom flicked him, but it was a moth.
What is a metaphor?
Don't delay.
What is alliteration?
My aunt dates a lot. Her husband passed away years ago. Now she goes from pub to pub looking for relief from the disease of loneliness that plagues her. Only instead of getting a little piece of paper from a man with a prescription on it, she is the one giving out the little pieces of paper. Her phone number is really tired of being passed around.
What is her phone number?
The 4 different types of point of view in narrative writing.
What are 1st, 2nd, 3rd Limited, and 3rd omniscient?
The crimson blood spilled from the neck of the white dove, staining and matting its pure, white feathers.
What is visual imagery (sight)?
It’s wrong as a head put on hindside front and a man marching backward through life.
What is a simile?
Read between the lines.
What is inference?
As she watched her true love sink deeper and deeper into the cold and dark ocean until the ocean was all she could see, Edna suddenly became alarmingly aware of her circumstances. The only thing keeping her from sharing her husband's cold and waterlogged fate was the dismantled cabin door that now gently rocked her cold body to sleep... perhaps never to wake again.
What is the door?
A narrative shift that changes the story's trajectory.
What is a turning point?
...lit with rustling taps on the drumskin...
What is auditory imagery (sound)?