The Landlady
“Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass”
And
“The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks."
What is a simile
"This house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and was good to them."
What is personification
"A single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye."
What is a simile
The weathered old box that the townspeople refuse to update despite no longer knowing why they use it or where it came from, which represents outdated traditions and societal norms.
"Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box."
What is symbolism
Taylor Swift repeatedly uses the time 2:00AM across multiple songs and albums to signify loneliness, this emerging pattern is a:
What is a motif
Billy’s admiration of the landlady’s taxidermy skills and observation that the tea smelled like almonds, while the reader is aware and unable to warn him
The “clink” used to describe the sound of the nursery door
What is onomatopoeia
The story opens after the murder has already taken place
What is en media res
The shock of the big reveal relies on this literary device, set up early by the reader’s expectation of what a lottery is and the stark contrast of the ending
What is irony
In Drake’s song “That’s How You Feel,” he uses repeated short i and u vowels when he says “I’m just in the cut sitting sideways, way that you look in all the time”
this is
Assonance
Every time the landlady mentions the similarities of the other guests or Billy notices the emptiness of the home
What is foreshadowing
The children’s names being Wendy and Peter, after two other children who choose to find fantastical independence from their parents
What is an allusion
The hinges "creaked," the cricket "chirped," and the floorboards "grated"
What is onomatopoeia
What is setting
In “Logical” Olivia Rodrigo says “ now you got me thinking that 2+2 = 5” which is a reference to Animal Farm, making it an
What is an allusion
What is repetition
The fact that all the technology that was meant to bring happiness and ease to their lives resulted in the very opposite
the heartbeat that the protagonist hears, which is really a manifestation of his guilt, is an example of this
What is symbolism
The children gathering stones as the arguments get worse and conflict arises
When Justin Bieber says, “my life is a movie” it is a
What is a metaphor
What is exposition
“The nursery was silent... It was a bank, a vault, a memory, a electronic dream”
What is a metaphor
The narrator says that his hearing is so good that he can hear things in “heaven and hell”
What is hyperbole
If the theme of "The Lottery" is blindly following traditions leads to conformity and violence then traditions is:
what is a motif
When Kanye calls himself a god it is an example of
Hyperbole