Figurative Language
A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as."
Simile
Where is Marvin and his colony living/located?
On the Moon.
What is John's role in his tribe?
John is a priest.
What type of figurative language is being used in the following excerpt from "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. "In the living room the voice-clock sand, Tick-Tock, seven o'clock, time to get up. . .
"Tick-Tock" is the sound of a clock: Onomatopoeia
Made the sound of a bell.
Chimed
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
Vocab: What is a journey to a sacred place?
Pilgrimage.
What type of figurative language is being used in the following excerpt? "The current of the great river is very strong-- it gripped my raft with its hands. That was magic, for the river itself is wide and calm."
Personification: the river is described as having hands to grab.
Infer: What figurative language is being used in the following excerpt: "Hidden Films clocked though the well-oiled sprockets, and the walls lived" (Bradbury 725).
The walls are described as living: Personification.
Traditions; actions that are commonly done by a group of people.
Customs
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Example: They have a Love Hate relationship.
Oxymoron
Who wrote the short story, "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth"?
Arthur C. Clarke
What figurative language is being used in the following excerpt? "'It is mind,' I said, while the smoke waved and my head felt light. They were singing the Star song in the outer chamber and it was like the buzzing of bees in my head.
Simile or Allusion.
Who is the author of the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
Who is Ray Bradbury.
A fluorescence that persists after radiation has ceased.
Phosphorescence.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
Marvin is described as 'sheltered' because of his lack of experiences. How has Marvin experienced the world before the events of the story?
He has read about them in books and "watched it imaged on television screens. . ."
How did the narrator arrive at his insight about who the gods of the Dead Places were?
He discovers a dead man's body.
What are the five pictures burned on the outside of the house doing?
Father is mowing, mother is planting flowers, and the children are throwing a ball.
A state of extreme distress of body or mind.
Anguish
Synecdoche
What figurative language is being used in the following excerpt? "The were intense unscintillating points, and suddenly he remembered a rhyme he had once read in one of his father's books: Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are."
Allusion.
What figurative language is used in the following excerpt? "There was no strength in my knowledge any more, and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird-- alone upon the great river, the servant of the gods."
Simile.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a wonderfully crafted imagination of a ruined, apocalyptic future. Many of his imaginations, or predictions, are strikingly similar to modern technology. Name three of Bradbury's creations as well as their modern counterparts.
Answers will vary.
Managed or controlled through clever moves.
Manipulated