Active and Passive Voice
Identify the voice and change it into the opposite voice:
She ate candy.
Active.
Candy was eaten by her.
The use of an object or person to represent an idea
What is a trowel?
A tool used by masons to lay mortar
What is a sharecropper?
A tenant who uses farmland and is paid in crops produced instead of money
What is the legend of La Llorona?
Identify the voice and change it into the opposite voice.
Costumes are worn by many children on Halloween.
Passive.
Many children wear costumes on Halloween.
What did the old man's heart represent?
Guilt
Montresor opens the story by explaining his dislike of Fortunato. When he greets Fortunato, he pretends to like him. What literary device is this an example of?
Dramatic irony
What does myopic mean?
Nearsightedness
What is gentrification?
The process whereby an urban area is changed by wealthy people moving into the area, buying property and improving it, thus driving the cost of living up, and displacing current residents
Identify the voice and change it into the opposite voice.
I will wash the dishes tomorrow.
Active.
The dishes will be washed by me tomorrow.
What did the old man's eye represent?
Evil
What does Fortunato mean? What literary device is that?
It means good fortunate. It is an example of situational irony.
"She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment."
What literary device is this?
Onomatopoeia
What is Ramon's attitude towards the homeless? Why?
He detests them because they remind him of his unhappy childhood, where he grew up in poverty.
Identify the voice and change it into the opposite voice.
The documents were released into the public domain.
Passive.
Someone released the documents into the public domain.
What did the narrator think about the police officers as they spoke to him?
Foreshadowing and verbal irony
What do the flowers symbolize? How do you know this?
They symbolize her innocence and purity. She picks them along her walk, when she is still childlike, but she sets them down on the ghost's grave as a way of honoring him. This is a signal to the reader that she has been made aware of the injustices of the world and has been forced to mature in response because she lays the flowers on his grave.
What does the Llorona symbolize?
Identify the voice and change it into the opposite voice.
All reservations will be made by the wedding planner.
Passive.
The wedding planner will make all reservations.
Please identify the following literary device AND analyze the quote:
"You cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily - until at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye."
Simile
The author compares the light to the web of a spider. Webs are spiders' homes, but they are also used to entrap their victims. The old man has visited the narrator's home, and has been entrapped as a victim. Thus, this simile also compares their relationship to that of a spider and its prey.
Montresor sought revenge on Fortunato for an insult, but nothing more is explained. Why does this contribute to the suspenseful and scary nature of the story?
Since we have an idea of "the punishment fits the crime," we would assume Fortunato did something extreme to deserve death in such a cruel, extreme way. However, because we're not told what it is, and because Fortunato himself doesn't know what he did, it creates suspicion about the mental stability of Montresor.
"And the summer was over."
What literary device is this an example of? What does it mean? How does that literary device help us to understand that meaning?
What happened in the end of the story?
Ramon sees the Llorona in the rain and goes to her. It represents him finally facing and coming to terms with the problems of his childhood instead of running away.