Figurative Language
I'd walk through fire for you
hyperole
To completely destroy
Annhilate
The protagonist of the story
Eckels
A sound of thunder
metaphor
Why does the young man kill the old man?
Because of his vulture eye
Today was a fairytale...you were a prince
Metaphor
Vex means...
annoy, worry, anger
What does Eckels step on which altars time?
A butterfly
Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins.
Simile
What does the black dot in the Lottery represent?
Death
Shine bright like a diamond
Simile
To revoke means to
takeaway/cancel
Travis's number 1 rule of time travel...
stay on the path
It could reach up and grab the moon
What does the heart in TTH represent?
Guilt, anxiety
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
Personification
To give back a payment
remit
2055
Suns fled, and ten million moons fled after them.
personification
What is the climax of TTH?
When he kills the old man
‘that you were Romeo, you were throwing
Pebbles
And my Daddy
Said ‘ stay away from
Juliet’
Allusion
To completely cover
engulf
What were the type presidential candidates names?
Deutcher and Keith
Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all”
Allusion
Name one example of foreshadowing in the Lottery
- Names (Mr. Summers, Delacroix)
- The children gathering stones in the beginning