Figurative Language
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
What is anaphora?
--absolute silence, then the wind, then the sunlight, then the voices...
What is anaphora
The intangible items that the men carry with them (name two)
What is grief, fear, ghosts, love?
They moved like mules
What is a simile?
The soldier who carried a hatchet and a Bible?
Who is Kiowa?
...a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride...
What is juxtaposition
What was Jimmy Cross doing when Lavender was shot?
What is dreaming about Martha?
They plodded along slowly, dumbly, leaning forward against the heat...toiling up into hills...
What is visual imagery?
They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained...for it could never be put down.
Who is a metaphor?
Why was "imagination a killer"?
What is lead to panic or bad decisions?
This was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war.
What is a simile?
The soldier who is shot in the story.
Who is Ted Lavender?
...screening it with his body, holding the photographs over the tight blue flame with the tips of his fingers.
What is visual imagery?
Two things that could happen to a tunnel rat.
What is die in a collapse, be buried alive, or be shot by the Viet Cong?
...slashing, feeling both love and hate, then later, when it was full dark, he sat ...and wept.
What is juxtaposition
Buried under the white sands on the Jersey Shores (2 names)
Who are Martha and Jimmy Cross?
He hated her. Love, too, but it was a hard, hating kind of love.
What is alliteration?
They burned everything. They shot chickens and dogs...
What is the village of Than Khe?