Beach Review 2

Examples

100

She was a quiet as a mouse.

simile

200

She is all nations and I am all kings.

metaphor

300

So I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love...and jewelry?

repetition

400

The structure of an atom is like our solar system. The nucleus, containing the proton and the neutrons, is the sun and the electrons are the planets. Just like our sun, the nucleus is stable, while the electrons revolve around the nucleus just like our planets revolve around the sun.

analogy

500

At an early age so at an early stage in life / I chose to get my ish tight ya gotta struggle and fight / It cost an arm and a leg just to live on your knees / And I'm trying to keep my sanity God help me please

idiom

Examples

100

Blueberry stains are stubborn, that is why I use Oxyclean before putting stained clothing in the dryer.

personification

200

She bought a bit of butter for her bread.

alliteration

300

And we drive / Now that I have found someone / I'm feeling more alone / Than I ever have before / She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly / Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere / They call her name at seven thirty / I pace around the parking lot / Then I walk down to buy her flowers / And sell some gifts that I got

metaphor

400

She was with me before the deal, she been trying to be mine / She a Delta, so she been throwing that Dynasty sign / No use in me tryin' to be lyin', I been trying to be signed / Trying to be a millionaire, how I used two lifelines / In the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died / The doctor said I had blood clots, but I ain't Jamaican, man / Story on MTV and I ain't trying to make a band / I swear this right here, history in the making, man --> It's NOT rhythm or rhyme although these are obviously present

allusion

500

Something was wrong. Mr. Avery was red in the face from a sneezing spell and nearly blew us off the sidewalk when we came up. Miss Stephanie was trembling with excitement, and Miss Rachel caught Dill's shoulder. "You get on in the backyard and stay there," she said. "There's danger a'coming'." "'s matter?" I asked. "Ain't you heard yet? It's all over town--" At that moment Aunt Alexandra came to the door and called us, but she was too late. It was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us: this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life.

foreshadowing

Examples

100

At that time, we were so poor we didn't have two cents to rub together.

hyperbole

200

All of a sudden--splat!--a bug hit the windshield, providing a counterpoint to the gentle whir of the wheels.

onomatoepoeia

300

Stormy and wet, and mud deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.

setting

400

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry

hyperbole

500

"Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down in the cellar I'll have them drowned," exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.

simile

Examples

100

The sales clerk applied a lot of pressure, but I wasn't sure about purchasing the car, it was pretty ugly.

oxymoron

200

The yellow half-moon, large and low, flooded the fields with a soft light, thick like honey and tasting of lilac.

sensory imagery

300

He pressed the bell. Far away in a back room he heard it ringing, and then at once —it must have been at once because he hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell button—the door swung open and a woman was standing there. 
Normally you ring the bell and you have at least a half-minute’s wait before the door opens. But this dame was like a jack-in-the-box. He pressed the bell—and out she popped! It made him jump. 

foreshadowing

400

BACKGROUND : Archer has been cheating on his wife, May, since shortly after their wedding. It was the custom, in old New York, for brides to appear in their wedding dresses during the first year or two of marriage: his mother, he knew, kept hers in tissue paper. It struck Archer that May had seldom worn her bridal satin, and the surprise of seeing her in it made him compare her appearance with that of the young girl he ad watched with such blissful anticipation two years earlier. ...blah, blah, blah, they go out in bad weather...he thinks about the affair and wonders if May knows about it...They go home... She went up to Archer, and taking on of his cold hands pressed it quickly against her cheek. "My head aches too; good-night, dear," she said, and turned to the door, her torn and muddy wedding-dress dragging after her across their room.

symbolism

500

In the sacrificial system set up at the very beginning of the Bible, people were supposed to offer certain animals to God at certain times for certain reasons. At the Hebrew temple in Jerusalem, every morning and evening, a lamb was sacrificed as a SIN offering--meaning it was supposed to pay God for the sins that people had committed that day. In the new testament... The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"

metaphor OR symbolism

Examples

100

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

rhythm

200

"Nice job on that test, Einstein! Your mother is going to be so happy with a D!"

verbal irony

300

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

irony

400

My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and having established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up "by hand." Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying of laying it upon her husband, as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand. She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; she had, with black hair and eyes, such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a cheese grater instead of soap. She was tall and bony, and almost alwyas wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops.

characterization

500

I'm an elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. This loaf's big with it s yeasty rising. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there's no getting off.

metaphor