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50

In the quote the author uses "long, short walk" as a ______?

"That long short walk to the toilet."


Oxymoron 

50

What type of stage directions were used in the following quote?

MORAG: moves across the floor and stops irresolutely. She is restless, expectant.

Performance stage directions 

50

What device does the author use to bring a memory?

"I remember there was an old man living next door who seemed to share my disposition."

Flashback

50

 What device is shown in the quote below? 

"Clean as a flower, smooth as silk"

Simile 

50

The author uses an _______ statement to set a demanding tone.

"MARY STEWART: Do not be so anxious, Morag. Keep to what he says. Put more peat on the fire now and sit down."

Imperative Statement

 [Imperative Statement refers to a statement made with authority, demand or importance]

100

In the quote the author compares the guard to the Grim reaper using a ______?

 "I sit in my corner and wait for the guard to go. But today the door is opened again. I sit, my face draped in my towel. The Grim Reaper squats before me and with his faulty English asks ‘Why don’t you eat?’"

Metaphor

100

What type of imagery does the author use through the use of personification? 

"Oh, that wind! Hear to it, sobbing round the house as if it brought some poor lost soul up to the door, and we refusing it shelter."

Auditory imagery, sound 

100

The author uses "loneliness" to convey the _________ of the scene.

"The loneliness of the scene affected me."


Atmosphere 

100

In these quotes the poet uses _____ imagery.

"What great fine thin translucent ears

What chestnut down and crapy wings"

Visual Imagery

100

In this quote the author uses _________ with "cold and dreary" to set the type of atmosphere. 

*HINT: specific words that an author selects to convey meaning, tone, actions or related to authors purpose*

"It must have been a month or so later, on a cold, dreary November morning, the sun faint behind a gauze of clouds, that the other call came."

Word choice

150

In the quote the author uses a ________ question to reveal internal thoughts.

 "How can I, in any case, explain what is only understood in my senses and not in my mind?"

Rhetorical 

150

The author uses what device to create the atmosphere?

"MARY STEWART: It was just the wind; it is rising more. A sore night for them that are out in the heather."

Weather 

150

The author uses short sentences for example in the sentence below. This is called a _______?

"That was all."

Syntax

150

In this quote the poet uses words choice to create a religious ________?

"Lightless, unholy, eldritch thing"

 Allusion

150

In this quote the author introduces Aunt Jane to the readers; Barry and his aunt form a ________. 

"Yes, Barry… This is your Aunt Jane."

Relationship

200

In the quote the author uses what type of imagery?

"The door closes, the padlock rattling, and it’s over again for another day."

Auditory imagery 

200

What type of stage directions are being used?

[The room is scantily furnished, and the women are poorly clad. MORAG is barefooted. At the back is the door that leads to the outside. On the left of the door is a small window. On the right side of the room there is a door that opens into a barn. MORAG stands for a moment at the window, looking out.]

Technical stage directions

200

The author shows Obama lacking response to convey he is processing _______? 

 "Aunt Jane. Listen, Barry, your father is dead. He is killed in a car accident. Hello? Can you hear me? I say, your father is dead. Barry, please call your uncle in Boston and tell him. I can't talk now, okay, Barry. I will try to call you again…"

Emotions

200

What type of statement is made in the quote below?

"Go hunt the hurtful fly."

Imperative Statement 

200

The beginning of the sentence, where it says "Today I am..., marks a _______ in the story.

Cautious: First quote is the sentence before the quote asked for.

 "Now I know them and can go with them and hold them in my control."

"Today I am returned to my cell and as the door closes, I sit in my corner and wait for the guard to go."

Shift 

300

What device do authors use to overly list items?

"A brown button bowl and in it some apricots, some small oranges, some nuts, cherries, a banana."

Asyndeton

300

In this quote the author uses what type of statement?

"What was that?"

Interrogative Statement

300

In this quote the author uses what type of imagery?

"Smelling eggs burn in the kitchen, staring."

Olfactory 

300

The poet emphasizes the sound of the bat through word "swoops", but he also uses what poetry device?

"Swoops so sickeningly"

Alliteration.

300

What type of sentence does the poet use if line 1 runs into line 2, and line 2 runs into line 3?  

"Even fear must yield to love,

And pity make the depths to move."

Enjambment