RITS/Short Story/Persepolis
What is the theme of the open window in "Story of an Hour" ?
Mrs. Mallard is now free from her oppressive husband and marriage- she feels like she has opportunity ahead of her.
What poetic device is being used in the following line of the Raven? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before"
Alliteration
What are the three ways to embed quotes?
Flow, comma, colon
“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers”
Personification
Dialogue is a method of________________characterization.
Indirect
How has Marjane's relationship with God evolved throughout the novel, Persepolis?
evolves from a comforting, childlike faith, where God is a nightly companion and she wants to be a prophet, to outright rejection as political oppression and religious hypocrisy become undeniable, culminating in her banishing God after her uncle Anoosh's execution, symbolizing the loss of innocence and the replacement of divine faith with self-reliance and a focus on worldly struggles.
The "handicaps" in "Harrison Bergeron" symbolize....
the oppressive government's forced, absolute equality, representing the suppression of individuality, natural talents...lack of freedom
an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text is:
Allusion
"The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower"
Metaphor
The theme of "Thank you Ma'am" is........
"Forgiveness is more valuable than punishment"
What do the "eggs" symbolize in RITS?
Dismissal of Walter's Dreams; he wants to break free but is kept in the same cycle of domestic work
What type of figurative language is present? "Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority"
Hyperbole
Whose line is this? "When the world gets ugly enough -- a woman will do anything for her family. The part that’s already living.”
Mamma
“A great nuzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall”
Personification
The definition of "bleed" is.....
What does Beneatha's nickname, "Alaiyo," symbolize?
symbolizes her deep yearning for something more than mere survival, meaning "One for Whom Bread—Food—Is Not Enough," highlighting her quest for intellectual, spiritual, and cultural fulfillment beyond material needs or societal expectations
What poetic device is being used in the following line: "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping"
Internal Rhyme
The following line from Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is an example of which type of figurative language?
"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound"
Metaphor
"Wow...you really let the cat out of the bag"
-- What type of figurative language is this?
Idiom
The definition of a gutter is....
The space between framed panels
The magic carpet that Marjane imagines her and her family riding on is a symbol for.......
Freedom
What element of gothic horror is described?: "But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror."
Supernatural
A term that describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways
Graphic Weight
Using the quote below, identify the type of figurative language present in the text: “And on either side of the river there was a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (158).
Allusion
Allows centering of image by using natural resting place for vision. The artist deliberately decides to place the image where a viewer would be most likely to look first.