Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Figurative Language Chapter 7

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  1. "The next day was broiling"
    It is going to be very hot the next day.
    Descriptive Imigery
    -Anthony Bristow

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  2. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. (Fitzgerald pg.77)
    Hunter Smith

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  3. Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. (Fitzgerald 115)
    Simile: He is comparing Daisy and Jordan to silver idols using the word like.

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  4. There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125)
    Descriptive imagery- this is expressing how Tom was feeling. He was under a lot of pressure and started to panic
    -kenneth hill

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  5. Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, molding its senselessness into forms.

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  6. "The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty..." This is a simie. It is a simile because he is comparing the kitchen to a pigsty.

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  7. Life starts all over when it gets crisp in the fall

    Reassuring

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  8. weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. Fitzgerald 115
    personification- the breeze cannot sing

    emily smith

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  9. There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125)Descriptive imagery showing how tom was feeling
    Kyle

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  11. “So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (Fitzgerald 114) Simile. The whole situation had fallen in on its self and stopped because Daisy didn’t like it.
    Ben Dibble

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  12. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.

    Personification

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  13. "Her voice is full of money."
    Personification

    Natalie Watts

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  14. "Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days alongshore." (Fitzgerald 118)
    Imagery
    He is describing what they see when they look out across the sea to the other Egg.
    David

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    1. Are they looking at East or West Egg?

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  15. "Her voice is full of money."- Metaphor: it just saying house well her voice sounded.

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  16. The next day was broiling, certainly the warmest, of the summer.

    Using the word broiling is saying that day was extremly hot.

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  17. "slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky."

    Personification: Boats do not have wings (under normal circumstances).

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  18. I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because i could think of nothing but the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.
    Imagery

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  19. "We were silent. The voice in the hall rose high with annoyance." (Fitzgerald 116). This is descriptive imagery. it's discribing the quiteness.

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  20. "Daisy and Jordan lay upon a small couch like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans."

    Descriptive Imagery- Fitzgerald 115.

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  21. "my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs..." its a simile

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  23. "Kill all teh niggerz" metaphor

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  24. What literaly device or figurative language is in this quote?
    "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before."
    Please help

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