Saturday, October 22, 2011

Figurative Language Chapter Six

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  1. Your place looks like the World's Fair

    Describing Gatsby's house

    Metaphor

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    1. ACTUALLY its a simile because it uses like so

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    2. ACTUALLY that quote is from chapter five too...

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  2. "Tom's arrogant eyes roamed the crowd." (Page 104)
    Personification

    -Natalie Watts-

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  3. The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.(pg 108) Personifacation
    Kyle

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  4. It was dark here in front; only the bright door sent ten feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.(Fitzgerald 107) Descriptive Imagery

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  5. "...but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before." (Fitzgerald 104) Descriptive imagery. He is saying that he could sense something was different in the atmosphere of the room.
    -Ben Dibble

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  6. repeat the past- go back to the past and do it again.

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  7. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (fitzgerald pg.73) He almost remembers a phrase but then it disappears as if it was never there.
    Hunter Smith

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  8. "But his heart was in a constant, turbulant riot."
    Personification- hearts can't actualy riot.
    ANTHONY BRISTOW

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  9. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain... (Fitzgerald 99)
    Metaphor: He is comparing Gatsby's brain to a clock
    -Ben Jones

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  10. Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod, and they trotted quickely down the drive...(fitzgerald 103) Discriptive imagery. The book is expressing how swift and quick the group of people left wlking down the driveway
    -kenneth hill

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  11. But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. (Fitzgerald 99).
    Personification: your heart cant really have a riot.

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  12. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald 111)

    Imagery
    He is describing how it feels to have something on the tip of your tounge that you can't remember.
    David

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  13. "Tom's arrogant eyes roamed the crowd" This is personification because he is giving Tom's eyes a human trait.

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  14. his heart was in a constant, turbulant riot. A heart can't really be in a turbulent riot.

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  15. "A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand..." Fitzgerald, 99.
    -Descriptive imagery.

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  16. only the hot whistles of the national biscuit company broke the simmering hush at noon
    a train cant really stop the heat

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  17. Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, that rouged ans powdered in an invisible glass.

    Imagery and personifictaion

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  18. For over a year he has been beating his way along the south shore of Lake superior as a calm-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.

    This is saying that he is not all about materials.

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  19. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald pg.111)

    Descriptive Imagery: This is showing that he had a word on the tip of his tongue that he could not remember.

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  20. .. When i had reached a point of believing everything and nothing about him.
    He didnt know what was true and what was fake.

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  21. "They were a party of three on horseback." (Fitzgerald 101). This is a metaphor. It's saying that the people are a party.

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  22. your place looks like the world's fair. its a metaphor telling what gatsbys house looks like.
    ~stephanie watson~

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