Friday, October 14, 2011

Figurative Language CHAPTER TWO

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  1. The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible ws the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. (Fitzgerald 25) This is personificton; a room cannot be bare and a vehicle cannot crouch in a corner.
    -kenneth hill

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  2. "Ocasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track."(Fitzgerald 23) Fitzgerald is saying that the cars travel slowly. Personification, cars can't crawl.
    -Anthony Bristow

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  3. -This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.(Fitzgerald 23) -This is a simile and Fitzgerald is say how thick and widespread the ashes were.

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  4. "neither of them can stand the person they're married to" (fitzgerald pg.33) Epigram- descibes the unhappiness of the mariages.
    **-Justin Duncan-**

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  5. The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.(25) metaphor- saying that the interior of the car was dirty.

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  6. "Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track...." This is personification because cars can not crawl.

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  7. Kyle
    "Neither of them can stand the person they are married to"(Fitzgerald 33).Epigram- explains that their marriage is unhappy

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  8. He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.


    Deep examination of Gatsby

    Descriptive imagery

    Sorry mr pyon, I posted in the last one by accident

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  9. "The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high." (Fitzgerald 23). Descriptive imagery. It is describing how big his eyes appeared.

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  10. The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirt, with a solid, stickcy bob of red hair, and a complexion powedered milky white. (Fitzgerald 30)
    He is describing Catherine as having red hair and being pale.

    David

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  12. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity- except his wife, who moved close to Tom. (Fitzgerald 26). . . This simile describes what he is wearing and how pale his hair is.

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  13. It was nine o'clock- almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten. (Fitzgerald25)...This epigram expresses how fast time seemed to go by.

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  14. We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been suprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner. (Fitzgerald 28)
    This quote uses descriptive imagery to describe the weather.
    -Ben Jones

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  15. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eye. ( Fitzgerald 25) - Descriptive imagery.

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  16. "Keep your hands off the lever", snapped the the elevator boy. fitzgerald (37)

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  17. The apartment was on the top floor- a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom, and a bath.

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  18. Courtney Gibson - "It really his wife kepping them apart. Shes a catholic and they dont belive in divorce" Symbolism

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  19. Courtney Gibson (fitzgerald 33)

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  20. "She pointed suddenly at me, every one looked at me accusingly. I tried to show by my expression that I had played no part in her past." The expressions he tried to show. (imagery)
    (Fitzgerald pg. 35)
    Natalie Watts

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  21. "This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"(Fitzgerald 23). simile talks about how the ash could be found everywhere.

    Emily smith

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  22. "Can't stand them." She looked at Myrtle and then at Tom. "What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them?If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away."

    This is a conversation about marriage where gossip has an influence to break people apart if their marriage is not steady and 'in the right hands.'

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  23. "Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight." (Fitzgerald 23)
    -Descriptive imagery. --*Like a boss.*--

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  24. Her eye-brows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

    This is saying that she looked pleasant but at the same time she was hard to figure out.

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  25. "The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high." (Fitzgerald 23). This descriptive imagery is saying that his eyes appeared huge.

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  26. "Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." (Fitzgerald 25). This is desciptive imagery. It's saying what she had on.

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  27. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleberg are blue and gigantic - Their irises are one yard high.

    Descriptive Imagery: Saying that his eyes are ginormous.

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