Metaphors, similes and symbols by https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1 Explain a literary device from your short story and post the image from your slide that you will use in the presentation. Vote and comment on other student's images. en-us 2020-05-27 07:35:17 UTC 2025-11-19 06:53:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Ivan the Terrible roncbell https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914950283 Ivan is very timid but the villagers call him Ivan the Terrible - as a joke. This is ironic.]]> 2020-11-12 03:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914950283 Group 1: The floodgates that had stood closed for years now burst https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914961451 This conveys the release of her built up emotions and pain over the year. Her emotions are the water behind the gates that’s waiting to be let out. It also suggests that her emotional barrier and her cold hard exterior has also been broken down. ]]> 2020-11-12 03:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914961451 Group 1: One trauma like the one she had lived through was more than enough. - (coming home) https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967025 This signifies that the trauma of her losing her son had a significant impact in her life, making her an emotionally detached woman. 

]]> 2020-11-12 03:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967025 "He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man's". https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967100 Doodle was just a new born baby but the author use the word shriveled to describe his skin.]]> 2020-11-12 03:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967100 how cheap life seems when one is helplessly swept away like a feather in the wind (The Shelter) https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967157 Life is compared to a feather swaying in the wind to emphasize how vulnerable and resistless ordinary people are in a war and how ruthless the war is.]]> 2020-11-12 03:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914967157 Then will come soft rains“like mysterious invaders” https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914969180 Robot mice are compared to invaders & they come out of nowhere.The narrator used word invaders referring to the nuclear war that had happened.


]]> 2020-11-12 03:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914969180 The scene in which the author stoned someone to death is an allusion to a famous Biblical fable. In "Jesus and the Adulteress", "Jesus' enemies demanded that He stoned the adulteress to death in accordance with the law" https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914971202 2020-11-12 03:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914971202 “The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green…” Story sets in a seemingly peaceful and civilized society, in sharp contrast to the terrible death ending coused byviolent behavior. https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914971550 2020-11-12 03:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914971550 Group 1: Fine brown eyes not unlike her own - ( Coming home) https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914973021 This gives a hint in the story that both Mary and the young man have brown eyes. It slowly builds up to her acknowledging the young man as her biological son. This links to the theme of “ gaining “ her son. ]]> 2020-11-12 03:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914973021 Life had returned to her https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914974070 In this context, Mary's son is being compared to life and she wasn't living life to the fullest after she lost him. She was just an empty shell. When he returned, it's like a rebirth to Mary's life ]]> 2020-11-12 03:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914974070 Group 1: “She had nothing to do with men for twenty years” - ( coming home) https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914976196   This expresses there is an emptiness in her life where she had no love, companionship, no family or kinship because she had this guilt and trauma she faced because of what happened twenty years ago with her son that was taken away. This also represents the loss in the theme before she gained her son. 




]]> 2020-11-12 03:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914976196 “like a cat watching a bird” https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914980945 The author makes good use of this symbol as a form of describing Mary as a captive bird all her life being suffocated and trapped due to her missing son. 


]]> 2020-11-12 03:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914980945 porcelain cats https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914982167 the author uses cats in the story to illustrate Mary's life. Cats are a symbol of rebirth and healing which connects with the theme. When Mary smashes the porcelain cat at the young man, this signifies that she has transformed her old solitary life into a brand new life, reconnecting with her son.


]]> 2020-11-12 03:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914982167 https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914996155 "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." 
The technology has advanced and served people  in many ways but it's ironic,the house perform tasks but there's no human presence to get use of it. Same technology has destroyed the humana by nuclear bomb.]]> 2020-11-12 03:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914996155 Scarlet Ibis https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914997707 The author use scarlet Ibis as a symbols of Doodle- delicate and beautiful even though it not the same as other but easily to destroy or hurt. ]]> 2020-11-12 03:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/914997707 https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/915009437 Birds fly 
As we all know the fly always means the freedom and the dream so this bird fly is like to run the freedom]]> 2020-11-12 03:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/915009437 Then will come soft rains https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/915012767 ''Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, "Who goes there? What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia."

It is ironic that the house is trying to protect what is inside, but everything is destroyed. It could not protect the people of the family. They are dead.]]> 2020-11-12 03:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/roncbell/6hmjwsdae4q72bl1/wish/915012767