Chapter 7 - Figurative Language by Colleen McCarrick

"Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay." (Chpt. 1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 01:50:20 UTC

"A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags..." (Chapt 1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:53:41 UTC

"...twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling..." (Chapter 1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:54:12 UTC

"...and then [the breeze] rippled over the wine colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea." (1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:54:39 UTC

"swirls and eddies of people I didn't know." (Chpt 3)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:55:14 UTC

"The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two yound women were buyoed up as though upon an anchored balloon." (Chpt 1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:55:33 UTC

"It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body" (Chpt 1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:56:02 UTC

"...in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispherings and the champagne and stars" (4)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:56:24 UTC

"'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly." (7)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:57:09 UTC

"Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fan" (7)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:57:41 UTC

"The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door..." (1)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 13:59:37 UTC

“So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (Fitzgerald 114)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 14:00:24 UTC

“So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (Fitzgerald 114)

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 14:00:32 UTC

“So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes”

MlleMcCarrick — 2015-10-22 14:00:41 UTC

Tanay and Kaleb

2015-10-23 12:39:29 UTC

This is an an example of a metaphor Because it is a comparison not using like or as. It is comparing Daisy's voice to money.

simile - comparing the curtains to flags

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Sam & Spencer

2015-10-23 12:40:39 UTC

1. Metaphor

2. The mansion is being personified by the author describing it as "overlooking the bay". This is personification because mansions, being inanimate, cannot overlook things.

Becca and Chris

2015-10-23 12:40:42 UTC

This is an example of personification, giving the lawn the human action of running, when in fact, lawns don't run.

Alex, Isabelle, and Gwen

2015-10-23 12:40:54 UTC

This is an example of simile because it uses "as" to compare the breeze on the rug and the wind on the sea

Ally & Devin & Erin

2015-10-23 12:41:56 UTC

Personification

Chase and Garrett

2015-10-23 12:42:33 UTC

Metaphor

Alysa and Ashley

2015-10-23 12:42:40 UTC

This is a metaphor because it is comparing the cake to the ceiling, and does not use like or as.

Carlos & Lucas

2015-10-23 12:45:21 UTC

This quote represents a simile and how their looks portray their wealth and the way they live.

Chase and Garret

2015-10-23 12:47:29 UTC

Agreed

2015-10-23 12:47:43 UTC

I agree

Mattie, Britney, Kenny

2015-10-23 12:48:07 UTC

simile: comparing the couch cushions with a balloon

2015-10-23 12:48:19 UTC

lawns indeed do not posses the ability to run. noice

agree

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yup

2015-10-23 12:48:39 UTC

I agree

Ashley and Alysa

2015-10-23 12:48:57 UTC

We agree this is a similie because of the comparing of the 2 objects using like and as

i agree!

2015-10-23 12:49:42 UTC

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年

2020-04-22 19:56:26 UTC

haha