Lit-Trap Island - Block 4 by Jill https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey Find Literary Devices to escape the Island en-us 2017-09-27 17:12:27 UTC 2025-12-23 11:16:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. "Find a quote from the story that fits the device" and include the page number. jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191781245 2. Summarize the action in the story in one sentence.
3. Describe the mood in the story created by the device in one sentence.
4.Analyze the meaning of the device in one sentence.
Include your group name and get approval for your ticket to the next task.]]> 2017-09-27 17:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191781245 Pages - 144,146,150,151,166,167,168,169,170 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785669 2017-09-27 17:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785669 Pages - 146,147,148,150,154,155,164,165,166 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785751 2017-09-27 17:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785751 Pages - 144,148,149,159,166,169,170,172 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785844 2017-09-27 17:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191785844 Pages - 147,149,150,151,152,153,161,162,166,167,169 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786500 2017-09-27 17:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786500 Pages - 148,150,170,173 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786597 2017-09-27 17:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786597 Pages - 144,145,146,147 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786669 2017-09-27 17:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191786669 Group 6: Rory, AJ, Anne, Linda dahlr_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191796380 “the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore" (148).

Mood: The mood is eerie.
Whats going on: Rainsford is swimming in the direction of gun shots.
What does it mean: The sea is making loud and scary noises.


]]> 2017-09-27 17:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191796380 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191796940 Group 3. Mia, Sara, kupu, Andre 
"]]> 2017-09-27 17:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191796940 Group mckimmeyc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797182 2017-09-27 17:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797182 "The sea was a flat as a plate glass window" pg 146 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797487 Rainsford and Whitney are on a  boat in the ocean.
The mood is eerie.
The simile is showing how quite and eerie the setting is.]]> 2017-09-27 17:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797487 Group 1: Isabella, Lizzie, and Jacob https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797722 The General is hunting Rainsford.
"The Cossack was the cat; and he was the mouse." 
The mood is suspenseful. 
The meaning is that the General hunting Rainsford like a cat and a mouse.]]> 2017-09-27 17:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797722 Group 2 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797972 "The lights of the yacht became faint and ever vanishing fireflies"
This was when Rainsford got to shore, watching the yacht fade away into the distance.
The mood is very hopeless
The meaning of this metaphor is that the yacht continues to go further away and the lights of the yacht are vanishing, just like fireflies would.]]> 2017-09-27 17:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191797972 Group 5 schoenbaumi_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191798312 "The night would be my eyelids."

Meaning that the night is as dark is his eyelids are in the dark. This also means that the room he is in is so dark that he can ]]> 2017-09-27 17:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191798312 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191798949 2017-09-27 17:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191798949 Group quachc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799095 2017-09-27 17:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799095 Group 4 quachc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799219 "An apprehensive night crawled." Pg. 166
This is giving human-like qualities to "night"


]]> 2017-09-27 17:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799219 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799267 Group 3
"All he know was the he was not safe from his enemy the sea"   pg148
Rainsford finally made it to the shore after jumping off the boat.
Mood: tiredness ]]> 2017-09-27 17:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191799267 Group 6: Rory, AJ, Anne, Linda https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191800718 “ Some wounded thing, by the evidence a large animal, had thrashed about in the underbrush; the jungle weeds were crushed down, and the moss was lacerated; one patch of weeds was stained crimson. A small, glittering object not far away caught Rainsford’s eye, and he picked it up. It was an empty cartridge.
”(149)
Mood:the mood is eerie
What is going on: Rainsford finds am empty cartridge
What does it mean: Rainsford is trying to understand the forest to blend in as much as possible.
]]> 2017-09-27 17:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191800718 Group 6 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191801525 “Don’t talk rot, Whitney,” said Rainsford. “You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”
”

Rainaford is talking to Whitney about how hunting doesn't affect the hunter. The mood of this quote is questionable. This is because 
not everyone agrees with the quote. The quote means that Rainsford  

]]> 2017-09-27 17:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191801525 Group 8: It's so dark, I thought that i could sleep without closing my eyes; castellanosf_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191801626 General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford. The mood is very tense and scary.]]> 2017-09-27 17:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191801626 Group 7 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802188 "The lights of the yacht became faint and everlasting fireflies."
 
Mood: suspenseful

The lights were getting dimmer looking like fireflies in the distance.

The meaning of this device is to provide some imagery for the reader for what the likes look like.]]> 2017-09-27 17:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802188 Group 5 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802692 Personification is giving human qualities to non living things. This quote is an example of personification because a night can't crawl.
“An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake”


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]]> 2017-09-27 17:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802692 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802754 2017-09-27 17:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191802754 Group 6 dahlr_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191803976
“He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had but it was like seeing through a blanket" (147).

Mood: The mood is suspenful and scary.
What is going on: Rainsford is trying to see where the gun shots came from.
What does it mean: I means it is so dark Rainsford can only see very little shadows.]]> 2017-09-27 17:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191803976 Group 5 schoenbaumi_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804338 “You’ve good eyes,” said Whitney, with a laugh, “and I’ve seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean .”

This quote describes how Whitney says that Rainsford has good eyes which is one of the five senses which is a simile
]]> 2017-09-27 18:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804338 Group 5 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804865 “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his head.
”
The mood creates an frightening eerie feeling. Like there is blood in the water thats collecting in the waters.

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Carol Jago
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]]> 2017-09-27 18:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804865 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804903 "Giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monsterwith  wide-open jaws." 
The mood is frightening.
It means that the rocks are very sharp and they look like a sea monster's jaws.]]> 2017-09-27 18:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191804903 Group 3 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805030 " A sharp hunger was picking at him." P.148
Rainsofrd was very hungry because he had just same and has no food.
Mood: Hunger]]> 2017-09-27 18:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805030 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805219 When he's on the boat he hears a sound he's never heard before.
"It came out of the darkness, a high, screaming sound, the sound of an animal, in an extremity of anguish and terror."
The mood is very erie.
This means Rainsford heard unlike one he's never heard before.

]]> 2017-09-27 18:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805219 Group 2 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805252 "He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viscously at his foot as if it were a giant leech." 
At this time, Rainsford was being hunted and was walking in the Forrest.

The meaning is that the plants were grabbing his feet viscously getting human like traits.]]> 2017-09-27 18:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805252 Group 6 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805304 “He flung himself down at the jungle edge and tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life.”


This quote occurs when Rainsford is in the middle of being hunted. The mood is exciting because readers are in anticipation of what is going to happen to Rainsford. The quote means that Rainsford is enjoying his sleep because he is
]]> 2017-09-27 18:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805304 Group 7 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805520 "He covered the mouth of the pit"

Mood: working

Rainsford is making a trap for Azar off to step in and he's covering the hole of the pit he made with leaves.

The hole is the mouth of the pit because it is going to "eat" general zaroff

]]> 2017-09-27 18:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191805520 Group 4: mckimmeyc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806421 ""It's so dark , "he thought, " tha I could sleep without closing my eyes, the night would be my eyelids." Page 146 Rainsford is driving on the boat through the night

]]> 2017-09-27 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806421 Group 6 dahlr_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806458 “Oh, that fellow. Yes, he was a monster”

Mood: Scary
What does it mean:


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Mood: 
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]]> 2017-09-27 18:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806458 Group 3 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806581 "I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall brush at 400 yards but even you can see four miles or so though a moonless Caribbean night" p.144
You can not see the island because it has lots of thick trees and brushes 
Mood: ]]> 2017-09-27 18:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191806581 Group 8 castellanosf_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807129 "The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies" pg. 147 
Rainsford just fell off of the boat and it is vanishing from his sights as he
The mood is intense

]]> 2017-09-27 18:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807129 Group 2 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807482 "Some wounded thing, by the evidence a large animal, had thrashed about in the underbrush"
In this quote you can hear a large animal moving.
The mood is scary and dark
The meaning of the device in this example is that there is something very large close to him.

]]> 2017-09-27 18:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807482 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807847 The General brags about how strong he is.
"They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut"
The mood is egotistical.
The General only cares about what he accomplishes.]]> 2017-09-27 18:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807847 Group 5 schoenbaumi_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807943 “Rainsford heard a sound. It came out of the darkness, a high, screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror.”

This quote explains forshadowing because he hears animals in the island near that he will soon be huntin gin the future. He mood is scary and frightening.


]]> 2017-09-27 18:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191807943 Group https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808212 "The ]]> 2017-09-27 18:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808212 Group 4 mckimmeyc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808368 2017-09-27 18:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808368 Group 3 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808386 " It's like moist velvet." P.144
It is very thick waters and is very hard to get through.
Mood: determination 

]]> 2017-09-27 18:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808386 Group 5 schoenbaumi_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808947 “He lived a year in a minute.”

His talks about how he is living a year in a minute which is not possible and extreme exaggeration which is what Hyperbole means.
The mood is how he is mysterious and frightened.

]]> 2017-09-27 18:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191808947 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809290 2017-09-27 18:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809290 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809372 The General is hinting that the new animal is a human.
"I had to invent a new animal to hunt"
The mood is disturbing.
This means that he is trying to hint that no one's ever hunted what he's hunting before]]> 2017-09-27 18:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809372 Group 3 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809390 " Your a big game hunter not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels" ]]> 2017-09-27 18:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809390 Group 7 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809391 "delicately adjusted to rest on the cutliving one, crashed down and struck the general”

Mood: suspenseful

The tree hit the general

The author is des ring the trees positon and it falling down



]]> 2017-09-27 18:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809391 Groups 4 mckimmeyc_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809399 "The apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake." Page 166 The night was creeping up on rainsford ]]> 2017-09-27 18:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809399 GROUP 8 daoa_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809404 "An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake"(166). 
This is telling us that the night crawled slowly, but the night cannot crawl which is a personification.]]> 2017-09-27 18:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809404 Group 7 cid_rosasm_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809573 "An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake"

Mood

]]> 2017-09-27 18:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809573 Group cid_rosasm_21 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809608 2017-09-27 18:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191809608 Group 4 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810017 "...Giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws." Page 159 The author describes the rocks to provide a mental image for the reader]]> 2017-09-27 18:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810017 Group 2 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810171 "They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut"
In this quote general Zaroff is explaining how string the rocks are
The mood is frightening 
It is simile because it uses the word "as"]]> 2017-09-27 18:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810171 Group 1 https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810449 Rainsford is looking at Ivan and seeing how tall and huge he is.
"The first thing Rainsford eyes discern was the largest man Rainsford had ever seen- a gigantic creature, solidly made and black-bearded to the waist."
The mood is silent.
Rainsford is]]> 2017-09-27 18:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191810449 "The sea was as flat as a plate glass window." pg 146 jcavotta https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191882206 Rainsford and Whitney are on a boat in ocean at night.
The mood is spooky.
By describing the ocean as being so still and quite it creates tension in the story.]]> 2017-09-27 21:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jcavotta/7xkhvc5pqzey/wish/191882206