Figurative Language by Megan

Directions

mgabridge — 2017-02-15 13:40:20 UTC

1. Type your names
2. Rewrite your quote(s)
3. Compose your analysis
4. Type one word from "The Oval Portrait" (p. 17 in t-tank), its definition, then attach a pic to support it

"Quote 1 (assigned)"
Devices:
Analysis of each device

"Quote 2 (you choose)"
Devices:
Analysis:

Turret- a small tower

Desirae, Bret, Cole

2017-02-15 16:44:37 UTC

Vinny, Kameron, Timmi Boi

2017-02-15 16:44:42 UTC

Quote 1: "Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight."
Devices: Personification, Repetition, Alliteration.
The strangling and wrestling of the vines are repetition as well as an idea of personification. Strangling and Sunlight are seen as an element of Alliteration.

Quote 2: "While the rear one sweeps the ground in a rhythmic limp."
Devices: Antithesis, Metaphor, Synecdoche
When the author uses this metaphor, "...sweeps the ground...", they aren't actually sweeping the ground just moving across of it.
The author uses the term "rhythmic limp" it indicates that is indeed and antithesis because it is composed of two contrasting because a limp isn't a very rhythmic action. In the final snippet, "...Rear one sweeps the ground...", it is a synecdoche because is uses one thing to represent something else.

Vines

Brennen, Jason, Brandan

2017-02-15 16:45:16 UTC

Quote 1- "Her dark hair is tied in a ragged lace handkerchief, and her curved jawbone is lit with large, false-pearl earrings, as if these headlamps from another world might show the way." Simile and analogy are used, comparing the girls large, false-pearl earrings to headlamps.
Quote 2- "The one short and fierce, the other tall and imperious." Analogy is used by comparing the "short and fierce to tall and imperious." Repetition is used by using the words "the" and "and." Antithesis is used by saying one is tall, and one is short.
Tattered- ragged

Michael, Tyler, Alex

2017-02-15 16:45:20 UTC

Quote 1: "A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps"
Devices: Assonance, Antithesis, Metaphor
Analysis: The seedlings are compared metaphorically to a choir. The choir suggests that the seedlings seem lively. The contrasting ideas of life and death being the seedlings and rotted tree stumps show the extremes within the jungle. Assonance is used with the hard E sound in seedlings and tree to create a rhythm in the reading.
Quote 2: "They are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies."
Devices: Antithesis, Metaphor, Alliteration
Analysis: The girls are compared to pale, doomed blossoms to foreshadow the fact they are in danger. Doomed blossoms is also used as antithesis to show that these young, blossoming, and lively females' lives are in danger. Alliteration is seen with "blossoms, bound" to assist in the stories rhythm.

Tattered-Ragged

Jack, Otis, and Dylan

jwilson58 — 2017-02-15 16:45:44 UTC

Quote 1- "The one short and fierce, the other tall and imperious."

Devices: Analogy, Metaphor, and Antithesis.
Analysis: Analogy- Compares two people with a similar characteristic fierce and imperious.
Antithesis- compares the two and how they are short and tall. These are contrasting ideas.
Metaphor- Comparing the two people without like or as and using words to express ideas.

Quote 2- "Each one tensed to fire off a woman's heart on a different path to glory or damnation."

Devices: Synecdoche, Metaphor, and Antithesis.
Analysis: Synecdoche- The story says "Each one" yet, it is inferred that "one" is for a girl and just so there isn't one word being spammed.
Antithesis- By using "glory or damnation" brings in opposite thought and makes you think what could possibly happen to them.
Metaphor- "fire off like a women's heart" makes us think of the heart like a gun.

Inexorable- the inability to stop; unmovable

Cyle, Shane, Patrick

2017-02-15 16:48:20 UTC

アレックスとキーリーと Koda, and Jordan

2017-02-15 16:49:46 UTC

Quote 1 - "While the rear one sweeps the ground in a rhythmic limp."
Devices - Synecdoche, metaphor, and antithesis
Commentary -
Antithesis - "rhythmic limp": Kingsolver uses this as an antithesis, attempting to contrast the ideas of the grace and order of rhythm, and the irregularity of a limp.
Metaphor - "sweeps the ground": This is comparing the girl to a broom.
Synecdoche - "rear one sweeps the ground": The rear one is making great haste, such are her speeds that they represent a broom's sweeping.

Quote 2 - "Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight."
Devices - Personification, repetition and alliteration
Commentary -
Alliteration - "strangling, sunlight": They both start with "S" and therefore represent alliteration
Personification - "strangling" and "wrestling": These are human-like behaviors and represent personification.
Repetition - "strangling" and "wrestling" are the same ideas and are being repeated.

Incipient - early stages

Cyle, Shane, Patrick

2017-02-17 16:02:53 UTC

Quote 1- "Each one tensed to fire off a woman's heart on a different path to glory or damnation."

Devices: Synecdoche, metaphor, and antithesis

Analysis: In the beginning, the girls are referred to as "one" which can be thought of as a synecdoche, because one does not directly refer to children. After that it says, "Fire off a woman's heart," which could be a metaphor for a gun, and brings up the idea of being unstable. Lastly, an antithesis is shown between the words," glory or damnation."

Quote 2- "A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps."

Devices: Personification, Antithesis, and Assonance

Analysis: This quote illustrates personification by describing the seedlings arching their necks. It also shows antithesis by the contrasting idea of the dead rotten log and the new healthy seedlings. Finally, the quote shows assonance through the repetition of the vowel "o" at the end of the quote.

Turret- Small tower

desirae, bret, cole

2017-02-17 16:03:17 UTC

1. "They are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies."
Devices: Antithesis, metaphor, and assonance.
Doomed blossoms are being used through antithesis because its a contrast through light and dark. Through metaphor the girls are being compared to the blossoms. The vowel sounds between blossoms and bound are shown by assonance.
2. "a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps" Devices: metaphor, antithesis, and
The metaphor is used when the seedlings are compared to a choir. The contrasting between life and death shows in an antithesis.
-Manifold

Brendan S

2017-02-17 16:07:31 UTC

Quote 1- "A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps."
Devices- Personification, Assonance

2017-08-30 23:57:08 UTC

“flanked by matched brunettes like bookends”

2018-12-12 18:15:03 UTC

antithesis.

2019-05-07 04:59:09 UTC

2020-09-08 22:40:15 UTC

“They are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies”