Quarantine Work
Wednesday 15th of April 2020
Lesson 1 – After the lesson…
“…she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled her back and stuck like a blur just out of reach.” -Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The literary technique used in this statement is a hyperbole. This is because it is saying her back is scrambled which is being unrealistic.
“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away as it I’m nothing more than a women of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.” – The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The literary technique used is personification. “Time has not stood still.” It is describing the time with a human characteristic. It is also using the language of metaphors. “Washed me away as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand.” Here it is saying some is as something it is now.
“… and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.” – Lorna Doone: A romance of Exmoor, by R. D. Blackmore
The literary use is a simile. “Like a lady’s gloves forgotten.” The patches of the snow are described as a lady’s forgotten gloves.
“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.” – Lord Jim, by Joseph Canrad
The literary use is a simile. “Like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.” The author is describing the thing or person as a bird in a cage.
“She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.” – The Adventure of the Three Gables, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The literary use is a simile. “Like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.” The lady is being described as a chicken, with chicken characteristics.
“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” – Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The literary use is a simile. “Like a door that had neither lock nor key.” The mystery of the guy had excited the women and the author had described it as a door.
“It was Fraçoise, motionless and erect, framed in the small doorway of the corridor like the statue of a saint in its niche.” – Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
The literary use is a simile. “Like the statue of a saint in its niche.” It is used to describe Fraçoise.
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