Friday, May 11, 2012
Imagery for To Kill a Mockingbird
Post the examples of imagery you found in To Kill a Mockingbird. Be sure to include the page numbers and the beginning of the quote. If someone makes a mistake, or if you have a question about if one is correct, post that as well. Remember this is for English class so NO TEXTSPEAK!!!
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litote - chapter 12 p. 160 "You all know of brother Tom Robinson's trouble". Trouble is a litote because he was in more than trouble, he was on trial for his life, so calling the situation "trouble" is an understatement.
Metonymy -- instrument for the agent: p. 129 Chapter 10. "Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time." Saying Atticus was the shot is metonymy because he is not the shot, his gun is. Atticus is merely good at shooting a gun.
more metonymy on p. 121...
Hyperbole- “Miles of construction paper.” (page 36)
Oxymoron- “Happy cemetery.” (page 135)
Simile- “By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of Catawba worms.” (page 18)
~Kendall
Simile- "These were abstract speculations for the first month of her stay, as she had little to say to Jem or me, and we saw her only at meal times and at night before we went to bed." (pg. 175)
-Mikayla
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand” - said by Atticus Finch on page 149.
--- Daniel
ps: Mrs. Emery said no text speak because me and Maria were using it on her last post haha bfelt like pointing that out...
that's a metaphor by the way
"Old Adolf Hitler has been prosecutin' the-" p.327 Apostrophe
"...people said the house died." p. 15 personification
"The old was the same, droopy and sick..." p.19 personification
"Happy cemetery." p. 157 oxymoron
"You all know of Brother Tom Robinson's trouble." p. 160 litote
"... that boy might go the chair..." p. 195 metonomy
"... don't let 'em get your goat." p.101 idiom
"Dill had seen Dracula..." p.9 allusion
"The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto the pavement." p.50 simile
Simile- "it's like a Roman carnival.' (pg. 213)
Personification- "When Miss Maudie was angry her brevity was icy." (pg.312)
-Sofie
"Mrs. Merriweather played her voice like an organ"-simile(page309)
"May comb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it"-personification(page5)
-Peter
"The authorities released us early the last day of school". page 45, metonomy - instument for agent
"Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like distant artillary." simile page 161
Hyperbole- "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.” p6
Allusion- "...passing them along through that English Channel of gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford." p323
Alliteration- "..several swift, satisfying fist-fights..." p326
ok soooo on page 293 "he'll go the chair" is an example of metonomy
on page 253 "and that was the proof of the putting is an idiome because how can pudding have proof
page 139 it's not time to worry yet is a motif
"Summer was on the way." - Reification, page 45
"...Popped me like a cork onto pavement." - Similie, page 50
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” - Metaphor, page 45
Personification-"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired olf town when I first knew it." p. 6
Personification- "The old house was the same, droopy and sick..." p.19
Onomatopoeia- "Punk, punk, punk, here needle broke the taut circle" p. 183
Allusion to the Bible- "Let this cup pass from you, eh?"- Uncle Jack p. 117
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