Friday, March 4, 2011

Figurative Language

Imagery

“They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by the four enormous walls made of gray stone and coveredin spots of thick ivy. The walls had to be hundreds of feet high and formed a perfect square around them, each sides split in the exact middle by an opening as tall as the walls themselves…..” Ch.2

Simile

“They finally made it to a rectangular cut in a long wall to the north that looked like a doorway without a door” Ch.33

Symbol

WICKED- World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department-Ch.33

Written in green letters on the back of little creatures that spy of the Gladers.

Imagery

“Ben’s head snapped violently to the left, twisting his bosy until he landed on his stomach, his feet pointed toward Thomas. He made no sound” Ch. 11

Imagery/ Describing setting

“There was the sound of snapping wire. The whoosh of an object slicing through the air. The sickening, wet thunk of it finding home” Ch. 11

Imagery

“The early-morning light had a sharp sheen about it, making everything look bright and crisp-the ivy, the cracked walls, the stone blocks of the ground” Ch.33

10 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for this help. Coming from a seventh grader, this is an extraordinarily helpful article for my last-minute book review for school. Whoever wrote this deserves a thousand wishes. Thank you again!

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  2. wait imagery isn't figurative language...

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  3. thank the lord, i found something actually helpful. my IR report is due tomorrow morning. :,)

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  4. Omg thank you so much this is just what I needed.

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  5. thankto god my book project id due the 20th

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