Read the following sentences and in your workbooks complete the activities.
Activity One- Define the words which are underlined. You may use a dictionary if needed, but try to work them out yourself.
a) “The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.” b) "His fists were half-cocked, as if expecting an onslaught from us." c) "He examined Walter with an air of speculation." d) "Atticus kept us in fits that evening, gravely reading columns of print about a man…" e) "…we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing…" |
Activity Two- Choose the language device for words in bold. If you are having trouble, you may look up the devices given.
a) "…her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils. Her hands were knobby, and the cuticles were grown up over her fingernails." (simile/imagery/metaphor) b) "…let this cup pass from you…" (irony/personification/allusion) c) "… fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house." (personification/imagery/irony) d) "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." (simile/allusion/colloquialism) e) "…wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms…" (metaphor/simile/imagery) |