Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Hard Times - Literary Terms - ch. 2

LITERARY TERMS:
alliteration - "mighty man", "professed pugilist" (5)
hyperbole - ""always in training...ready to fight all England...coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer. He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter..." (5)
tone - "The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at cutting and drying he was; a government officer..."
symbolism - flowered carpet / horses on walls - innocence / naivety / childlike splendor
metaphor - "He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles..." (7)


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