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Quote (page) |Literary Term Applied |Proof of Literary Term |Purpose of Literary Term | |
|EXAMPLE: “The sea was as flat as flat as a |Simile |sea as flat as window |Emphasizes lack of movement; calm sea. |
|plate-glass window.” (14) | | | |
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|1. “There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat|1. |1. throb, swish |1. |
|there, but the muffled throb of the engine that drove| | | |
|the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish| | | |
|and ripple of the wash of the propeller.” (14) | | | |
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|2. “It’s so dark…that I could sleep without closing |2. |2. night would be eyelids |2. |
|my eyes; the night could be my eyelids—” (14) | | | |
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|3. “He strained his eyes in the direction from which|3. |3. strained to see through the darkness like trying |3. |
|the reports had come, but it was like trying to see | |to look through a blanket | |
|through a blanket.” (14) | | | |
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|4. “The lights of the yacht became faint and |4. |4. yacht’s lights compared to ever-vanishing |4. |
|ever-vanishing fireflies: they were blotted out | |fireflies | |
|entirely by the night.” (15) | | | |
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|5. “He saw no sign of a trail through the closely |5. |5. web of weeds and trees |5. |
|knit web of weeds and trees.” (16) | | | |
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|6. “The door opened…and Rainsford stood blinking in |6. |6. light from chateau compared to a river |6. |
|the river of glaring gold light that poured out.” | | | |
|(17) | | | |
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|7. “The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant |7. |7. Ivan compared to (as) a statue |7. |
|were a statue.” (17) | | | |
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|8. “My whole life has been one prolonged hunt.” (19)|8. |8. Zaroff compared his life to a hunt. |8. |
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|9. “giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea |9. |9. giant rocks like sea monsters |9. |
|monster with wide-open jaws.” (22) | | | |
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|10. “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and |10. |10. Rainford’s predicament is compared to a picture|10. |
|his operations, clearly, must take place within that | |framed by water, not wood. | |
|frame.” (26) | | | |
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|11. “An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a |11. |11. night like a wounded snake |11. |
|wounded snake.” (26) | | | |
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|12. “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down |12. |12. Rainsford like a panther |12. |
|like a panther.” (26-28) | | | |
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|13. “He lived a year in a minute.” (29) |13. |13. One minute can’t be a year long. |13. |
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|14. “Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and |14. |14. The sea rumbled and hissed. |14. |
|hissed.” (30) | | | |
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