Figurative Language Worksheet
(1) Copy a passage that you find particularly beautiful or powerful. What devices (imagery, figurative language, etc.) did the author use to make an impact on the reader?
"Inside was different: a fishbowl where anything you said and did was being watched by everyone else"(210).
It is an example of a metaphor as it is a comparison of a fishbowl to a high school. The author, Jodi Picoult is implying that high school is difficult to be what you really are without someone judging. “Being different will be overstated” and could prevent your climb to the top of the social latter in school. (2) Explain how a character is behaving and why you think the character is behaving that way. Josie Cormier is one of two main characters in Nineteen Minutes …show more content…
During the court case when we find out that Josie shot Matt and Peter covered for her by actually killing Matt. Unfortunately, Peter doesn't win the trial; he is “sentenced to life in prison”. Josie does admits to what she did. She also is facing consequences. Sterling High School is re-done, it now has a statue in the front that says "A Safe Harbor", inside the school there are 10 chairs representing the 10 kids that died. The conclusion leaves us with cliffhangers. Alex and Patrick visit the school a year after the shooting; they stay there from 10:00 to 10:19 the minutes the children got killed. Nineteen Minutes is Very thought provoking, why does it matter? I had to stay focus and analyze word by word that was said to understand what was going on. In Resolution "In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or get your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge." The conclusion leaves us with cliffhangers. Alex and Patrick visit the school a year after the shooting; they stay there from 10:00 to 10:19 the minutes the children got killed. Nineteen Minutes is Very thought provoking, why does it matter? I had to stay focus and analyze word by word that was said to understand what was going
"Inside was different: a fishbowl where anything you said and did was being watched by everyone else"(210).
It is an example of a metaphor as it is a comparison of a fishbowl to a high school. The author, Jodi Picoult is implying that high school is difficult to be what you really are without someone judging. “Being different will be overstated” and could prevent your climb to the top of the social latter in school. (2) Explain how a character is behaving and why you think the character is behaving that way. Josie Cormier is one of two main characters in Nineteen Minutes …show more content…
During the court case when we find out that Josie shot Matt and Peter covered for her by actually killing Matt. Unfortunately, Peter doesn't win the trial; he is “sentenced to life in prison”. Josie does admits to what she did. She also is facing consequences. Sterling High School is re-done, it now has a statue in the front that says "A Safe Harbor", inside the school there are 10 chairs representing the 10 kids that died. The conclusion leaves us with cliffhangers. Alex and Patrick visit the school a year after the shooting; they stay there from 10:00 to 10:19 the minutes the children got killed. Nineteen Minutes is Very thought provoking, why does it matter? I had to stay focus and analyze word by word that was said to understand what was going on. In Resolution "In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or get your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge." The conclusion leaves us with cliffhangers. Alex and Patrick visit the school a year after the shooting; they stay there from 10:00 to 10:19 the minutes the children got killed. Nineteen Minutes is Very thought provoking, why does it matter? I had to stay focus and analyze word by word that was said to understand what was going