NCHS AP English Language

QUESTION NUMBER 8 BY CAILIN LOYD

8. CHapter 48- FIND 5 TROPES.


"It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;—all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood;—all this was thrilling."

1. "on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two" - This is a trope of a cut, or knife being compared to the sharp waves.
2. "profound dip into the watery glens and hollows"- This compares the dip in the waves to the glens and hollows on land.
3. "with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood" This is a trope for teh Pequod being liek a mother hen gathering her group, as the Pequod is gatherine the waves up in the sea.
4. "they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green" This compares the gunwales on teh ship to the gigantic bowls on a bowling green.
5. "the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side" This compares the riding of the waves by the ship to the climbing of a hill, going up one side and smoothly down the other.


BY CAILIN LOYD

tropes are figures of speech and you needed to identify them as such. 3/5

posted by Lisa @ 10:05 AM