Question

directions: label the quotations below with the correct literary device. you may use some terms more than once.

1. \theyre caesars praetorian guard.\ p.82
2. \how like trying to put out fires with water pistols.\ p.106
3. \how many copies of shakespeare and plato?\ p.72
4. \she started her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house\ p.98
5. \words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.\ p.102
6. the televisor is real. it must be right. it seems so right.\ p.80
7. \the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.\ p.104
8. \the images drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic bowl of hysterical fish.\ p.90

a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. allusion
e. hyperbole
f. verbal irony
directions: use one to two complete sentences to answer the questions below. you do not need evidence.
15 explain the meaning of a metaphor from the chart above.
16 explain the meaning of a simile from the chart above.

Explanation:

1. For question 15: The metaphor in quote 13 compares the unthinking majority to "solid unmoving cattle," meaning they are passive, easily led, and do not question or challenge threats to truth and freedom, acting like docile, unthinking livestock.
2. For question 16: The simile in quote 8 ("How like trying to put out fires with water pistols") compares a futile, ineffective task to using a tiny water pistol to stop a fire, emphasizing that the attempt is completely inadequate to address the problem at hand.

Answer:

1. The metaphor in quote 13 ("the solid unmoving cattle of the majority") means the unthinking, passive majority are like docile cattle—they do not resist or question threats to truth and freedom, allowing harm to these values without pushback.
2. The simile in quote 8 ("How like trying to put out fires with water pistols") means the task being described is completely ineffective, as using a water pistol to fight a fire is a hopeless, inadequate attempt, just like the effort being referenced.