1. “The shade climbed up the hills toward the top.”(2)
Personification is used in this sentence. The shade that covers the hill is described as an action by using the phase “climbed up”, which adds vividness to expressions as we always look at this environment from a human perspective.
2. “On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.” (2)
Metaphor is used in this sentence. The rabbits are compared with gray and sculptured stones, which gives us a vivid image of what the rabbits actually look like.
3. “Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.” (2)
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The shape of the hay is compared to a mountain slope, which gives readers a vivid image of what the hay looks like.
12. “The afternoon sun sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls and lay in bright lines on the hay.” (84)
Personification is used in this sentence. The sun cannot actually sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls, it is personified to describe how the sun shines in the barn wall. By using personification, it gives readers a vivid image and makes people feel about the warm.
13. “There was the buzz of flies in the air, the lazy afternoon humming.” (84)
Onomatopoeia is used since “buzz”, “humming” appear in this sentence. These words creates a sound effect that mimics the flies described, making the description more expressive and interesting.
14. Symbol: Candy 's dog
Candy 's dog symbolizes both the relationship between George and Lennie, as both are pairs of companions in which one dies by the end of the book, but the dog also represents Candy 's uselessness to the ranch. His dog is killed for that reason, and that makes Candy think that he 's next.
15. “Take Curley. His hair is jus’ like wire. But mine is soft and fine. ’Couse I brush it a lot. That makes it fine. Here--- feel right here.” …show more content…
Candy’s dog had to be put down because it was old and in pain. Candy believed that he should have put his dog down himself instead of letting someone else put his dog down. George listens but their conversation is interrupted by Curley walking in. This quote provides slight foreshadowing that George was going to kill Lennie himself instead of letting the other men get to Lennie. The reader knows that the George thinks about what Candy says before he kills Lennie. George realizes that the he would rather put Lennie down himself rather than let the other men kill Lennie. The logic behind this was that George knew that if he didn’t put down Lennie himself then he would constantly wonder “what if”, like Candy did. George knew that Lennie had to be ended and knew that he had to do it himself. He would live forever with that guilt, but he knew that was better than living with the fact that he had not been with his friend to the bitter end.
3. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn’t drunk. I don’t know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell
Personification is used in this sentence. The shade that covers the hill is described as an action by using the phase “climbed up”, which adds vividness to expressions as we always look at this environment from a human perspective.
2. “On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.” (2)
Metaphor is used in this sentence. The rabbits are compared with gray and sculptured stones, which gives us a vivid image of what the rabbits actually look like.
3. “Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.” (2)
Metaphor …show more content…
The shape of the hay is compared to a mountain slope, which gives readers a vivid image of what the hay looks like.
12. “The afternoon sun sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls and lay in bright lines on the hay.” (84)
Personification is used in this sentence. The sun cannot actually sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls, it is personified to describe how the sun shines in the barn wall. By using personification, it gives readers a vivid image and makes people feel about the warm.
13. “There was the buzz of flies in the air, the lazy afternoon humming.” (84)
Onomatopoeia is used since “buzz”, “humming” appear in this sentence. These words creates a sound effect that mimics the flies described, making the description more expressive and interesting.
14. Symbol: Candy 's dog
Candy 's dog symbolizes both the relationship between George and Lennie, as both are pairs of companions in which one dies by the end of the book, but the dog also represents Candy 's uselessness to the ranch. His dog is killed for that reason, and that makes Candy think that he 's next.
15. “Take Curley. His hair is jus’ like wire. But mine is soft and fine. ’Couse I brush it a lot. That makes it fine. Here--- feel right here.” …show more content…
Candy’s dog had to be put down because it was old and in pain. Candy believed that he should have put his dog down himself instead of letting someone else put his dog down. George listens but their conversation is interrupted by Curley walking in. This quote provides slight foreshadowing that George was going to kill Lennie himself instead of letting the other men get to Lennie. The reader knows that the George thinks about what Candy says before he kills Lennie. George realizes that the he would rather put Lennie down himself rather than let the other men kill Lennie. The logic behind this was that George knew that if he didn’t put down Lennie himself then he would constantly wonder “what if”, like Candy did. George knew that Lennie had to be ended and knew that he had to do it himself. He would live forever with that guilt, but he knew that was better than living with the fact that he had not been with his friend to the bitter end.
3. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn’t drunk. I don’t know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell