You've had the opportunity to identify various types of figurative language in novels that you've read in the past. You've gotten to be an expert at identifying the use of:
Your task is to read each quote from the novel and identify the type of figurative language used by the author (you may have to use some new ones: verisimilitude and allusion). I've started you off; it's your job to finish the rest.
| Quote | Technique |
| The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses” (p. 1). | Visual imagery |
. . . his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words” (p. 3). | Simile |
“That is the germ of my great discovery” (p. 5). | |
“There was a breath of wind...” (p. 8) | |
| “Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall...he had nothing on but a pair of tattered, blood-stained socks” (p. 15). | |
| “...has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases?” (p. 15). | |
| “I told some of you Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine...” (p. 19). | |
| “I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams” (p. 21). | |
| “There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears ... A pitiless hail was hissing around me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset Machine” (pp. 22-23). | |
| “Fine hospitality...to a man who has traveled innumerable years to see you” (p. 23). | |
| “...with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious” (p. 28 ). | |
| “As I walked I was watchful for every impression that could possibly help to explain the ruinous splendor in which I found the world...” (p. 32). | |
“That is the drift of the current in spite of the eddies” (p. 35).
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| “At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world” (p. 39 ). | |
| “Then suddenly the humor of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion and anxiety to get out of it” (p. 45). | |
| “The thudding sound of a machine grew louder and more oppressive” (p. 61). | |
| “I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again, and leave the Under-world alone” (p. 61). | |
| “...almost see through it the Morlocks on their anthill going hither and thither...” (p. 69). Metaphor | |
“...it may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.—ED.” (p. 77).
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| “The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood...” (p. 83). | |
| “I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider’s web” (86) | |
| “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide” (90). | |
| “...the main expanse of that eternal ocean, all bloody under that eternal sunset.” (98). | |
“A cold that smote to the marrow, and the pain I felt in breathing, overcame me. I shivered and a deadly nausea seized
me ... I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey. As I stood, sick and confused...” (p. 99). | |
