"One Friday Morning"

"One Friday Morning"

Figurative Language, Imagery, and Symbolism

Directions

Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

Multiple Choice

Identify the imagery present:

"...had taken part in the senior musical in a soft, velvety voice, and had never seemed to intrude or stand out,..."

• sight

• sound

• touch

• smell

Multiple Choice

Identify the imagery present:

"..but an idea and a smooth square of linoleum, inked, proofs made, and finally put down on paper..."

• sight

• sound

• touch

• smell

What did the stars on the American flag symbolize for Nancy Lee Johnson?

Multiple Choice

What did the stars on the American flag symbolize for Nancy Lee Johnson and Miss O'Shay?

• it was time to say the Pledge of Allegiance

• the promise that the art committee will change its mind

• the number of states in the U.S.

• hope and opportunity for all people

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• "It's charm was that everything was light and airy, happy like spring, with a lot of blue sky..."

• "...the best water color she had painted in her four years a high-school art student,..."

• "Miss Dietrich had taught Nancy Lee how to paint spring, people, and a breeze on what was only a plain white piece of paper from the supply closet."

• "One wet, rainy April afternoon Miss O'Shay, the girls' vice principal, sent for Nancy Lee to stop by her office as school closed."

Multiple Choice

What two writing techniques are present in the following quote:

"...and that the flag was proud in the spring breeze, and that the breeze helped to make the children's dresses billow as they played."

• metaphor and sound imagery

• simile and sight imagery

• personification and sight imagery

• personification and sound imagery

"It was just a simple scene in the city park on a spring day..."

Multiple Choice

What are the mountains in the following metaphor symbolic for?

"..we believed in the American dream, and in our power to make that dream come true. Difficulties, yes. Mountains to climb, yes. Discouragements to face, yes. Democracy to make, yes."

• mountains are just mountains

• a physical challenge to beat

• towering piles of paper work that must be completed

• huge obstacles blocking the achievement of goals

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has sight imagery?

• "Pupils without umbrellas or raincoats were clustered in doorways hoping to make it home between showers."

• "That was the wonderful thing about true creation. You made something nobody else on earth could make--but you."

• "Still, Joe Williams got the prize, was feted by the community's leading painters, club women, and society folk..."

• "Or maybe she was failing in some subject and wouldn't be allowed to graduate. Chemistry! A pang went through the pit of her stomach."

Multiple Choice

What imagery is present in the following:

"At that point there was a light knock on the door."

• sight

• touch

• sound

• smell

"Dreams began to dance through her head, plans and ambitions, beauties she would create for herself, her parents, and the Negro people..."

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is present in the following:

"Dreams began to dance through her head, plans and ambitions, beauties she would create for herself, her parents, and the Negro people..."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Multiple Choice

"All those who stand against ignorance, narrowness, hate, and mud on stars must be like that."

What does "mud on stars" symbolize?

• it is a very dirty American flag

• due to racism, many people are denied equal opportunity

• they didn't have a washing machine so must be poor

• all dreams are gone because the "mud" makes it impossible to see them

"...hundreds of pupils streaming into the long, rambling old building that was the city's largest high school; the sudden quiet of the homeroom after the bell rang;"

Multiple Choice

Which two imagery are present in the following quote?

"...hundreds of pupils streaming into the long, rambling old building that was the city's largest high school; the sudden quiet of the homeroom after the bell rang;"

• sound and touch

• sight and touch

• sight and sound

• smell and sight

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has sound imagery?

• "Outside in the hall the electric bells announcing the first period rang, loud and interminable long."

• "Her clear blue eyes looked into those of the girl before her."

• "Miss O'Shay stood against the open window with the green lawn and the tulips beyond, the sunlight tangled in her grey hair,..."

• "As the principal came onto the platform, the students rose and turned their eyes to the flag on the stage."

Multiple Choice

"...for in her mind the flag, the spring, and the woman formed a kind of triangle holding a dream Nancy Lee wanted to express. White stars on a blue field, spring, children, ever-growing life, and an old woman."

What does this "triangle" Nancy Lee envisioned symbolize?

• It's just a picture of spring in the park.

• America and the hardships that are blocking the way for equality

• dreams, hope for a better future, it's her grandmother

• purity, new beginnings with open possibilities, life