Juxtaposition Check for Understanding

Juxtaposition is...

• The figurative comparison between two unlike things

• Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast

• A position on the football field

• What readers do when they compare and contrast

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Consider the following idiom: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Why is this also a juxtaposition example?

• In this case, dogs are being personified as able to learn tricks

• The reverse psychology of this proverb implies that you can indeed learn new things when you’ve gotten older.

• The contrast between old and new demonstrates the difficulty of learning new things at an old age or after getting stuck in one’s ways.

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How is juxtaposition different from metaphor?

• A metaphor figuratively compares two unlike things; juxtaposition can be literal, and emphasizes contrast

• Juxtaposition figuratively compares two unlike things; metaphor can be literal, and emphasizes contrast

• Metaphor is sometimes meant to be taken literally; juxtaposition is never meant to be taken literally

• They are actually the same thing

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Why is this an example of juxtaposition?

• Because it shows foods that all belong in a freezer

• Because there is a figurative comparison between ice cream and lean cuisine

• Because the presence of the ice cream next to the lean cuisine emphasizes the contrast in this diet

• Because we all scream for ice cream!

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True or false: juxtaposition always should be read figuratively

• True

• False

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Which of these is NOT an example of juxtaposition:

• "I'm gonna try for an uptown girl

  She's been living in her white bread world

  As long as anyone with hot blood can

  And now she's looking for a downtown man

  That's what I am"

• “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

• "He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!"

• "Along the roads, laurels, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire."

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What two things are consistently juxtaposed in Streetcar?

• Stanley is juxtaposed with an animal

• Blanche and Stella's old life at Belle Reve is juxtaposed with their new life in the New Orleans apartment

• Blanche is juxtaposed with Belle Reve

• All of these

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In this example from page 21 of Streetcar, what two things are being juxtaposed?: Blanche: You just came home in time for the funerals, stella. And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths--not always. Sometimes their breathing is horse, and sometimes it rattles, and sometimes they even cry out, 'Don't let me go!' But funerals are quiet, with pretty flowers. And oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in!"

Note: explain the effect/ purpose of this juxtaposition on your classwork where it says "reflection" (you have 5 minutes)!

• Coffins are juxtaposed with dying people

• Blanche is juxtaposed with Stella

• Breathing is being juxtaposed with dying people

• Deaths are being juxtaposed with funerals

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In this example on page 5 of Streetcar, when Blanche first enters the scene, what two things are being juxtaposed, and to what effect?

"Blanche comes around the corner, carrying a valise. She looks at a slip of paper, then at the building, then again at the slip and again at the building. Her expression is one of shocked disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party"

• Blanche's expression is being juxtaposed with her outfit to emphasize her excitement.

• Blanche's appearance is being juxtaposed with the setting of Stella's apartment to emphasize her wealthy upbringing and foreshadow a conflict.

• Blanche's outfit is being juxtaposed with her valise (suitcase) to show how long she is planning to stay with Stella.

• Blanche's "fluffy bodice" is being juxtaposed with her necklace to highlight how well she can fit in anywhere.

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