Figurative Language in "Half Hanged Mary"

"I didn't feel the aimed word hit and go in like a soft bullet."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• allusion

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"I might rub off on you like soot or gossip."

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Rumour was loose in the air, hunting for some neck to land on."

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"The bonnets come to stare, the dark skirts also, the upturned faces in between, mouths closed so tight they're lipless."

• simile

• metaphor

• metonymy

• irony

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"With time they'd have thought of axes."

• simile

• hyperbole

• symbol

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Well Good, now that I'm up here, with maybe some time to kill, away from the daily fingerwork, legwork, work at the hen level"

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the 12 midnight section, Mary fights against this.

• being released

• death

• the men who are watching over her

• the angels who come to save her

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

Mary struggles through the night but when the 8 am hour arrives what do the men find when they come to cut her down?

• They find a young man taking care of Mary's wounds.

• Mary is still alive and if they did not believe that she was a witch, they are now convinced she is.

• The woman of the town are gathered around helping Mary.

• The men find that she has passed in the night.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

In the 10pm hour, who is Mary conversing with? What is the tone of this conversation?

• She is talking to God. She is being contrite for her actions.

• Mary is explaining to a gentleman why her clothes are tattered.The tone is conversational.

• Mary is speak to the wind. The tone is wishful as she asks for forgiveness.

• She is talking to God. The tone is inquisitive as she asks God why she is being hanged.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

In the 8pm section, there is a metaphor: "Up I go like a windfall in reverse". What do these words mean?

• Mary was hoisted up the tree which is the opposite of leaves falling to the ground.

• Mary was stuck to the tree.

• She was falling out of the tree.

• She held onto a branch of the tree as the men hoisted her up.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4