Match the passage to the literary technique-TTTC

“...lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world."

• simile

• metaphor

• syntax

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“Kiowa, who saw it happen, said it was like watching a rock fall.”

• metaphor

• simile

• ambiguity

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it..."

• ambiguity

• personification

• repetition

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“His face was suddenly brown and shining. A handsome kid, really. Sharp gray eyes, lean and narrow-waisted, and when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up and sucked him high into a tree full of moss and vines and white blossoms.”

• metaphor

• repetition

• ambiguity

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The title story and several others are written in first person, from the perspective of the character of Tim. Tim narrates all the stories but is not the main character in of all of them. In several stories, Tim seeks to memorialize his friends from the platoon by telling their stories, while trying to understand how his experiences in Vietnam changed him.

• repetition

• point of view

• Personification

• syntax

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

"They plodded along slowly, dumbly, leaning forward against the heat, unthinking, all blood and bone, simple grunts, soldiering with their legs, toiling up the hills and down into the paddies and across the rivers and up again and down, just humping, one step and then the next and then another, but no volition, no will, because it was automatic, it was anatomy, and the war was entirely a matter of posture and carriage, the hump was everything, a kind of inertia, a kind of emptiness, a dullness of desire and intellect and conscience and hope and human sensibility."

What effect type of effect does the syntax create in this passage?

• The pleasures of war by descriptive words

• The scattered thoughts of the men by the short sentences.

• The long, monotonous, boring marching by the syntax (commas)

• The changing of voices showing point of view shift

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"That’s how I feel. It’s like the appetite. I get scared sometime—lots of times—but its not bad.”

• personification

• syntax

• repetition

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

• ambiguity (meaning open to interpretations)

• syntax

• point of view

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”

• personification

• narration

• syntax

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of structure are the bold words starting....?

Mitchell Sanders carried a set of starched tiger fatigues for special occasions. Henry Dobbins carried Black Flag insecticide. Dave Jensen carried empty sandbags that could be filled at night for added protection. Lee Strunk carried tanning lotion.

• personification

• imagery

• parallel structure

• different narrator structure

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7