"Justice is blind."

"Her heart skipped a beat."

"The sun smiled down on them."

"The party died down."

"The car sputtered and coughed before starting."

"Strong as an ox"

"Bright as the sun"

"White as a sheet"

"His heart was as cold as ice"

"Sleeping like a log"

"Fast as lightning"

"ROMEO: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." (Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt)

"The suitcase weighed a ton."

"I’m so angry, I could kill him!"

"I’ve asked you not to do that a thousand times."

"The shot heard round the world."

"The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth."

"The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward."

"The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold."

"After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic."

"The tree bark was rough against her skin."

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

"She sells seashells by the seashore."

"A big black bug bit a big black dog and the big black dog bled blood."

"Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said, this butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better."

Honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing

Boom, crash, whack, thump, bang

Shush, giggle, growl, whine, murmur, blurt, whisper, hiss

Splash, drip, spray, whoosh, buzz, rustle

"You have brains in your head; you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not."

"And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)."

I’ve known rivers:

I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream... I have a dream that one day in Alabama...

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad." -To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"I couldn’t forgive [Tom] or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." -The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison." -The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Descriptions of laughter, upbeat song, delicious smells, and bright colors; fills the reader with joy and happiness.

Silly and sometimes ridiculous. Characters will do and say odd or funny things. This mood can be used to alleviate a somber or dangerous situation or to ridicule or satirize a situation.

Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice uses this mood and absurd characters to take a comical look at love, reputation, and class.

This is a calm and peaceful feeling, and the mood can sometimes be created by describing a natural setting, like in the countryside.

Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers: "The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”

A chaotic mood where random things happen, characters may feel out of control, and there seems to be no reason for what is happening.

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat": The reason the narrator gives for wanting to kill his beloved cat is that, "I fancied that the cat was avoiding my presence... The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer." Obviously, he has no justified rationale.

This mood is described as pensive and sad.

"The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot:

"The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys."

In this mood, things are hidden and puzzling. The reader really doesn't know what is going on, at least not for a while.

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven":

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"

The setting needs to be beautiful, bright and carefree. This can be a candlelit dinner, a picnic on a beach, or sailing into the sunset. This mood can also be set by emotive words spoken by the characters.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: "Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you."

You should feel the amount of love one character is expressing to the other.

Which of the following is NOT a definition of theme?

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Dreams can come true."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Be kind to everyone."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Be true to yourself.

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "True love conquers all."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Hard work pays off."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "If you work hard, you will always succeed."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Good defeats evil."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Don't ever poke a sleeping bear."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "Making the same mistakes as Lennie will lead to bad outcomes."

Is the following a skillfully constructed theme? "There is nothing to fear except fear itself." -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Themes can be directly stated in a text.

Which of the following is a theme?

Themes found in a variety of works are known as...

Themes that deal with basic human concerns and are found time and again in literature are...

The speaker's attitude toward the subject is...

The way the text impacts the reader is the...