Lesson11–SilentSpring.pptVIP

Lesson 11 – Silent Spring Writing Devices The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. (1) metaphor: a figure of speech containing an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another. Metaphor More examples To be continued on the next page. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring Writing Devices Metaphor: more examples In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a background of pines. (1) The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants were pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. (2) Metaphor is used to heighten effect and clarity. To be continued on the next page. Metaphor used together with alliteration stressing the striking display of colors Lesson 11 – Silent Spring Writing Devices On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; … (4) Metaphor: more examples The end of Metaphor. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring Writing Devices Parallelism These chemicals are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes, killing every insect, the “good” and the “bad”, to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil… (16) Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. (11) Parallelism involves balancing the structural elements of a sentence. Clear and effective The end of Writing Devices. Lesson 11 – Silent Spring Sentence Paraphrase 1 The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature. (13) Parallel structure: introduced by correlative conjunctions, such as either…or, both…and, not only…but also, whether…o