Stephen Crane: "The Open Boat" - Figures of Speech

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• simile (comparison using like or as)
• metaphor (comparison to unlike things using is, am, are, was, were, etc.)
• personification (giving human-like qualities to something that is not human)

Question 2

in the following passage from paragraph 33 of “The Open Boat,” Crane uses what figure of speech?
The brown mats of sea-weed that appeared from time to time were like islands, bits of earth

Answer 2

simile

Question 3

in the following passage from paragraph 10 of “The Open Boat,” is an example of naturalist writing, showing
There was a terrible grace in the move of the waves, and they came in silence, save for the snarling of the crests

Answer 3

the indifference of nature to the human plight

Question 4

in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” a good example of naturalist writing - especially the seeming indifference of nature tot he human condition - is found in

Answer 4

paragraph 174

Question 5

what figure of speech does Crane use in paragraph 239 of “the open boat”?

Answer 5

personification

Question 6

in the following passage from paragraph 47 of “The Open Boat,” Crane uses what figure of speech?
Even as the light-house was an upright shadow on the sky, this land seemed but a long black shadow on the sea

Answer 6

metaphor