Edith Wharton: "April Showers" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• simile (comparing two things using like or as)
• metaphor (direct comparison of two unlike things, usually using some form of “to be”)
• sarcasm (purposefully using words that have the opposite meaning)

Question 2

what figure of speech does Wharton use in the following passage from paragraph 25 of april showers?
The children had never been so trying. They seemed to be always coming to pieces, like cheap furniture; one would have supposed they had been put together with bad glue

Answer 2

simile

Question 3

in paragraph 42 of april showers wharton uses words like “carrying it tenderly…like a live thing that had been hurt” and its “soiled edges” and the “ink-stain on Aunt Julia’s ribbon” to

Answer 3

contrast Theodora’s feelings about her manuscript/novel with the editors’ apparent feelings

Question 4

what figure of speech does Wharton use in the following passage from paragraph 42 of april showers?
the voice went on, like the steady pressure of a surgeon’s hand on a shrieking nerve

Answer 4

simile

Question 5

in paragraph 26 of april showers, the narrator uses what literary device in describing sophie brill’s visit

Answer 5

sarcasm

Question 6

what figure of speech does Wharton use in the following passage from paragraph 40 of april showers?
..she had barely breath to whisper the editor’s name to a young man who looked out at her from a glass case, like a zoological specimen

Answer 6

simile