Homework Help Forum: Literature

Posted by mysterychicken on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:08pm.

Need help with this: Write a list of meaningful modifiers and figures of speech used to describe the short story The Birds. ....Thanks -MC

• Literature - GuruBlue, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:20pm

  MC... I am sure that you can find some really nifty modifiers and similes and metaphor is that story.

  
  

• Literature - mysterychicken, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:31pm

  I need help! -MC

  
  

• Literature - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:35pm

  We'll be glad to help you, MC. Please go back through the story, line by line, and find meaningful modifiers and figures of speech. Then, we'll help you by commenting on your list and suggesting additions, if necessary.

  
  

• Literature - mysterychicken, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:48pm

  Can I get a link for meaningful modifiers? I can't find anything useful on google... -MC

  
  

• Literature - GuruBlue, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:53pm

  MC what words paint a vivid picture in your mind when you read them. Look at these two sentences. Fall leaves are bright. The leaves of fall are imitating the sun.

  
  

• Literature - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:56pm

  Meaningful modifiers include adjectives and adjectives such as: boastful, fuzzy, furry, tasty, magnificent, pastoral, faithfully, scornful, fragile, slyly, regally . . . These modifiers are boring and don't have much real meaning: good, pretty, fast, nice . . .

  
  

• Literature - mysterychicken, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:59pm

  But I'm writing about The Birds in a negative point of view, as i didn't like it at all..so what could i use to say that the plot wasn't believable at all? -MC

  
  

• Literature - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:00pm

  This assignment doesn't ask for your opinion. It asks you to find the meaningful modifiers and figures of speech. I think you're procrastinating, MC.

  
  

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