Fences - Act 1 - Literary Elements

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Colored folks living down there on the riverbanks in whatever kind of shelter they could find for themselves. Right down there under the Brady Street Bridge. Living in shacks made of sticks and tarpaper".

• Allusion

• Characterization

• Imagery

• Irony

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "What my turn come to head out, I was fourteen and got to sniffing around Joe Canewell's daughter. Had us an old mule we called Greyboy. Daddy sent me out to do some plowing and I tied up Greyboy and went to fooling around with Joe Canewell's daughter."

• Metaphor

• Setting

• Flashback

• Irony

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Been fighting with them people about driving and ain't even got a license."

• Irony

• Setting

• Flashback

• Allusion

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "It's Friday. Two weeks later."

• Simile

• Setting

• Characterization

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "You all line up at the door with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets."

• Setting

• Characterization

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Death standing there grinning at me."

• Characterization

• Hyperbole

• Setting

• Personification

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner."

• Metaphor

• Setting

• Characterization

• Personification

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "I saw Josh Gibson's daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet."

• Simile

• Irony

• Allusion

• Personification

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Got them great big old legs and hips as wide as the Mississippi River."

• Characterization

• Irony

• Allusion

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary element used in this quote: "Troy is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar, though he is capable of rising to profound heights of expression."

• Characterization

• Setting

• Allusion

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3