Interpreting Figures of Speech to Make Inferences
Reread the first section of the text again.
Use the Highlighting tool to mark any figures of speech
Raisman uses. Then answer the following questions using
the Notebook (13):
• What figures of speech does the author use?
• What can you infer based on these figures of
speech?
Fierce
by Aly Raisman (excerpt)
Chills of anticipation raced up my spine. Staring at the TV, 1
bounced up and down on the couch, so excited I could
hardly sit still. No matter how many times I watched the
tape, it felt like I was seeing it for the first time.
The crowd inside the Georgia Dome was on their feet and
already making a deafening amount of noise as the seven
American women filed into the arena to begin the 1996
Olympic gymnastics women's team final.
The excitement that greeted the US women's gymnastics
team as they marched briskly toward the uneven bars was
the most captivating thing I had ever seen. The air in the
arena was so supercharged with electricity that I could feel
it in my own living room, through the screen, six years
after the fact

make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not something someone else is writing about.

gatsby's clothes have a symbolic meaning, as the use of colour and fabric in his clothing demonstrates his hope, dreams, and wealth. gatsby's clothing symbolizes his wealth through his torn shirt, his silver and gold suit, and his english shirts.

his occupation are

businessman yachtsman soldier entrepreneur bootlegger

it means the homeless needs more

explanation:

the homeless has no food water homes ect.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.