This document provides a viewing guide and questions for analyzing the elements of suspense in the tele-play "The Hitchhiker". It includes definitions and examples of different types of figurative language to look for like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, hyperbole, imagery and idioms. The questions prompt the reader to look for how dialogue and multiple meanings of words contribute to mood, what various characters reveal, what the hitchhiker may represent and how the play leaves Adams and the reader in suspense.
This document provides a viewing guide and questions for analyzing the elements of suspense in the tele-play "The Hitchhiker". It includes definitions and examples of different types of figurative language to look for like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, hyperbole, imagery and idioms. The questions prompt the reader to look for how dialogue and multiple meanings of words contribute to mood, what various characters reveal, what the hitchhiker may represent and how the play leaves Adams and the reader in suspense.
This document provides a viewing guide and questions for analyzing the elements of suspense in the tele-play "The Hitchhiker". It includes definitions and examples of different types of figurative language to look for like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, hyperbole, imagery and idioms. The questions prompt the reader to look for how dialogue and multiple meanings of words contribute to mood, what various characters reveal, what the hitchhiker may represent and how the play leaves Adams and the reader in suspense.
This document provides a viewing guide and questions for analyzing the elements of suspense in the tele-play "The Hitchhiker". It includes definitions and examples of different types of figurative language to look for like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, hyperbole, imagery and idioms. The questions prompt the reader to look for how dialogue and multiple meanings of words contribute to mood, what various characters reveal, what the hitchhiker may represent and how the play leaves Adams and the reader in suspense.
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Name: ________________________________
Block: _______________ Date: _______
Friday, November 20 Figurative Language Review and Viewing Guide for the tele-play
**Read these notes and pay special attention to the examples.
Figurative Language Figurative language is a tool that an author uses, to help the reader visualize, or see, what is happening in a story or poem. Types of Figurative Language Simile is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two unlike objects. Example: His feet are as big as boats. Feet and boats are being compared.
Metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but does NOT use like or as to make the comparison. Example: Her hair is silk. Hair and silk are being compared.
Personification is giving human qualities, feelings,
actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects. Example: The house stared at me with looming eyes.
Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. The first letter, p, is a consonant. Its sound is repeated many times.
Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words
help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound. Example: Bong! Hiss Buzz!
Symbolism occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else. Example: The dove symbolizes peace.
Hyperbole is intentionally exaggerated figures of speech.
Example: It was raining cats and dogs.
Imagery involves one or more of your five senses – the abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see. An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses and to help create mental pictures.
Idioms An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions. Viewing Guide ***There are a few differences between the radio play and tele-play, the most obvious one that the main character is a man in the radio play and a woman in the tele-play. The message and main events are still the same.
****Please answer these questions based on what you read and what you see in the show not what you heard on the radio version.
LT: I can analyze elements of suspense in a tele-play.
As you read: •Pay attention to dialogue. See how the way people talk and what they say is contributing to the mood of the radio play. •Watch for words with multiple meanings. How can you use context to determine the meaning?
Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers
What is the effect of Orson Welle’s introduction? (Reference the text on your Anticipation Guide)
What is the tone and mood set by this
introduction?
How does the music at the beginning of the play
(both the tele-play and Twilight zone version) help set this tone?
What does Adams learn about the HItchhiker in
the scene with the mechanic? (The one at the shop, not on the side of the road.)
In what ways is Adam’s encounter with the
hitchhiker both similar to and different from her previous ones? What does seeing him again and again mean? What might the presence of the hitchhiker at a detour indicate for Nan Adams?
Why does Adams think that the hitchhiker is
beckoning her to her death?
How does the constant vision of the hitchhiker
effect Adams’ decisions?
Why is Nan so frantic when she runs out of gas?
Explain her mood and how we know that.
Once Adams’ picks up the sailor, she tries to
convince herself and him the hitchhiker is real. What is the sailor’s reaction?
What purpose do the other character’s serve in the
play? Think about the mechanic, diner worker, construction worker, gas station owner, and sailor and her interactions with each one.
Whom or what do you think the hitchhiker
represents?
What explanation do you have for the gray man,
the hitchhiker, and for what actually happened to Adams?
What does Adams learn when she calls home? Was
this outcome foreshadowed?
In a way, this play doesn't end at all, instead
Adams and the reader are kept in suspense. What do you think Adams will do after the end of the play? Use details from the play to support your answer. Figurative Language Examples After reading, listening to, and watching the play The Hitchhiker go back into the text and find as many examples of figurative language as you can. You may use the italicizied stage directions to find what you are looking for.
