Literary Analysis Support Sheet
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Literary Analysis Support Sheet
The Last Box
The community recycling drive had one hour left, and the hall was still crowded with cardboard boxes. Hollie rubbed her cold hands together. “We’ll never sort all this,” she said. Rory looked at the heap. It rose like a brown mountain beside the collection table. Maryam picked up a flattened cereal box and turned it over. “This one has a plastic window,” she said. “That part needs to go in a different bin.” She placed the box carefully on the table, then began checking the others. A gust rattled the hall door. For a moment, the boxes whispered and shivered as if they were nervous too. Rory grinned. “They’re cheering us on!” He folded a large box until it snapped into a neat, flat square. Hollie stopped rubbing her hands. She took a marker and wrote CARDBOARD on a fresh sign. “Right,” she said, “you check for plastic, Rory folds, and I’ll label.” The heap shrank. Soon, only one box remained: a huge, stubborn shape with tape all over it. Together, they peeled off the tape, flattened the box and carried it to the right stack. The last hour had felt like a race, but now the hall looked calm and orderly. Hollie smiled at the tidy piles. “We didn’t just clear a mess,” she said. “We made sure these materials can be used again.”
Notice the writer’s choices
Use evidence from the passage. A strong analysis explains both what a technique suggests and why it matters in this situation.
- A simile
- A metaphor
- Alliteration
- Personification
- Furthermore
- However
- Therefore
- Showing contrast
- Adding another idea
- Showing a result
- Rory uses personification to imagine the boxes encouraging the group, which adds humour and lifts the mood.
- Rory uses a simile to show that the boxes are noisy.
- Rory uses a fact to explain how cardboard is recycled.
- Rory uses alliteration to show that he is worried.
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