Thursday, November 19, 2009

Figurative Language:

What examples of figurative language and sound effects can you find in the book? List them in quotation marks with the page number and state the type.

8 comments:

  1. "Soul-shredding sobs and groans clawed to the surface form the core of his being." - This is an example of Personification...I think.

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  2. "But like her name, she wafted about like a playful eddying wind, and he never quite knew which way she was blowing." -simile page 136

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  3. "...Mack watched his feet rise up in front of him as if jerked up by some jungle trap." page 5 Simile

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  4. ""... maybe in the shack freezing to death"" page 105 hyperbole
    "... extricate himself from the mud but got sucked deeper into its grasp" page 116 personification

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  5. "Lies are a little fortress…" Page 189. Metaphor.

    "The plot looked like a wound in the garden" Page 133. Simile.

    "the melody absolutely captured him…" Personification. Page 110.

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  6. "I find myself struggling to grasp the concepts spilling out like a tumbling river of gemstones." page 12 simile

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  7. "...the images continued to pound him, like relentless waves on a rocky shore.." page 51 simile

    "The kids, startled awake by the clatter and under-the-breath expletives" Pg. 35 hyperbole

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