“Fever Dream” By: Ray Bradbury p. 294 “He felt his left eye clench in upon itself and, like a snail, withdraw, shift. He was blind in his left eye” (p. 294). This passage compares Charles’ eye to a snail. The simile works so well because an eye is like a snail (squishy and slimy) but usually your eye can’t crawl backwards out of the socket. That just helps us imagine how gross and painful it must have been when Charles’ body was overcome by the disease. No wonder Charles was scared! It even makes it seem that his eye has a mind of its own; it’s no longer under the control of Charles.
Alex C. 2a "The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner" By: Walter Dean Myers p.43 "For Catfish Grims himself came out of that little place and he was naked as a Jaybird" (p.43) This passage is saying two things about Catfish Grims that he is as naked as a jay bird. This is a simile because a similie uses "like" or "as" but in this case it uses as because as I said earlier it is comparing Catfish Grims to a Jay bird. Walter Dean Myers did good at using this simile because it would just be ordinary by saying he came out the house naked but he took it to another level by saying he came out the house naked as a Jay bird in my mind I picture him being fully naked without nothing on. It was very good
omething wicked this way comes:By Ray Bradbury.Pg#107 literary technique : Personification. Passage : The huge banners out front rumbled and lashed as arc lights flushed over them. Response : This technique is personification because banners can not lash because banners can not speak nor hit angrily unlike a person which can so therefore to lash is a human characteristic. =)
"The Super Naturalist" By: Eoin Colfer "Mona and Stefan were crouched by the lip of the Stromberg Building" (p.71). This passage is a metaphor, because a building can not control a person and make them crouch.
"The River Btween Us" By:Richard Peack. pg#55 literary technique:Simile "Oh,I babble like a brook and flowed like freshet.At least I didnt tell her how many seasons had passed since we'd seen hide or hair of paw." Response:when it says "I babble like a brook." The boy is trying not to tell the girl something so talks in circles and trying to avoid the subject.And when it says "flowed like freshet" it means he keep talking not taking a breath just trying to throw her off.
literary luminary: simile page: 260 passage:"his skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterdays hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny dimonds were embeded in the surface.
response: In this passage the author uses a simile to describe the way edwards skin sparkles. I like this simile because if it wasnt desribed in this way, a reader might not be able to fully understandwhat his skin really looked like. The simile is also a good comparison, because if it wasnt included a reader might be confused as to how his skin shined at so many angles.
The Boy Who Lost His Face By: Louis Sachar Page #:4
The Quote on page 4 says “I can smell her from here,” said Scott, holding his nose. “She smells like a pig!’’ This quote’s technique is a simile. This quote makes the writing better by the author just could’ve said she stinks or smell bad. It was elaborated by saying that she “smell like a pig“. When the author said that, it’s automatically telling you how she smelled, and gave you an illustration in your head, of how an pig smells. A simile is a figurative language drawing comparison: a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as.(Definition Copied From Encarta ® World English Dictionary), and the author clearly does that.
Literary Luminary “New Moon” by: Stephanie Meyer Page # 422 Passage: “And you take her to them like a bottle of wine for a party!” he shouted.”
Response: This is a simile, Jacob is arguing with Alice about how taking Bella with her to a place filled with vampires would be like taking a bottle of wine to a party. It proves his point on weather or not Bella should stay, at home or go with Alice to save Edward.
“The first thing I noticed was his hair-his beautiful hair was all gone, cropped quite short, covering head with an inky gloss like black satin.” (pg: 262)
This passage compares Jacobs black hair to black satin. The simile works well because his hair was long and black before but now has an inky gloss like black satin. It shows us how it made him look so different to Bella. It showed us how much he had changed sense he had started hanging with Sam Uley. I could see why Bella was freaking when she saw how much her best friend was changing right in front of her.
Passage: “I must have been outa my mind to ask for it. I think I’m a little soused.”
Response: In this passage, Hinton uses a dialect technique. Instead of the proper “out of” he uses “outa” to show how people of such a gang actually spoke; with slang instead of etiquette or formality. Hinton also uses the word “soused” which is slang for highly intoxicated. This technique is definitely effective in that it gives a more realistic telling of this story and it’s setting of the past. It also creates the willing suspension of disbelief for the reader. If he were to take out the use of dialect, I’m not sure that I would find the character’s as appealing or comprehensible. For me, “The Outsiders” wouldn’t be as good a read.
"You're as white as a ghost-no you're as white as me! (pg.281) This passage explains the physical appearance of Bella after riding on the back of Edward through the forest. This is a good simile because it makes me picture Edward being very pale because he is a vampire. Then you have Bella who is human and has color on her skin and makes me see how all the color just flushed from her. When Edward says "you're as white as me" it shows that Edward is already pale and white and has no color to him.
“The raven cried again. The sound made the hair on my arms and the back of my neck stand up. Nala growled low in her throat and hissed again. Wings fluttered all around me, so close, I could feel cold wind they were displacing. I smelled them then. They reeked of old meat and pus. A scent that was deadly, sickeningly sweet. I tasted the bile of fear in the back of my throat. More croaking caws filled the night. And now I could see the darkness within the darkness of stirring shadows.”
This passage is an example of Imagery Details. The authors use all five senses; sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste; to describe what is going on. Zoey is the main character and narrator in the House of Night novels. Nala, Zoey’s grumpy cat, knows something is coming for Zoey she gets protective of her. The raven is the symbol used for the danger coming. You really wouldn’t understand what is happening to Zoey if the authors didn’t use this technique. Without the imagery details you wouldn’t know what the raven’s croak made Zoey feel like.
“Twilight” By: Stephenie Meyer pg19 “They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine. Or painted by an old master as the faces of an angel.” This is a metaphor comparing Edward and his family’s faces to an airbrushed magazine or a painting of an angel. This helps you picture it better and helps make it more real to the reader. This also makes it more captivating and makes you want to keep reading the book.You can almost put yourself in Bella’s place.
The Green Glass Sea By: Ellen Klages Pages: 318 Literary Luminary: Pg# 20 Personification Passage: “The cloth-covered speaker of the big radio pops and hissed…”
Response: The literary technique being used is personification. It is giving the radio human characteristics like hissing which is a form of speaking and radios cannot speak. It makes the writing better by it makes in refreshing and new.
Revenge of the Wannabes by; Lisi Harrison Page #; 22 Literary Luminary; Imagery
Passage; “Massie adjusted the thick black leather belt so it hung perfectly around her emerald green drop-waist jersey dress.”
Response; this passage really helped me better to visualize what her outfit was then for her to just say that she had on a nice outfit. This displayed good imagery details for me because I could imagine to myself on how she looked then. I liked how she was so precise with the colors and where everything was placed. It made the writing exciting because it sounded better to be more specific with it because if it was plain then I wouldn’t want to read it. I would think that it was boring.
Sweet Revenge Nora Roberts Pg- 360 Passage- “She glanced as he did at the symbols she’d shed, the abaya, the scarf, and the veil.” Response-The literary technique used in this passage is a metaphor. It is saying that simple objects are symbols. They are symbols because in Jaquir, Adrianne’s birthplace, the women clothe themselves heavily, covering all but their eyes normally. For Adrianne, it is a symbol of the chains that her father had wrapped so tightly around her. It is a symbol of the misery she had encountered in Jaquir in her earlier childhood years, and it is a symbol of the freedom waiting for her in America.
“New Moon “by: Stephanie Meyer Pg#5 Passage: “Edward-- still smiling so beautifully that my heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest--put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.” Response: Well, this was a simile. While the term “like” was used it was easy for me to figure it out. Alice compared it to how she felt about Edward and his smile, and I think this just shows how deeply she has fallen for him and how much she needs him and loves his laugh& touch.
damien bailey 2a narnia; the silver chair Passage- "level turf, darting birds with yellow, or dragonfly blue, or rainbow plumage, blue shadows, and emptiness. There was not a breath of wind in that cool, bright air. It was a very lonely forest". responce- This passage shows imagery by describing this part of the story in a deep illustration of the food. Also it makes you crave the food that he is illuminating in the story. He emphasizes that it is the first time they see the castle. The author was trying to make it seem as stupendous as possible so that he could make the prince seem much cherished to Narnia.
"It was never about a hotdog and a coke"by:RodneyL.Hurst pg.67 Literacy technique:alliteration Passage:The boomerangs made their way through the crowd of hate mongers and constrution morkers,and immediately stood behind parker....Several of the boomerangs physically picked him up off the lunch conter seat and eventually persuaded him. Response:This is a good example of alliteration because it has two p words back to back and another p word seven words later. Alliteration makes the story better because seeing all of the words with the same first letter back to back in my opion it makes the story more interesting.
Title: Burning Up Author: Caroline B. Cooney Pgs: 16-17
Passage: He spotted Macey. In the path of several flashlights ,she looked strange and shadowed. He could see only half of her, as if she had been cut vertically, like a paper doll. She too wore a canvas jacket unzipped, and it flailed in the wind, and her hair went spinning over her eyes. He drifted over to her, because they were the only people under forty.
Response: It’s a simile because Macey is being compared to a paper doll how he can only see half of her like she had been cut vertically. This makes the reader have a better image of what he is seeing. Austin can only see half of her because they’re at a bonfire so the light from the fire is only reflecting on part of her.
Nick Curry "Skeleton" By: Ray Bradbury Passage: “M. Munigant’s hand tapped, rattled, whispered, scratched, at faint nebulae of flesh hung ghosts of cranium, spinal cord, pelvis, lime, calcium, narrow, here, there, this, that, these, those and others! Look!”
Response: In this passage, Mr. Harris was using alliteration because he is exaggerating the point that his patient M. Munigant’s hand was doing so much stuff and something is wrong with his hand.
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“Fever Dream” By: Ray Bradbury p. 294
“He felt his left eye clench in upon itself and, like a snail, withdraw, shift. He was blind in his left eye” (p. 294).
This passage compares Charles’ eye to a snail. The simile works so well because an eye is like a snail (squishy and slimy) but usually your eye can’t crawl backwards out of the socket. That just helps us imagine how gross and painful it must have been when Charles’ body was overcome by the disease. No wonder Charles was scared! It even makes it seem that his eye has a mind of its own; it’s no longer under the control of Charles.
Alex C. 2a
"The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner" By: Walter Dean Myers p.43
"For Catfish Grims himself came out of that little place and he was naked as a Jaybird" (p.43)
This passage is saying two things about Catfish Grims that he is as naked as a jay bird. This is a simile because a similie uses "like" or "as" but in this case it uses as because as I said earlier it is comparing Catfish Grims to a Jay bird. Walter Dean Myers did good at using this simile because it would just be ordinary by saying he came out the house naked but he took it to another level by saying he came out the house naked as a Jay bird in my mind I picture him being fully naked without nothing on. It was very good
omething wicked this way comes:By Ray Bradbury.Pg#107 literary technique : Personification. Passage : The huge banners out front rumbled and lashed as arc lights flushed over them. Response : This technique is personification because banners can not lash because banners can not speak nor hit angrily unlike a person which can so therefore to lash is a human characteristic. =)
"The Super Naturalist" By: Eoin Colfer
"Mona and Stefan were crouched by the lip of the Stromberg Building" (p.71).
This passage is a metaphor, because a building can not control a person and make them crouch.
"The River Btween Us" By:Richard Peack. pg#55 literary technique:Simile
"Oh,I babble like a brook and flowed like freshet.At least I didnt tell her how many seasons had passed since we'd seen hide or hair of paw."
Response:when it says "I babble like a brook." The boy is trying not to tell the girl something so talks in circles and trying to avoid the subject.And when it says "flowed like freshet" it means he keep talking not taking a breath just trying to throw her off.
title: Twilight author: Stephanie meyer page: 260
literary luminary: simile page: 260
passage:"his skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterdays hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny dimonds were embeded in the surface.
response: In this passage the author uses a simile to describe the way edwards skin sparkles. I like this simile because if it wasnt desribed in this way, a reader might not be able to fully understandwhat his skin really looked like. The simile is also a good comparison, because if it wasnt included a reader might be confused as to how his skin shined at so many angles.
The Boy Who Lost His Face
By: Louis Sachar
Page #:4
The Quote on page 4 says “I can smell her from here,” said Scott, holding his nose. “She smells like a pig!’’ This quote’s technique is a simile. This quote makes the writing better by the author just could’ve said she stinks or smell bad. It was elaborated by saying that she “smell like a pig“. When the author said that, it’s automatically telling you how she smelled, and gave you an illustration in your head, of how an pig smells. A simile is a figurative language drawing comparison: a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as.(Definition Copied From Encarta ® World English Dictionary), and the author clearly does that.
Literary Luminary
“New Moon” by: Stephanie Meyer
Page # 422
Passage: “And you take her to them like a bottle of wine for a party!” he shouted.”
Response: This is a simile, Jacob is arguing with Alice about how taking Bella with her to a place filled with vampires would be like taking a bottle of wine to a party. It proves his point on weather or not Bella should stay, at home or go with Alice to save Edward.
“New Moon” by: Stephenie Meyer pg: 262
“The first thing I noticed was his hair-his beautiful hair was all gone, cropped quite short, covering head with an inky gloss like black satin.” (pg: 262)
This passage compares Jacobs black hair to black satin. The simile works well because his hair was long and black before but now has an inky gloss like black satin. It shows us how it made him look so different to Bella. It showed us how much he had changed sense he had started hanging with Sam Uley. I could see why Bella was freaking when she saw how much her best friend was changing right in front of her.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, page 43
Passage: “I must have been outa my mind to ask for it. I think I’m a little soused.”
Response: In this passage, Hinton uses a dialect technique. Instead of the proper “out of” he uses “outa” to show how people of such a gang actually spoke; with slang instead of etiquette or formality. Hinton also uses the word “soused” which is slang for highly intoxicated. This technique is definitely effective in that it gives a more realistic telling of this story and it’s setting of the past. It also creates the willing suspension of disbelief for the reader. If he were to take out the use of dialect, I’m not sure that I would find the character’s as appealing or comprehensible. For me, “The Outsiders” wouldn’t be as good a read.
"Twilight "by Stephanie Meyer (pg.281)
"You're as white as a ghost-no you're as white as me!
(pg.281)
This passage explains the physical appearance of Bella after riding on the back of Edward through the forest. This is a good simile because it makes me picture Edward being very pale because he is a vampire. Then you have Bella who is human and has color on her skin and makes me see how all the color just flushed from her. When Edward says "you're as white as me" it shows that Edward is already pale and white and has no color to him.
Untamed By: P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast, page 246
(Bear with me, I know it’s long)
“The raven cried again. The sound made the hair on my arms and the back of my neck stand up. Nala growled low in her throat and hissed again. Wings fluttered all around me, so close, I could feel cold wind they were displacing. I smelled them then. They reeked of old meat and pus. A scent that was deadly, sickeningly sweet. I tasted the bile of fear in the back of my throat. More croaking caws filled the night. And now I could see the darkness within the darkness of stirring shadows.”
This passage is an example of Imagery Details. The authors use all five senses; sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste; to describe what is going on. Zoey is the main character and narrator in the House of Night novels. Nala, Zoey’s grumpy cat, knows something is coming for Zoey she gets protective of her. The raven is the symbol used for the danger coming. You really wouldn’t understand what is happening to Zoey if the authors didn’t use this technique. Without the imagery details you wouldn’t know what the raven’s croak made Zoey feel like.
“Twilight” By: Stephenie Meyer pg19
“They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine. Or painted by an old master as the faces of an angel.”
This is a metaphor comparing Edward and his family’s faces to an airbrushed magazine or a painting of an angel. This helps you picture it better and helps make it more real to the reader. This also makes it more captivating and makes you want to keep reading the book.You can almost put yourself in Bella’s place.
The Green Glass Sea
By: Ellen Klages
Pages: 318
Literary Luminary: Pg# 20
Personification
Passage: “The cloth-covered speaker of the big radio pops and hissed…”
Response: The literary technique being used is personification. It is giving the radio human characteristics like hissing which is a form of speaking and radios cannot speak. It makes the writing better by it makes in refreshing and new.
Revenge of the Wannabes
by; Lisi Harrison Page #; 22
Literary Luminary; Imagery
Passage; “Massie adjusted the thick black leather belt so it hung perfectly around her emerald green drop-waist jersey dress.”
Response; this passage really helped me better to visualize what her outfit was then for her to just say that she had on a nice outfit. This displayed good imagery details for me because I could imagine to myself on how she looked then. I liked how she was so precise with the colors and where everything was placed. It made the writing exciting because it sounded better to be more specific with it because if it was plain then I wouldn’t want to read it. I would think that it was boring.
Sweet Revenge
Nora Roberts
Pg- 360
Passage- “She glanced as he did at the symbols she’d shed, the abaya, the scarf, and the veil.”
Response-The literary technique used in this passage is a metaphor. It is saying that simple objects are symbols. They are symbols because in Jaquir, Adrianne’s birthplace, the women clothe themselves heavily, covering all but their eyes normally. For Adrianne, it is a symbol of the chains that her father had wrapped so tightly around her. It is a symbol of the misery she had encountered in Jaquir in her earlier childhood years, and it is a symbol of the freedom waiting for her in America.
“New Moon “by: Stephanie Meyer
Pg#5
Passage: “Edward-- still smiling so beautifully that my heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest--put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.”
Response: Well, this was a simile. While the term “like” was used it was easy for me to figure it out. Alice compared it to how she felt about Edward and his smile, and I think this just shows how deeply she has fallen for him and how much she needs him and loves his laugh& touch.
damien bailey 2a
narnia; the silver chair
Passage- "level turf, darting birds with yellow, or dragonfly blue, or rainbow plumage, blue shadows, and emptiness. There was not a breath of wind in that cool, bright air. It was a very lonely forest".
responce- This passage shows imagery by describing this part of the story in a deep illustration of the food. Also it makes you crave the food that he is illuminating in the story. He emphasizes that it is the first time they see the castle. The author was trying to make it seem as stupendous as possible so that he could make the prince seem much cherished to Narnia.
"It was never about a hotdog and a coke"by:RodneyL.Hurst pg.67
Literacy technique:alliteration
Passage:The boomerangs made their way through the crowd of hate mongers and constrution morkers,and immediately stood behind parker....Several of the boomerangs physically picked him up off the lunch conter seat and eventually persuaded him.
Response:This is a good example of alliteration because it has two p words back to back and another p word seven words later. Alliteration makes the story better because seeing all of the words with the same first letter back to back in my opion it makes the story more interesting.
Title: Burning Up
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Pgs: 16-17
Passage: He spotted Macey. In the path of several flashlights ,she looked strange and shadowed. He could see only half of her, as if she had been cut vertically, like a paper doll. She too wore a canvas jacket unzipped, and it flailed in the wind, and her hair went spinning over her eyes. He drifted over to her, because they were the only people under forty.
Response: It’s a simile because Macey is being compared to a paper doll how he can only see half of her like she had been cut vertically. This makes the reader have a better image of what he is seeing. Austin can only see half of her because they’re at a bonfire so the light from the fire is only reflecting on part of her.
Nick Curry
"Skeleton" By: Ray Bradbury
Passage: “M. Munigant’s hand tapped, rattled, whispered, scratched, at faint nebulae of flesh hung ghosts of cranium, spinal cord, pelvis, lime, calcium, narrow, here, there, this, that, these, those and others! Look!”
Response: In this passage, Mr. Harris was using alliteration because he is exaggerating the point that his patient M. Munigant’s hand was doing so much stuff and something is wrong with his hand.
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