“The Dwarf” By Ray Bradbury p. 283 “Ralph sat cold and waxen in his glass coffin, laying out the cards, his eyes fixed, his mouth stiff.”
This passage compares Ralph’s ticket booth to a coffin. It’s an effective use of a metaphor because it foreshadows something bad to happen (perhaps the death of Ralph or the death of the dwarf, or even the death of Ralph’s friendship with Aimee). It also makes us picture Ralph as “cold and waxen” inside the “coffin.” He’s not a warm, lovable character but a creepy one that you’d rather not meet at the end of an empty pier. Since he continues playing cards in this scene even after Aimee approaches, it helps confirm the readers’ feeling that Ralph is comfortable being the “cold” and heartless person that he is.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Author C.S. Lewis
Literary Luminary: Personification Page# 64
Passage: But this time it did not immediately draw back. Instead the animal put its paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to you to be quiet.
Response: The sentences were it says just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to you to be quiet. So that part is comparing the animal to things that humans do. It is important because in the story almost all of the animals talk and do human like things. Talking would be the only way that animals could communicate in the story because the witch causes the animals to talk because of a spell she puts on them. The talking of the animals also helps to defeat the find the lost brother Edmund.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Author: C.S. Lewis
Literary Luminar: Personification PG# 64
Passage:But this time it did not immediately draw back. Instead the animal put its paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to be quiet.
Response: The sentence were it says that the animal put his paw against his mouth to signal to be quiet just as humans it is comparing that to things that humans do. It is important because the witch puts a curse on the animals to make them do human like things. Also talking and doing humans like things would be the only two ways of communication.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By J.K. Rowling p. 335
“Another branch whipped down at them, twigs clenched like knuckles.”
In this passage the author is giving personification to the Whomping Willow (a destructive tree), by saying that the twigs on the branch cracked and clenched like knuckles. As if to punch Harry and Hermione, the Willow made a fist and thrust it at them to keep them away from passing on by it. It is like how a person would defend themselves. It is also a simile because it is comparing a person’s knuckles, to the tree’s branches and twigs. This is important because this tree is very destructive and has a purpose for being there, but now from this experience the characters figure out why.
Passage:"With turquiose eye shadow and helmet hair, she looked exactly like Miss Corrigan, Anna's hated third-grade teacher."
Response:This passage is comparing Anna’s old teacher to the flight attendant. It is important because she is the woman who is trying to keep Anna from starting her "new life" with the new guy that she meet. Someone had reported Anna to the attendant and the attendant took her job to far.
Quote: Edward leaned his head against the same shoulder where he’d placed Renesmee. “Goodbye, Jacob, my brother…my son”
Response: This is a tone technique because in this quote the author had put in some kind of sad and depressing tone. This quote is important because in the story and in the previous series, Edward and Jacob dislike each other because they both loved Bella. But since Bella had chosen Edward over Jacob, he has now learned to accept that because he now imprinted or loves someone else, Bella’s daughter, Renesmee. And since Jacob has been around at Edward’s place a lot, watching out for Edward’s family and mostly for Bella, for any danger they start to get along. Edward and Jacob both knew in their minds that each of them is good people but they never said that aloud in public until now.
Pg #1 “Just over a year ago my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true-he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belongs to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.”
The technique used in this passage was a simile. The narrator, Sal, is comparing herself to a weed. In the passage she expresses that she was plucked like a weed, meaning she felt displaced. This technique made the story better because it really helps me understand how Sal feels in the situation. A weed is plucked from the ground unwillingly. It has no say in whether it wants to stay in the ground or not. Sal is plucked like a weed and moves to Euclid, Ohio. Now, I understand how Sal feels because she compared herself to a weed. Sal had her reservations about moving and had no say in the decision; like no matter what, she had no power. Sal is like a weed in this situation, moving resentfully. This simile is important because it affects Sal’s attitude toward the place she is about to live, which could become a major conflict in the story.
Megan B 2B "What if All the Rumors Were True" by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James
p. 25 "At that moment the SAT prep teacher finally walzed in,a small,thinly bearded and bespectacled young man who looked barely a year out of college.He wore a checkered cotton shirt,jeans and black high-top sneakers."
This passage is a good representation of imagery. It is showing every outside detail about the SAT prep teacher when he walks in the classroom. At this point in the story Hayley and some of her classmates are just getting in to the school year and it is their first time in this classroom with this specific teacher. I find it very effective to tell the readers what the teacher is wearing because sometimes how they look on the outside reflects on what they are like on the inside and their sternness. In this case though, what he is wearing determines nothing of what he is like. Once he starts talking he is very strict and stern unlike what he is wearing which is very casual and calm.
passage:A shadowless city empty as, it seemed. The wind wispered a tune as,hit the wood against the old house.Not a sound or soul could be heard.
Response:In this passsage it described the feeling and how empty the house was.It used sensory details in describing and gave a vibe of a horror story. I think the author in which describing this sentences in the passage about a house/city that had no people or any life and civilization.
Secrets of my Hollywood Life By Jen Calonita p. 242
“Maggie turns away from us and faces the camera behind her. She’s wearing a lace-covered purple Violet Wade wedding dress that is so tight she looks like a mummy.”
In this passage the main character, Kaitlin, was using a simile comparing Maggie’s Violet Wade wedding dress to a mummy. This also shows a little bit of Kaitlin’s prissy personality. I don’t think that she means to be harmful, but in this book she definitely has no problem saying what she thinks.
"Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld p.4-5 "The water glistened through the trees, and she could hear the wavelets of a passing river skimmer's wake slapping at the shore."
This is just the very beginning of the book, nothing has really started yet and tally is just describing her peaceful evening right before she falls asleep. I think this imagery helps me actually watching this happen and realize what a simple girl she really is. If Mr. Westerfeld would have just flat out said this plain and boring,it wouldn't had made that one little part so unique and basically just special. It tells you something about Tally and that she really does enjoy simple things in life like the trees and a river. It helps me right from the beginning start to learn a little bit about Tally Youngblood.
Title: The Wright 3 Author: Blue Balliett pg.124 Passage: “He broke off and looked at his wife, who was frowning. ‘The glass in the windows rippled as if it were flexible, as if it were the skin of an animal or a reptile. I saw a – well, a wave of color as all those little segments of glass moved sequentially.’” Response: This passage gives the windows human features because it’s saying that the windows are flexible like skin of a reptile or an animal. So you can easily see that the literary technique is Figurative Language. This passage also is a simile because it is comparing the windows to the flexibility of skin and it compares them by using the word “as”. Usually, when the technique of a passage is Figurative Language, there’s a simile / metaphor in / with it. These techniques make the writing better because it gives an extra detail to make the reading more visually descriptive, so that you understand what the author is thinking / talking about when writing this passage.
“Christian’s wearing a straw-boater, with a navy-and-red-striped band, a baby-blue V-necked jumper, and Aviators. He looks like he got lost somewhere near Henley 1985, and has just woken up in my car. I am wearing a big floppy pink straw hat that I found in my closet, with a think orange band around the center and a large lime-green bow. The rim keeps flopping over my eyes as I drive and I swerve occasionally when it completely masks my vision. I have on huge Chanel black sunglasses, Jackie Onassis-style, despite there being no sun, and they are making it hard to see when to stop, and when to go, at the traffic lights.”
This paragraph is a strong example of imagery. In this paragraph, the two characters are going on a road trip to nowhere, but with these details, I can tell what other drivers may think when they pass their car. This paragraph is also very important because most of the time, you can tell a person’s personality by the way they dress, and I can tell that they don’t really care of what others think of their outfit, even though I dress like that sometimes too! But throughout the book, they are both very strong characters that are very serious and in this passage, it shows them in a more relaxed state because people who are under stress most of the time wouldn’t like having hats and huge sunglasses blocking your view all the time.
“A Wind in the Door” by Madeleine L’Engle pg.136 It spoke, but with neither a mouse’s squeak nor a human voice. The sound was like harp strings being plucked under water, and the long whiskers vibrated almost as though they were being played. It did not give forth words, and yet it was quite plain that it was saying something like “Hello, are you my classmates?” The technique used in this passage is simile. The mouse’s voice is being compared to the sound of harp strings being plucked under water. Since I know that a harp string plucked under water is quiet, I understood that the mouse’s voice was also quiet and in a way muffled since it is being compared to the harp strings under water. Knowing that the mouse’s voice is quiet helped me to predict that the mouse is shy but just as a harp string gets louder as it comes closer to the surface of the water I think the mouse will become more comfortable, less shy as it ventures farther into life.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon By: Stephen King Pages: 262
Passage: Page: 89 “she pulled the door up and the stairs leading down to the cellar were gone. The stairwell itself was gone. Where it had been was a monstrous bulging wasps’ nest. Hundreds of wasps were flying out of it though a black hole like eye of a man who has died surprised, and no, it wasn’t hundreds but thousands, plump ungainly poison factories flying strait at her.
Response: This passage compares a lot of wasps to a black hole like eye of a man died of surprised. It uses this metaphor to explain the sight that Trisha (the main character) must have seen. This passage gives u the feel that Trisha is about to be stung by a lot of wasps
Ithaka By Adela Geras p. 50 “Telemachus laughed. ‘Come on, then, let’s go climb your stupid rocks. It’s not fun being here with you. You’re making me nervous. Come on”
This is an example of tone. This use of tone makes the writing better because it shows the relationship that Telemachus and Ikarios share. The line “It’s no fun being here with you. You’re making me nervous.” shows that they have common fears. Another way this example of tone shows the boy’s relationship is in the line “Let’s go climb you’re stupid rocks.” This line shows that while they might have common fears they may not have the same hobbies or like the same things, such as rock climbing.
Passage: “The first thing we could make out, after minutes of blinking and squinting, was the thick whiteness that fell from the dark face, a million splinters of pale in the night. When we grasped that this was a beard—like Santa Claus, we thought chaotically – the other pieces of the face was supplied by the memory”
Literary Technique: Simile
Response: In this passage Melanie and Wanderer are comparing Uncle Jeb’s beard to Santa Claus’s beard. It is a simile because it is comparing using the word “like”. This is saying that Uncle Jeb’s beard is an older man, due to the fact that his beard is white. It is important to the story because the man’s beard made Melanie and Wanderer realize that they knew the man, because the man’s white beard fit their memories of the past, and that is was Uncle Jeb next to them.
Quote: “In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.”
Response: In this quote Bella is comparing living with her father, Charlie, to having her own place. This quote is significant in the story because of how could a child compare living with their parent to living on their own. It seems like maybe Charlie is probably not home much because Bella is saying she is “reveling in the aloneness”.
Pg.#57 Passage: My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
The author is using a simile technique, by comparing melinda's mother to a retail junkie. Which is someone who goes shopping around for things that they don't need. It's because of black friday (the day after thanksgiving) the start of the christmas shopping season that she acts this way. She stresses over keeping her store in line making shore everything is ready for this big day. She doesn't have time to think about her family most of the time. So she rushes and stresses over everything and starts forgetting about everything else except for what she is most concerned about.
First Part Last p.42 literary luminary: TONE Quote: ‘I was up all night with Feather, who thinks two in the morning is party time. She just smiles, though, unless you try to out her down, then she screams like it’s the end of the world.’ Response: To me this is an example of tone because I can hear him now. I can hear him saying this in a tired, aggravated voice. I mean he is a teenager with barely any money trying to raise a child all by himself. If it were me I would probably be frustrated to but I know that he loves his child very much by the tone of some other parts in the story. This quote tells me that he is coming to reality about realizing the consequences of pre-marital sex. If he would have waited then his wife would be there to help him out with Feather. This specific use of tone in the story makes the over all story better because it truly brings out a lot of emotion and will help all people reading it to be able to reassess their thoughts before making the same mistake that Bobby made. I wasn’t too sure that this was the best choice for tone but I do know that it is the most impactful. I think that this tone can change minds around the world. I think that it is amazing that something so small can actually be interpreted into something so HUGE!
Passage: "Bedsprings creak as she rolls back and forth, laughing again, and I can't help myself. I lose it too. Soup spills over the edge of the bowl and onto the sheet, and I have to set the tray down before it's all in our laps, a sloppy puddle of noodles and chicken bits and celery slices. Our laughter sounds like bells. The next twenty minutes pass this way. Stupid questions. Stupid answers. More laughter. If she weren't dying, it would be perfect."
Response: I chose this passage because it uses imagery and tone. Star is reminiscing on times before her mom died. Mark Delaney makes it so easy to imagine Star and her mother laughing and talking and the tone of the passage is light and everything feels perfect. And then he changes the tone to dissapointment and sadness with one sentence of teling that her mother is dying.
Passage: Bernie taught me everything I knew, and she was a very good teacher. When she explained things, they shot into my brain like arrows and stuck. She could describe an Artic blizzard or cross-pollination, and suddenly I'd be leaning into the bite of a freezing wind.
Response: The technique used in this passage is a similie. This similie is comparing Heidi's brain and how she remembers things like an arrow being shot and sticking wherever it lands. This really helps me understand how much different Heidi is from her mom. It takes her mom a very long time to learn simple things like opening a can (pg. 6). When I think of an arrow being thrown and stuck where it lands, it really helps me understand the way Heidi takes in things she learns, and how smart she must be. As she grows up, I can now draw a conclusion that she will not be anything like her mother and can live a normal life, on her own.
Secrets in the Shadows By: Anne Schraff Literary Luminary : Simile
Passage: Roylin paid no attention to Ms.Eckerly’s lecture on Civil War battles. He kept starring at Korie, at the way she tilted her head when she was puzzled, at how her smooth hand rubbed against her neck when she grew tired of looking at the chalkboard. Roylin had dated other girls, and some of them were pretty, but no girl he had ever seen measured up to Korie. She was somebody he expected to see on the cover of a magazine, not sitting in his classroom. She had one of those incredible faces and bodies that do not seem like they belong in the real world, especially the world Roylin Bailey lived in. Response: The technique being used in this passage is simile. The simile is, Korie being compared to a girl on the cover on a magazine and not a girl that should be in his class. Roylin describes her as a girl that other could not measure up to Korie even if they were beautiful. He also said that she had a face and body that did not seem like it belonged in the real world, to me it seems that he is calling her face and body somewhat fake but it is real.
The Ninth Key Mediator Meg Cabot Literary Luminary: simile page# 86
Passage: Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
What is being compared is this mansion of a house with a huge lot and Polynesian Resort at Disney World. The Polynesian Resort has lush gardens, white-sand beaches, and freeform pool with slide and waterfall. This line from the story is significant because Sam is a mediator who is pretending to be a reporter who is doing a story on the ten most influential people in Carmel and since this mansion owner is obliviously rich, it was the perfect cover. So this mansion owner can afford things like lush gardens, a mansion with a view, and about three acres of land just like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World.
Literary Luminary- Simile "The Super Naturalist" By Eoin Colfer Pg # 11
Passage: “But Ziplock couldn’t stop. The words were spewing out of him like agitated bees from a hive. He‘s psychotic said Redwood”
Response: This simile is really important the story because it shows how the Clarissa Frayne Institute really scars and make these children go nuts. This also shows the aftermath of a very horrible experiment, which eventually leads to Cosmo escaping after seeing his friend being tortured. Also this simile makes the writing better because it gives an in depth look at the craziness of life at the institute.
Literary Luminary: persinification P.23 "the houses seem to be moving in on them, watching them, as if they knew who they were."
in this sentence Prosper is giving the houses that they pass on their way to the hide out life like features, being able to see him, fllow him, and even know who he is. Almost as if the houses were alive and were going to turn in Bo and Prosper for runing away. By doing this Prosper is making himself ansie and paranoid for the rest of the night thinking that his aunt is going to appear and take Bo away from him. this is segnifigant because it sets up Prospers mind set and feelings for Bo for the rest of the story and leads to them getting discovered.
RESPONSE: THE LITERARY TECHNIQUE USED IS PERSONIFICATION. IT IS GIVING ERASER’S HUMAN LIKE CHARACTERISTICS LIKE WHEN THE ERASERS DIED. ERASERS ARE INANIMATE OBJECTS THUS THEY CANT DIE. IT GOES ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER WEIRD STUFF GOING ON MAKING IT MORE INTERESTING.
“Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld p.147 “Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air.”
This passage compares the buildings of the remains to skeletal fingers. This is an effective simile because it gives an example of why going through the rusty ruins makes Tally uneasy and unsure if she wants to go through with her mission, even if it means never seeing her friend again or never turning pretty because of the creepy aspects of the rusty ruins. So perhaps comparing the frames of the buildings to skeletal fingers could give you that connection of feeling “creepy” much like Tally said she felt going into the unknown wild.
Passage: “One by one, rays of pale gold light streaked across the verdant fields from the coast illuminating the countless motes of dust that drifted through the air. Where the rays struck a column of smoke it glowed orange and red and billowed with renewed energy.”
Response: I believe this passage effectively displays imagery because if you read it you can almost imagine the sun setting over the verdant fields and since the place being described is close to the coast you probably would also be able to smell the ocean breeze or aromas wafting from the ocean. In this particular section of the story Eragon and Saphira are just coming from a battle with King Galbatorix’s mighty forces. They have emerged victorious however they have just received the news that their mentors and friends have just been defeated and killed by Murtaugh and his dragon Thorn along with the help of Galbatorix, and as a result the tone in this part of the story is sad. If you account the tone at this point in the story you can imagine this particular image in a more somber yet glorious tone as Eragon sits with his dragon Saphira and watches the sunset mourning over the elf rider and his dragon Glaedr, but they also feel the expectation of their hopeful defeat over Galbatorix and how they will with many more battles to come to free Algaesia and avenge their slain allies.
“Rumors” By Anna Godbersen Pg. 118 “She would gladly have had something that sounded like good news to share with her mother. But most of all she longed for older sister, who so often had been aloof, judgmental girl when she had still lived in the Holland house, but who now seemed like the only person really qualified to asses Diana’s situation.”
This passage is an example of ‘irony’ because the one time Diana needs her sister, Elizabeth, she isn’t there. This passage helps me understand more about the book because it tells me how Diana is changing from a socially scandalous girl to a drama-ridden woman. Now that she must fill her sister’s empty shoes, while trying to get Henry, her love, to actually recognize her, even though their courtship would be shunned in society because Henry was her sister’s fiancé before she died. The technique of ‘irony’ can be sad or amusing; in this case, if Anna had used an amusing type of irony, then it would ‘kill’ the essence of the story – which is dark and sparkled drama.
Passage: Cutting their way through the dens, suffocating undergrowth, fighting through the very air, which hung heavy, moist, and still. Trees as tall as cathedrals surrounded them, and a strange green light—almost holy—shimmered through the vast canopy of leaves. The rain forest seemed to have an intelligence of its own.
Response: This is the first part of the prologue and it sets the setting for the it, this passage shows imagery because of the way that the author makes you feel like you are really in the rain forest cutting through the under brush. This is important to the story because it is like the foundation of the prologue because without explaining this none of the story after it would make any since.
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“The Dwarf” By Ray Bradbury p. 283
“Ralph sat cold and waxen in his glass coffin, laying out the cards, his eyes fixed, his mouth stiff.”
This passage compares Ralph’s ticket booth to a coffin. It’s an effective use of a metaphor because it foreshadows something bad to happen (perhaps the death of Ralph or the death of the dwarf, or even the death of Ralph’s friendship with Aimee). It also makes us picture Ralph as “cold and waxen” inside the “coffin.” He’s not a warm, lovable character but a creepy one that you’d rather not meet at the end of an empty pier. Since he continues playing cards in this scene even after Aimee approaches, it helps confirm the readers’ feeling that Ralph is comfortable being the “cold” and heartless person that he is.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author C.S. Lewis
Literary Luminary: Personification Page# 64
Passage: But this time it did not immediately draw back. Instead the animal put its paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to you to be quiet.
Response: The sentences were it says just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to you to be quiet. So that part is comparing the animal to things that humans do. It is important because in the story almost all of the animals talk and do human like things. Talking would be the only way that animals could communicate in the story because the witch causes the animals to talk because of a spell she puts on them. The talking of the animals also helps to defeat the find the lost brother Edmund.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: C.S. Lewis
Literary Luminar: Personification PG# 64
Passage:But this time it did not immediately draw back. Instead the animal put its paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signaling to be quiet.
Response: The sentence were it says that the animal put his paw against his mouth to signal to be quiet just as humans it is comparing that to things that humans do. It is important because the witch puts a curse on the animals to make them do human like things. Also talking and doing humans like things would be the only two ways of communication.
Please grade this one instead of the other response!!!!!!!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By J.K. Rowling
p. 335
“Another branch whipped down at them, twigs clenched like knuckles.”
In this passage the author is giving personification to the Whomping Willow (a destructive tree), by saying that the twigs on the branch cracked and clenched like knuckles. As if to punch Harry and Hermione, the Willow made a fist and thrust it at them to keep them away from passing on by it. It is like how a person would defend themselves. It is also a simile because it is comparing a person’s knuckles, to the tree’s branches and twigs. This is important because this tree is very destructive and has a purpose for being there, but now from this experience the characters figure out why.
The A-List by Zoey Dean p.17
Literary Luminary- simile
Passage:"With turquiose eye shadow
and helmet hair, she looked exactly like Miss Corrigan, Anna's hated third-grade teacher."
Response:This passage is comparing Anna’s old teacher to the flight attendant. It is important because she is the woman who is trying to keep Anna from starting her "new life" with the new guy that she meet. Someone had reported Anna to the attendant and the attendant took her job to far.
Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Literary Luminary: Tone Page# 723
Quote:
Edward leaned his head against the same shoulder where he’d placed Renesmee. “Goodbye, Jacob, my brother…my son”
Response:
This is a tone technique because in this quote the author had put in some kind of sad and depressing tone. This quote is important because in the story and in the previous series, Edward and Jacob dislike each other because they both loved Bella. But since Bella had chosen Edward over Jacob, he has now learned to accept that because he now imprinted or loves someone else, Bella’s daughter, Renesmee. And since Jacob has been around at Edward’s place a lot, watching out for Edward’s family and mostly for Bella, for any danger they start to get along. Edward and Jacob both knew in their minds that each of them is good people but they never said that aloud in public until now.
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Pg #1
“Just over a year ago my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true-he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belongs to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.”
The technique used in this passage was a simile. The narrator, Sal, is comparing herself to a weed. In the passage she expresses that she was plucked like a weed, meaning she felt displaced. This technique made the story better because it really helps me understand how Sal feels in the situation. A weed is plucked from the ground unwillingly. It has no say in whether it wants to stay in the ground or not. Sal is plucked like a weed and moves to Euclid, Ohio. Now, I understand how Sal feels because she compared herself to a weed. Sal had her reservations about moving and had no say in the decision; like no matter what, she had no power. Sal is like a weed in this situation, moving resentfully. This simile is important because it affects Sal’s attitude toward the place she is about to live, which could become a major conflict in the story.
Megan B 2B
"What if All the Rumors Were True" by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James
p. 25
"At that moment the SAT prep teacher finally walzed in,a small,thinly bearded and bespectacled young man who looked barely a year out of college.He wore a checkered cotton shirt,jeans and black high-top sneakers."
This passage is a good representation of imagery. It is showing every outside detail about the SAT prep teacher when he walks in the classroom. At this point in the story Hayley and some of her classmates are just getting in to the school year and it is their first time in this classroom with this specific teacher. I find it very effective to tell the readers what the teacher is wearing because sometimes how they look on the outside reflects on what they are like on the inside and their sternness. In this case though, what he is wearing determines nothing of what he is like. Once he starts talking he is very strict and stern unlike what he is wearing which is very casual and calm.
"Glass City" By: George L. Williams pg.47
passage:A shadowless city empty as, it seemed. The wind wispered a tune as,hit the wood against the old house.Not a sound or soul could be heard.
Response:In this passsage it described the feeling and how empty the house was.It used sensory details in describing
and gave a vibe of a horror story.
I think the author in which describing this sentences in the passage about a house/city that had no people or any life and civilization.
Secrets of my Hollywood Life By Jen Calonita p. 242
“Maggie turns away from us and faces the camera behind her. She’s wearing a lace-covered purple Violet Wade wedding dress that is so tight she looks like a mummy.”
In this passage the main character, Kaitlin, was using a simile comparing Maggie’s Violet Wade wedding dress to a mummy. This also shows a little bit of Kaitlin’s prissy personality. I don’t think that she means to be harmful, but in this book she definitely has no problem saying what she thinks.
"Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld p.4-5
"The water glistened through the trees, and she could hear the wavelets of a passing river skimmer's wake slapping at the shore."
This is just the very beginning of the book, nothing has really started yet and tally is just describing her peaceful evening right before she falls asleep. I think this imagery helps me actually watching this happen and realize what a simple girl she really is. If Mr. Westerfeld would have just flat out said this plain and boring,it wouldn't had made that one little part so unique and basically just special. It tells you something about Tally and that she really does enjoy simple things in life like the trees and a river. It helps me right from the beginning start to learn a little bit about Tally Youngblood.
Title: The Wright 3 Author: Blue Balliett pg.124
Passage: “He broke off and looked at his wife, who was frowning. ‘The glass in the windows rippled as if it were flexible, as if it were the skin of an animal or a reptile. I saw a – well, a wave of color as all those little segments of glass moved sequentially.’”
Response: This passage gives the windows human features because it’s saying that the windows are flexible like skin of a reptile or an animal. So you can easily see that the literary technique is Figurative Language. This passage also is a simile because it is comparing the windows to the flexibility of skin and it compares them by using the word “as”. Usually, when the technique of a passage is Figurative Language, there’s a simile / metaphor in / with it. These techniques make the writing better because it gives an extra detail to make the reading more visually descriptive, so that you understand what the author is thinking / talking about when writing this passage.
“The Perfect Fit.” by Louise Kean
pg. 300
“Christian’s wearing a straw-boater, with a navy-and-red-striped band, a baby-blue V-necked jumper, and Aviators. He looks like he got lost somewhere near Henley 1985, and has just woken up in my car. I am wearing a big floppy pink straw hat that I found in my closet, with a think orange band around the center and a large lime-green bow. The rim keeps flopping over my eyes as I drive and I swerve occasionally when it completely masks my vision. I have on huge Chanel black sunglasses, Jackie Onassis-style, despite there being no sun, and they are making it hard to see when to stop, and when to go, at the traffic lights.”
This paragraph is a strong example of imagery. In this paragraph, the two characters are going on a road trip to nowhere, but with these details, I can tell what other drivers may think when they pass their car. This paragraph is also very important because most of the time, you can tell a person’s personality by the way they dress, and I can tell that they don’t really care of what others think of their outfit, even though I dress like that sometimes too! But throughout the book, they are both very strong characters that are very serious and in this passage, it shows them in a more relaxed state because people who are under stress most of the time wouldn’t like having hats and huge sunglasses blocking your view all the time.
“A Wind in the Door” by Madeleine L’Engle pg.136
It spoke, but with neither a mouse’s squeak nor a human voice. The sound was like harp strings being plucked under water, and the long whiskers vibrated almost as though they were being played. It did not give forth words, and yet it was quite plain that it was saying something like “Hello, are you my classmates?”
The technique used in this passage is simile. The mouse’s voice is being compared to the sound of harp strings being plucked under water. Since I know that a harp string plucked under water is quiet, I understood that the mouse’s voice was also quiet and in a way muffled since it is being compared to the harp strings under water. Knowing that the mouse’s voice is quiet helped me to predict that the mouse is shy but just as a harp string gets louder as it comes closer to the surface of the water I think the mouse will become more comfortable, less shy as it ventures farther into life.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By: Stephen King
Pages: 262
Passage:
Page: 89
“she pulled the door up and the stairs leading down to the cellar were gone. The stairwell itself was gone. Where it had been was a monstrous bulging wasps’ nest. Hundreds of wasps were flying out of it though a black hole like eye of a man who has died surprised, and no, it wasn’t hundreds but thousands, plump ungainly poison factories flying strait at her.
Response:
This passage compares a lot of wasps to a black hole like eye of a man died of surprised. It uses this metaphor to explain the sight that Trisha (the main character) must have seen. This passage gives u the feel that Trisha is about to be stung by a lot of wasps
Ithaka By Adela Geras p. 50
“Telemachus laughed. ‘Come on, then, let’s go climb your stupid rocks. It’s not fun being here with you. You’re making me nervous. Come on”
This is an example of tone. This use of tone makes the writing better because it shows the relationship that Telemachus and Ikarios share. The line “It’s no fun being here with you. You’re making me nervous.” shows that they have common fears.
Another way this example of tone shows the boy’s relationship is in the line “Let’s go climb you’re stupid rocks.” This line shows that while they might have common fears they may not have the same hobbies or like the same things, such as rock climbing.
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
Pg# 116
Passage:
“The first thing we could make out, after minutes of blinking and squinting, was the thick whiteness that fell from the dark face, a million splinters of pale
in the night. When we grasped that this was a beard—like Santa Claus, we thought chaotically – the other pieces of the face was supplied by the memory”
Literary Technique: Simile
Response:
In this passage Melanie and Wanderer are comparing Uncle Jeb’s beard to Santa Claus’s beard. It is a simile because it is comparing using the word “like”. This is saying that Uncle Jeb’s beard is an older man, due to the fact that his beard is white. It is important to the story because the man’s beard made Melanie and Wanderer realize that they knew the man, because the man’s white beard fit their memories of the past, and that is was Uncle Jeb next to them.
Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Literary Luminary: Simile- page-54
Quote: “In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.”
Response: In this quote Bella is comparing living with her father, Charlie, to having her own place. This quote is significant in the story because of how could a child compare living with their parent to living on their own. It seems like maybe Charlie is probably not home much because Bella is saying she is “reveling in the aloneness”.
Speak
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Pg.#57 Passage:
My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
The author is using a simile technique, by comparing melinda's mother to a retail junkie. Which is someone who goes shopping around for things that they don't need. It's because of black friday (the day after thanksgiving) the start of the christmas shopping season that she acts this way. She stresses over keeping her store in line making shore everything is ready for this big day. She doesn't have time to think about her family most of the time. So she rushes and stresses over everything and starts forgetting about everything else except for what she is most concerned about.
First Part Last p.42
literary luminary: TONE
Quote: ‘I was up all night with Feather, who thinks two in the morning is party time. She just smiles, though, unless you try to out her down, then she screams like it’s the end of the world.’
Response: To me this is an example of tone because I can hear him now. I can hear him saying this in a tired, aggravated voice. I mean he is a teenager with barely any money trying to raise a child all by himself. If it were me I would probably be frustrated to but I know that he loves his child very much by the tone of some other parts in the story. This quote tells me that he is coming to reality about realizing the consequences of pre-marital sex. If he would have waited then his wife would be there to help him out with Feather. This specific use of tone in the story makes the over all story better because it truly brings out a lot of emotion and will help all people reading it to be able to reassess their thoughts before making the same mistake that Bobby made. I wasn’t too sure that this was the best choice for tone but I do know that it is the most impactful. I think that this tone can change minds around the world. I think that it is amazing that something so small can actually be interpreted into something so HUGE!
"Pepperland" by Mark Delaney
Page 32
Passage:
"Bedsprings creak as she rolls back and forth, laughing again, and I can't help myself. I lose it too. Soup spills over the edge of the bowl and onto the sheet, and I have to set the tray down before it's all in our laps, a sloppy puddle of noodles and chicken bits and celery slices. Our laughter sounds like bells. The next twenty minutes pass this way. Stupid questions. Stupid answers. More laughter. If she weren't dying, it would be perfect."
Response:
I chose this passage because it uses imagery and tone. Star is reminiscing on times before her mom died. Mark Delaney makes it so easy to imagine Star and her mother laughing and talking and the tone of the passage is light and everything feels perfect. And then he changes the tone to dissapointment and sadness with one sentence of teling that her mother is dying.
Title:So B. It
By: Sarah Weeks
Page: 9
Passage:
Bernie taught me everything I knew, and she was a very good teacher. When she explained things, they shot into my brain like arrows and stuck. She could describe an Artic blizzard or cross-pollination, and suddenly I'd
be leaning into the bite of a freezing wind.
Response:
The technique used in this passage is a similie. This similie is comparing Heidi's brain and how she remembers things like an arrow being shot and sticking wherever it lands. This really helps me understand how
much different Heidi is from her mom. It takes her mom a very long time to learn simple things like opening a can
(pg. 6). When I think of an arrow being thrown and stuck where it lands, it really helps me understand the way Heidi takes in things she learns, and how smart she must be. As she grows up, I can now draw a conclusion that she will not be anything like her mother and can live a normal life, on her own.
Secrets in the Shadows
By: Anne Schraff
Literary Luminary : Simile
Passage:
Roylin paid no attention to Ms.Eckerly’s lecture on Civil War battles. He kept starring at Korie, at the way she tilted her head when she was puzzled, at how her smooth hand rubbed against her neck when she grew tired of looking at the chalkboard. Roylin had dated other girls, and some of them were pretty, but no girl he had ever seen measured up to Korie. She was somebody he expected to see on the cover of a magazine, not sitting in his classroom. She had one of those incredible faces and bodies that do not seem like they belong in the real world, especially the world Roylin Bailey lived in.
Response:
The technique being used in this passage is simile. The simile is, Korie being compared to a girl on the cover on a magazine and not a girl that should be in his class. Roylin describes her as a girl that other could not measure up to Korie even if they were beautiful. He also said that she had a face and body that did not seem like it belonged in the real world, to me it seems that he is calling her face and body somewhat fake but it is real.
The Ninth Key Mediator Meg Cabot
Literary Luminary: simile page# 86
Passage: Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
What is being compared is this mansion of a house with a huge lot and Polynesian Resort at Disney World. The Polynesian Resort has lush gardens, white-sand beaches, and freeform pool with slide and waterfall. This line from the story is significant because Sam is a mediator who is pretending to be a reporter who is doing a story on the ten most influential people in Carmel and since this mansion owner is obliviously rich, it was the perfect cover. So this mansion owner can afford things like lush gardens, a mansion with a view, and about three acres of land just like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World.
Literary Luminary- Simile
"The Super Naturalist"
By Eoin Colfer
Pg # 11
Passage: “But Ziplock couldn’t stop. The words were spewing out of him like agitated bees from a hive. He‘s psychotic said Redwood”
Response: This simile is really important the story because it shows how the Clarissa Frayne Institute really scars and make these children go nuts. This also shows the aftermath of a very horrible experiment, which eventually leads to Cosmo escaping after seeing his friend being tortured. Also this simile makes the writing better because it gives an in depth look at the craziness of life at the institute.
"The Thief Lord" By Cornelia Funke
Literary Luminary: persinification P.23 "the houses seem to be moving in on them, watching them, as if they knew who they were."
in this sentence Prosper is giving the houses that they pass on their way to the hide out life like features, being able to see him, fllow him, and even know who he is. Almost as if the houses were alive and were going to turn in Bo and Prosper for runing away. By doing this Prosper is making himself ansie and paranoid for the rest of the night thinking that his aunt is going to appear and take Bo away from him. this is segnifigant because it sets up Prospers mind set and feelings for Bo for the rest of the story and leads to them getting discovered.
MAXIMUM RIDE
BY: JAMES PATTERSON
PG: 58
“THE ERASERS WERE ALL DEAD NOW”
RESPONSE: THE LITERARY TECHNIQUE USED IS PERSONIFICATION. IT IS GIVING ERASER’S HUMAN LIKE CHARACTERISTICS LIKE WHEN THE ERASERS DIED. ERASERS ARE INANIMATE OBJECTS THUS THEY CANT DIE. IT GOES ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER WEIRD STUFF GOING ON MAKING IT MORE INTERESTING.
“Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld p.147
“Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air.”
This passage compares the buildings of the remains to skeletal fingers. This is an effective simile because it gives an example of why going through the rusty ruins makes Tally uneasy and unsure if she wants to go through with her mission, even if it means never seeing her friend again or never turning pretty because of the creepy aspects of the rusty ruins. So perhaps comparing the frames of the buildings to skeletal fingers could give you that connection of feeling “creepy” much like Tally said she felt going into the unknown wild.
Brisingr
Christopher Paolini
pg.747
Literary Luminary: Imagery
Passage: “One by one, rays of pale gold light streaked across the verdant fields from the coast illuminating the countless motes of dust that drifted through the air. Where the rays struck a column of smoke it glowed orange and red and billowed with renewed energy.”
Response: I believe this passage effectively displays imagery because if you read it you can almost imagine the sun setting over the verdant fields and since the place being described is close to the coast you probably would also be able to smell the ocean breeze or aromas wafting from the ocean. In this particular section of the story Eragon and Saphira are just coming from a battle with King Galbatorix’s mighty forces. They have emerged victorious however they have just received the news that their mentors and friends have just been defeated and killed by Murtaugh and his dragon Thorn along with the help of Galbatorix, and as a result the tone in this part of the story is sad. If you account the tone at this point in the story you can imagine this particular image in a more somber yet glorious tone as Eragon sits with his dragon Saphira and watches the sunset mourning over the elf rider and his dragon Glaedr, but they also feel the expectation of their hopeful defeat over Galbatorix and how they will with many more battles to come to free Algaesia and avenge their slain allies.
“Rumors” By Anna Godbersen Pg. 118
“She would gladly have had something that sounded like good news to share with her mother. But most of all she longed for older sister, who so often had been aloof, judgmental girl when she had still lived in the Holland house, but who now seemed like the only person really qualified to asses Diana’s situation.”
This passage is an example of ‘irony’ because the one time Diana needs her sister, Elizabeth, she isn’t there. This passage helps me understand more about the book because it tells me how Diana is changing from a socially scandalous girl to a drama-ridden woman. Now that she must fill her sister’s empty shoes, while trying to get Henry, her love, to actually recognize her, even though their courtship would be shunned in society because Henry was her sister’s fiancé before she died. The technique of ‘irony’ can be sad or amusing; in this case, if Anna had used an amusing type of irony, then it would ‘kill’ the essence of the story – which is dark and sparkled drama.
Eagle Strike
Author Anthony Horowitz
Literary Luminary: Imagery Page# 1
Passage: Cutting their way through the dens, suffocating undergrowth, fighting through the very air, which hung heavy, moist, and still. Trees as tall as cathedrals surrounded them, and a strange green light—almost holy—shimmered through the vast canopy of leaves. The rain forest seemed to have an intelligence of its own.
Response: This is the first part of the prologue and it sets the setting for the it, this passage shows imagery because of the way that the author makes you feel like you are really in the rain forest cutting through the under brush. This is important to the story because it is like the foundation of the prologue because without explaining this none of the story after it would make any since.
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