Passage:” I don’t know if he’s wonderful or scary or what.” We were almost to the woods, and I could smell the pines and the clean moist smell of the bark and new leaves on the maples and the poplars.
Response: This is an Imagery/Sensory detail because it is describing what that person smells. They can smell which is showing one of the five senses. It explains what they smell which gives us an insight on what they are sensing.
“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.
Passage: “Ahead, at the border between the Trails and the true wilderness, the two Smokies were already descending, their boards’ magnetic lifters running out of metal. Their skidding descent echoed through the brush, followed by sounds of running feet...She made a finger gesture, and the chips in her hands and brain responded, laying an infrared channel over Tally’s vision. The world was transformed--the snow-patched ground turning a cold blue, the trees emitting soft green halos—every object illuminated by its own heat. A few small mammals stood out, red and pulsing, heads twitching, as if they instinctively knew that something dangerous was nearby. Not far away, a hovering Fausto glowed, his feverish Special –body bright yellow, and Tally’s own hands seemed to course with orange flames.” (pg. 28-29)
Response: This passage effectively uses sensory language to help the reader descriptively visualize, and a bit of hearing in the passage. It explains the sight of the “snow-patched” ground turning a cold blue. Trees emitting “soft green halos”, and Fausto’s “bright yellow” feverish body. Tally herself thought her hands “seemed” to course with orange flames. It’s descriptively telling how the object is colored. This passage also explains how Tally heard the sound of running feat. This passage effectively gives us the insight of visualization and sound in sensory language.
Literary Luminary: Metaphor. “deep green: color me jealous” by Melody Carlson. Pg. 11.
Passage: “And so it went. A regular cat-and-mouse game. But he thought he was the cat pursuing the hard-to-get mouse. Little did he know.”
Response: This is a metaphor because Jordan (The Main Character) is comparing her and Timothy (The Main Characters newly acquired boyfriend) to a cat and a mouse clichéd action. It’s pretty close to personification however it is not nature being described by doing a human antic, but instead is a human action being compared to an animals action. This is important because this whole cat and mouse metaphor is what starts the dilemma and the actual story, and we all know how much a problem contributes to a story. Jordan has stolen away Timothy and must endure a cheerleader ex-friend who has turned on Jordan, along with her “cronies.” or most of the cheer leading squad. Now she must turn to her one and only best friend, someone who is always there for her. (And you must read the story to know who that is.)
“ The next morning, Jenna stood on the edge of the wooden planks that made up the beginner’s diving pier at the Lakeview lake. The sky was a gorgeous blue with just a few wispy-white clouds. The sun was hot on her shoulders and all around the lake, campers laughed, splashed and squealed, having the time of their lives. Across the water, in the deep end the senior boys and girls were doing relay races while their friends shouted encouragement from the sand. Jenna watched them, wishing she were over there having fun instead of standing over the rippling water, terrified.”
I picked this passage because I can picture Jenna and all the events that are going on. I can picture Jenna sitting out looking at all the other campers having fun. She is on the outside looking in. Imagery is important to this passage because readers can really picture this event. Also because the way imagery is used in the passage really engages reader. I can feel the sun on my shoulders and hear all the other campers laughing , splashing, squealing, and having the time of their lives. Not only does this passage explain how Jenna feels but, it explains what she hears, smells, and sees. In order to fully engaged the reader with imagery you need to use your five senses.
Sister of the Bride Beverly Clearly PG# 178 Passage: “She loved San Francisco. The flower stands… the cable cars… the pigeons wheeling over Union Square… the air of excitement.
Response: This is an Imagery technique because Barbara is imagining Union Square and all the things that are there. She can see the flower stands, the cable cars, pigeons, and can smell the air of excitement. This is 2 of the 5 sensory details.
Passage: “I felt pressed by a huge weight, like every bad minute you had ever had in your life had come back and was inside your chest and just sitting there. It was like having a huge vulture eat at your stomach and being too tired to do anything about it.”
Response: In this part of the story, one of the characters, Pendleton, gets killed by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), and the main character, Robin, just finds out here. The way the author writes this simile lets me understand how Robin felt a lot better, since I have never experienced loss before. This really let me imagine the pain that was being felt there. It must have been terrible.
Passage: “I felt pressed by a huge weight, like every bad minute you had ever had in your life had come back and was inside your chest and just sitting there. It was like having a huge vulture eat at your stomach and being too tired to do anything about it.”
Response: In this part of the story, one of the characters, Pendleton, gets killed by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), and the main character, Robin, just finds out here. The way the author writes this simile lets me understand how Robin felt a lot better, since I have never experienced loss before. This really let me imagine the pain that was being felt there. It must have been terrible.
Passage: “… and we can hear him screamin’ “Andy! Andy! Help me –Oh God please don’t let me die like this! Andy!...” He screamed for what seemed like a long time. Then it was real quiet. All we could hear was flames and little pieces of car sizzlin’ and burnin’…”
Response: The boy who was helpless in my book was Robbie Washington. Robbie and his friends from the basketball team were drinking and driving and had gotten into a car accident. Robbie felt helpless and was helpless because in the car accident, his feet were stuck in the windshield. When the car caught on fire he was screaming for help. His friends tried to help him but the car exploded. When the car exploded, it threw his friends off of the roof where they were trying to pull Robbie out of the car. Sadly Robbie Washington died
Title: All Q, No A More Tales of a 10th - Grade Social Climber
Author: Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser
Page 119
Quote: “Then, after disembarking at a prewar building on the Upper West Side, I entered a lobby with swirled marble banisters and intricate designs carved into its mahogany ceilings. It was no joke, and neither was the Potasnick pad on the fifteenth floor. I hadn’t seen Boris since our banya expedition, but he greeted me warmly, leading me into a room of ice-skating rink proportions, with wall–size windows and priceless urns on pedestals and paintings with their own lights.”
Response: The literary technique used in the quote above is imagery. This quote helped me imagine the scene, when the authors described the building as a “prewar” building, I imagined an old building, looking as if it was about to fall apart. When they mentioned “swirled marble banisters” it reminded me of marble cake. I also liked how they used the phrase “ice-skating rink proportions” because it was interesting way to describe the room and it almost reminded me of how Bradbury puts interesting words and phrases together to capture the reader’s attention. This literary technique makes the writing better because if the authors had not described the place Mimi was at and what it looked liked inside, I would not be interested in the story because I wouldn’t be able to put myself in Mimi’s position and make connections with the things she does and how she thinks.
Title: All Q, No A More Tales of a 10th - Grade Social Climber
Author: Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser
Page 119
Quote: “Then, after disembarking at a prewar building on the Upper West Side, I entered a lobby with swirled marble banisters and intricate designs carved into its mahogany ceilings. It was no joke, and neither was the Potasnick pad on the fifteenth floor. I hadn’t seen Boris since our banya expedition, but he greeted me warmly, leading me into a room of ice-skating rink proportions, with wall–size windows and priceless urns on pedestals and paintings with their own lights.”
Response: The literary technique used in the quote above is imagery. This quote helped me imagine the scene, when the authors described the building as a “prewar” building, I imagined an old building, looking as if it was about to fall apart. When they mentioned “swirled marble banisters” it reminded me of marble cake. I also liked how they used the phrase “ice-skating rink proportions” because it was a interesting way to describe the room and it almost reminded me of how Bradbury puts interesting words and phrases together to capture the reader’s attention. This literary technique makes the writing better because if the authors had not described the place Mimi was at and what it looked liked inside, I would not be interested in the story because I wouldn’t be able to put myself in Mimi’s position and make connections with the things she does and how she thinks.
Passage Like I said, I’ll be famous one day, but for now, I’m stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.
Response The character trait I choose for Greg (main character) is cockiness. This is because when he calls everyone else a moron, except himself, and he is so sure that he will be famous one day. He thinks that he is too good for middle school and his peers.
When I was Puerto Rican By Esmeralda Santiago Pg. 16
Passage: “I ran to the bittersweet shade of the oregano bushes and wept until my chest hurt, each sob tearing off a layer of the comfort built from my parents’ love, until I was totally alone, defended only by the green, the scent of cooking spices, and the dry, brushed dirt under my feet.”
This passage uses a lot of imagery/sensory details. “I ran to the bittersweet shade of the oregano bushes and wept until my chest hurt” puts a picture in your mind of a little girl running away to go hide in the bushes, which is “see” of the 5 sensory details. She tells us the type of bush, an Oregano bush, so it sets a good visual in our minds. “Defended only by the green” also sets an image that she is hiding in the green bushes or plants. “The scent of the cooking spices” gives us a different way to view the sensory details, using smell. Once again she doesn’t tell us that she “smells the food in the kitchen”, but she tells us that she smells spices, so it’s easier to actually “smell” it. “The dry, brushed dirt under my feet” can be “see”, because you can actually picture the dirt under Esmeralda’s feet, and the brushed look of the dirt or you can describe it as “feel”, because Esmeralda feels the dirt under her feet, and to make it easier to “feel” the brushed dirt. With all the sensory details Esmeralda uses to describe what she went through, you can close your eyes and picture it as though you were there with her.
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them--- Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them--- Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them--- Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
Passage: “Calista poured herself a bowl of filmjolk. Then she put cornflakes on top and added a few raisins like Bengt had. She took a bite. It was thick like yogurt, though more tart. Not bad. She helped herself to a piece of hard cracker bread with sweet caviar from a tube, and took the cup of hot coffee Britta handed her. Mm, good. Funny how eating could make you feel so hopeful again.”
Response: This passage is a good example of imagery because I could vividly visualize the exact look of what Calista was eating that day, and having a good picture in my mind of what was happening at that time in the book “Swede Dreams” made me feel more connected to the story. I’m glad that the author chose to make this passage filled with visual details because it is important to know the exact food that could help Calista feel hopeful because without being specific, the readers would forget about how there was hope in her sorrow, and the more emphasis you put on a thought, the more the detail stays in your head and you’ll remember it. In my mind I could see Calista putting her lovely food dish together and taking a bite and being satisfied with her food combination. I could feel the hot coffee cup on my hands as described in the passage. It makes me hungry reading about the food, which means that the author did a good job at using the literary technique of imagery in her wonderful book.
Passage: “The scent of flowers was heavy in the air when Eragon woke to be hold a sun drenched Du Weldenvarden.
Response: The author’s use of imagery in this passage is amazing. The part in the text where he says, “The scent of flowers was heavy in the air” was a great use of imagery because instead of saying something like the scent of flowers was strong or the flowers smelled he said the scent was heavy and that is a lot better. This passage makes you smell the heavy scent of flowers and see the sun drenched Du Weldenvarden a lot better.
Title:Twilight Horses Author:Emma Raven # of pages:126
Quote:"I was on my best horse and she ran, ran so fast it was like I was flying on a blue jet plane."
Response:This is a simile and its a good use of a literary technique because the simile brings so much life to the little girl, Crystal. It was her passion to be in a race and win. And that was her experience in the simile. The simile shows how she felt, and her passion showed the feeling of "flying on a blue jet plane" shows that the horse was going fast and it made Crystal feel good and alive. So pretty much the simile has good "expressions" to it.
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Peterson Page #55 Passage: "It was back in the days when nearly every boat on the bay was under sail, before hard blue crabs brought in much money.
Respones: This passage is imagery/sensory detail because it's describing what the bay looks like before the crabs brought in money for the town. Pictureing this in my mind reminds me of when I would practilly spend a whole summer in Panamal City Bay,that's where my grandparents live. This is definitly imagery because when I read this passage it made me stop and day dream of the times spent on the bay. Not only did I picture it in my head but it made me feel happy inside knowing I can connect to the book and still remember the years ago trip to as I used to call it'Grandma's Bay'. This technique really makes the writing better because it creates a visuial image in my mind and makes me want ingage more in the text.
Passage: “Where are my babies?” said the exhausted mother when the ordeal was through. “Show me my babies.” The father mouse held the one small mouse up high. “There is only this one,” he said. “The others are dead.” “Mon Dieu, just the one mouse baby? “Just the one. Will you name him?” “All of that work for nothing,” said the mother. She sighed. “It is such a disappointment.
Responses: I think this passage gives a great example of irony. Irony is what you don’t expect to happen, and I didn’t expect the mother to be so ungrateful. The mother’s attitude showed she was not proud of her one baby, instead she showed the exact opposite. The mother was clearly unappreciative that just one of her offspring made it; and we know that she doesn’t when she states, “All that work for nothing”.
What if… Everyone Knew Your Name By Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James Pg. # 17
Passage: “Haley was still choking on the convertible’s exhaust fumes when a dingy yellow bus rounded the corner and stopped in front of her driveway. A pair of grafitied glass doors opened. Bracing herself, Haley stepped inside.
“This isn’t the bus for Hillsdale, is it?” she gasped, looking around at the sea of misfits.”
Response: This passage utilizes the literary technique sensory details. I quote the beginning of the first line:
“Haley was still choking on the convertible’s exhaust fumes…”
In this statement the reader can almost feel how intoxicating the fumes were, and that they were strong enough for her to still feel the foul gas. In this line the reader gets a real feel for Haley’s misery. And as the passage continues, Haley’s discomfort only grows. Why is this literary technique important to the passage? Well for starters sensory details lets the reader feel through their senses the overall passage and tone. You can really feel how overwhelmed Haley is. I quote:
“Bracing herself, Haley stepped inside.”
And by the end of reading those sentences you, as a reader are bracing yourself as well as Haley, while she steps inside.
title: Fight Club Author: Chuck Palaniuk page# 118
Passage- "It's in the newspaper today how somebody broke into offices between the tenth and fifteenth floors of the Hein Tower, and climbed out the office windows, and painted the south side of the building with a grinning five-story mask, and set fires so the window at the center of each huge eye blazed huge and alive and inescapable over the city at dawn."
Response- This passage uses allusion; meaning a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature. In the passage it states an important event of a break-in in the Hein Tower. Another thing that shows that this literary luminary is allusion is that is is reported in the newspaper. The criminal written about had broken into the Hein Tower, climbed out of the office wondows, and then painted graffiti on the southside of the building. On top of that, the criminal also started a fire. This event would be a reference to an allusion.
Passage: "His limbs were not entirely colorless, like those of the glass people who had lived in Elinor's garden. Everything about him was pale pink, like the flowers of a wild rose"
Response: This passage effectively uses similes to compare the glass man both to the glass people in her aunts' garden and a wild rose to describe what he looks like. This helps make the writing better by changing the way someone would picture a glass man because usually we would see it as blue or completely see-through, and that is even how I pictured it before I read that he was pink, Cornelia Funke puts a twist on it and makes it even more make believe than it already is. And this is a good example of her creativity and the fun she has with her writing. In both of the Inheart books, she has used great imagination and the stories are very fairy tale like. This is an example of some of the unusual creatures she uses in her stories. This passage make the story more fairy tale like, the way it is supposed to be, and it makes the book that much more enjoyable.
Literary Luminary Pg# 122 Imagery Passage: “The children followed her bewildering behavior with freshly combed and brushed heads. They had never seen their mother so active. The feelings had begun after breakfast when she took their plates from the table, washed and stacked them, and swept the kitchen floor before moving into the living room to leave it dusted and in some semblance of order, and then on to the bedrooms, where she had even changed their sheets- their was something in the air. It felt like Christmas or a visit from their grandparents, but neither of these was happening, so they exchanged troubled glances and moved cautiously about with only token protests to the stranger who had awakened them that morning.”
Response: This passage is an imagery technique. I say this because from reading the passage you can see the confusion on the children’s faces when they saw their mother working diligently towards cleaning the house and making sure they looked nice and presentable before they went to see the community play that they were invited to. Imagery makes the writing better because it gives you another way to understand the writing along with the story better. Imagery is like watching a movie only with words, and the descriptive langue intrigues you more into the story making you enjoy it even more.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” J.K. Rowling Pg 1
"He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look... his jeans were torn and dirty, his t-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles were peeling away from the uppers.”
This passage is an imagery/ sensory detail. Because it forms a picture in your head of what Harry Potter looked like in this chapter. You can really see the attention to detail to this ensemble. Plus, you just tell from hte dirtiness of this outfit, that Harry is miserable.
Passage: “I’d forgotten how very tall the wolves were. Like horses, only thick with muscle and fur. Their teeth like knives, impossible to over look.”
Response: This passage is a simile imprinting a visual picture were Bella describes the wolves's frightening features that have made them good at killing. The first frightening feature is how they are tall like horses and have muscular tone, but adding fur as an added detail of the wolves that covers their body’s. The teeth are also another danger that should be looked upon because it describes them like knives that could go through flesh and bone which serves the wolves for what they usually kill. Without this passage this story would not illustrate these wolves the way they feel to Bella, the way they are in this story. The simile is useful because I could easily had seen them as timid and not very sharp. I choose this passage to comment on the context and simile given by this passage.
Passage: “We’ll make it, she told herself, tumbling the words over in her mind like a mantra.”
Response: This passage demonstrates figurative language because it states that she’s tumbling the words over in her mind. Really, it’s not possible for someone to tumble something in their mind. So it’s definitely figurative. This makes the writing better because it gives you a better idea as to what she’s thinking and how she’s taking the trauma of being lost in the wilderness.
Passage: “Fascinated by the undeniable proof that I was stronger than the strongest vampire I’d ever known, I placed my hand, fingers spread wide, against the rock. Then I dug my fingers slowly into the stone, crushing rather than digging; the consistency reminded me of hard cheese. I ended up with a handful of gravel.”
Response: This passage is showing imagery/ sensory details because it is painting a picture in my mind. I can see in my mind how Bella (the main character) is crushing the rock and how she is fascinated by that. It is also showing imagery/ sensory detail because it appeals to one of my five senses.
Peter and the Starcatchers By: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Pg: 59
“Peter knew he should run, but could not move his legs, could not take his eyes off the airborne rodent now coming through the doorway. When it was about two feet away it seemed to notice him and, moving its right feet in a paddling motion, altered its course to the left, so as to just miss Peter’s head. Riveted to the spot, Peter watched it come, swiveling his head as it drew closer, closer, and …”
This is an example of personification. It’s an effective example of personification because the author says that the rodent is “airborne” meaning that it is flying, and rodents don’t fly. The author states that the rodent was “moving its right feet in a paddling motion”. So basically the rodent is doggie paddling towards the main character Peter.
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A Summer of Kings
Han Nolan
Page # 93
Passage:” I don’t know if he’s wonderful or scary or what.” We were almost to the woods, and I could smell the pines and the clean moist smell of the bark and new leaves on the maples and the poplars.
Response: This is an Imagery/Sensory detail because it is describing what that person smells. They can smell which is showing one of the five senses. It explains what they smell which gives us an insight on what they are sensing.
“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.
“Specials”
By: Scott Westerfeld
Pg.28-29
Passage:
“Ahead, at the border between the Trails and the true wilderness, the two Smokies were already descending, their boards’ magnetic lifters running out of metal. Their skidding descent echoed through the brush, followed by sounds of running feet...She made a finger gesture, and the chips in her hands and brain responded, laying an infrared channel over Tally’s vision. The world was transformed--the snow-patched ground turning a cold blue, the trees emitting soft green halos—every object illuminated by its own heat. A few small mammals stood out, red and pulsing, heads twitching, as if they instinctively knew that something dangerous was nearby. Not far away, a hovering Fausto glowed, his feverish Special –body bright yellow, and Tally’s own hands seemed to course with orange flames.” (pg. 28-29)
Response:
This passage effectively uses sensory language to help the reader descriptively visualize, and a bit of hearing in the passage. It explains the sight of the “snow-patched” ground turning a cold blue. Trees emitting “soft green halos”, and Fausto’s “bright yellow” feverish body. Tally herself thought her hands “seemed” to course with orange flames. It’s descriptively telling how the object is colored. This passage also explains how Tally heard the sound of running feat. This passage effectively gives us the insight of visualization and sound in sensory language.
Literary Luminary: Metaphor.
“deep green: color me jealous” by Melody Carlson. Pg. 11.
Passage:
“And so it went. A regular cat-and-mouse game. But he thought he was the cat pursuing the hard-to-get mouse. Little did he know.”
Response:
This is a metaphor because Jordan (The Main Character) is comparing her and Timothy (The Main Characters newly acquired boyfriend) to a cat and a mouse clichéd action. It’s pretty close to personification however it is not nature being described by doing a human antic, but instead is a human action being compared to an animals action. This is important because this whole cat and mouse metaphor is what starts the dilemma and the actual story, and we all know how much a problem contributes to a story. Jordan has stolen away Timothy and must endure a cheerleader ex-friend who has turned on Jordan, along with her “cronies.” or most of the cheer leading squad. Now she must turn to her one and only best friend, someone who is always there for her. (And you must read the story to know who that is.)
Camp Confidential
Melissa J. Morgan
159
“ The next morning, Jenna stood on the edge of the wooden planks that made up the beginner’s diving pier at the Lakeview lake. The sky was a gorgeous blue with just a few wispy-white clouds. The sun was hot on her shoulders and all around the lake, campers laughed, splashed and squealed, having the time of their lives. Across the water, in the deep end the senior boys and girls were doing relay races while their friends shouted encouragement from the sand. Jenna watched them, wishing she were over there having fun instead of standing over the rippling water, terrified.”
I picked this passage because I can picture Jenna and all the events that are going on. I can picture Jenna sitting out looking at all the other campers having fun. She is on the outside looking in. Imagery is important to this passage because readers can really picture this event. Also because the way imagery is used in the passage really engages reader. I can feel the sun on my shoulders and hear all the other campers laughing , splashing, squealing, and having the time of their lives. Not only does this passage explain how Jenna feels but, it explains what she hears, smells, and sees. In order to fully engaged the reader with imagery you need to use your five senses.
Sister of the Bride
Beverly Clearly
PG# 178
Passage: “She loved San Francisco. The flower stands… the cable cars… the pigeons wheeling over Union Square… the air of excitement.
Response: This is an Imagery technique because Barbara is imagining Union Square and all the things that are there. She can see the flower stands, the cable cars, pigeons, and can smell the air of excitement. This is 2 of the 5 sensory details.
Literary Luminary pg. #202
Passage: “I felt pressed by a huge weight, like every bad minute you had ever had in your life had come back and was inside your chest and just sitting there. It was like having a huge vulture eat at your stomach and being too tired to do anything about it.”
Response: In this part of the story, one of the characters, Pendleton, gets killed by an IED
(Improvised Explosive Device), and the main character, Robin, just finds out here. The way the author writes this simile lets me understand how Robin felt a lot better, since I have never experienced loss before. This really let me imagine the pain that was being felt there. It must have been terrible.
Literary Luminary pg. #202
Passage: “I felt pressed by a huge weight, like every bad minute you had ever had in your life had come back and was inside your chest and just sitting there. It was like having a huge vulture eat at your stomach and being too tired to do anything about it.”
Response: In this part of the story, one of the characters, Pendleton, gets killed by an IED
(Improvised Explosive Device), and the main character, Robin, just finds out here. The way the author writes this simile lets me understand how Robin felt a lot better, since I have never experienced loss before. This really let me imagine the pain that was being felt there. It must have been terrible.
Literary Luminaray: Helpless Pg12
Passage:
“… and we can hear him screamin’ “Andy! Andy! Help me –Oh God please don’t let me die like this! Andy!...” He screamed for what seemed like a long time. Then it was real quiet. All we could hear was flames and little pieces of car sizzlin’ and burnin’…”
Response:
The boy who was helpless in my book was Robbie Washington. Robbie and his friends from the basketball team were drinking and driving and had gotten into a car accident. Robbie felt helpless and was helpless because in the car accident, his feet were stuck in the windshield. When the car caught on fire he was screaming for help. His friends tried to help him but the car exploded. When the car exploded, it threw his friends off of the roof where they were trying to pull Robbie out of the car. Sadly Robbie Washington died
Title: All Q, No A More Tales of a 10th - Grade Social Climber
Author: Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser
Page 119
Quote: “Then, after disembarking at a prewar building on the Upper West Side, I entered a lobby with swirled marble banisters and intricate designs carved into its mahogany ceilings. It was no joke, and neither was the Potasnick pad on the fifteenth floor. I hadn’t seen Boris since our banya expedition, but he greeted me warmly, leading me into a room of ice-skating rink proportions, with wall–size windows and priceless urns on pedestals and paintings with their own lights.”
Response: The literary technique used in the quote above is imagery. This quote helped me imagine the scene, when the authors described the building as a “prewar” building, I imagined an old building, looking as if it was about to fall apart. When they mentioned “swirled marble banisters” it reminded me of marble cake. I also liked how they used the phrase “ice-skating rink proportions” because it was interesting way to describe the room and it almost reminded me of how Bradbury puts interesting words and phrases together to capture the reader’s attention. This literary technique makes the writing better because if the authors had not described the place Mimi was at and what it looked liked inside, I would not be interested in the story because I wouldn’t be able to put myself in Mimi’s position and make connections with the things she does and how she thinks.
Title: All Q, No A More Tales of a 10th - Grade Social Climber
Author: Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser
Page 119
Quote: “Then, after disembarking at a prewar building on the Upper West Side, I entered a lobby with swirled marble banisters and intricate designs carved into its mahogany ceilings. It was no joke, and neither was the Potasnick pad on the fifteenth floor. I hadn’t seen Boris since our banya expedition, but he greeted me warmly, leading me into a room of ice-skating rink proportions, with wall–size windows and priceless urns on pedestals and paintings with their own lights.”
Response: The literary technique used in the quote above is imagery. This quote helped me imagine the scene, when the authors described the building as a “prewar” building, I imagined an old building, looking as if it was about to fall apart. When they mentioned “swirled marble banisters” it reminded me of marble cake. I also liked how they used the phrase “ice-skating rink proportions” because it was a interesting way to describe the room and it almost reminded me of how Bradbury puts interesting words and phrases together to capture the reader’s attention. This literary technique makes the writing better because if the authors had not described the place Mimi was at and what it looked liked inside, I would not be interested in the story because I wouldn’t be able to put myself in Mimi’s position and make connections with the things she does and how she thinks.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
Gisselle Rives
Pg #2
Passage
Like I said, I’ll be famous one day, but for now, I’m stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.
Response
The character trait I choose for Greg (main character) is cockiness. This is because when he calls everyone else a moron, except himself, and he is so sure that he will be famous one day. He thinks that he is too good for middle school and his peers.
When I was Puerto Rican
By Esmeralda Santiago
Pg. 16
Passage:
“I ran to the bittersweet shade of the oregano bushes and wept until my chest hurt, each sob tearing off a layer of the comfort built from my parents’ love, until I was totally alone, defended only by the green, the scent of cooking spices, and the dry, brushed dirt under my feet.”
This passage uses a lot of imagery/sensory details. “I ran to the bittersweet shade of the oregano bushes and wept until my chest hurt” puts a picture in your mind of a little girl running away to go hide in the bushes, which is “see” of the 5 sensory details. She tells us the type of bush, an Oregano bush, so it sets a good visual in our minds. “Defended only by the green” also sets an image that she is hiding in the green bushes or plants. “The scent of the cooking spices” gives us a different way to view the sensory details, using smell. Once again she doesn’t tell us that she “smells the food in the kitchen”, but she tells us that she smells spices, so it’s easier to actually “smell” it. “The dry, brushed dirt under my feet” can be “see”, because you can actually picture the dirt under Esmeralda’s feet, and the brushed look of the dirt or you can describe it as “feel”, because Esmeralda feels the dirt under her feet, and to make it easier to “feel” the brushed dirt. With all the sensory details Esmeralda uses to describe what she went through, you can close your eyes and picture it as though you were there with her.
Abhorsen Garth Nix pg#190
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them---
Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
Abhorsen Garth Nix pg#190
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them---
Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
Abhorsen Garth Nix pg#190
Quote: "Before he could speak, Lieutenant Tindall----who’ moved around behind them---
Said, ”Imposter, sir. O nly I’m not sure what kind. They do bear uncorrupted Charter marks.” Sam stiffen at the word “imposters” and he saw Lirael grab the dog’s collar as she growled, deep and angrily."
Response: I think that the literary Luminary for this paragraph is tone because how they both is surprised at how they find out that they know and I can hear and see their voices and expression as they get afraid. That they are going to kill them.
“Swede Dreams”
By: Eva Apelqvist
Page # 60
Passage: “Calista poured herself a bowl of filmjolk. Then she put cornflakes on top and added a few raisins like Bengt had. She took a bite. It was thick like yogurt, though more tart. Not bad. She helped herself to a piece of hard cracker bread with sweet caviar from a tube, and took the cup of hot coffee Britta handed her. Mm, good. Funny how eating could make you feel so hopeful again.”
Response: This passage is a good example of imagery because I could vividly visualize the exact look of what Calista was eating that day, and having a good picture in my mind of what was happening at that time in the book “Swede Dreams” made me feel more connected to the story. I’m glad that the author chose to make this passage filled with visual details because it is important to know the exact food that could help Calista feel hopeful because without being specific, the readers would forget about how there was hope in her sorrow, and the more emphasis you put on a thought, the more the detail stays in your head and you’ll remember it. In my mind I could see Calista putting her lovely food dish together and taking a bite and being satisfied with her food combination. I could feel the hot coffee cup on my hands as described in the passage. It makes me hungry reading about the food, which means that the author did a good job at using the literary technique of imagery in her wonderful book.
Eldest
Christopher Paolini
Page: 170
Passage: “The scent of flowers was heavy in the air when Eragon woke to be hold a sun drenched Du Weldenvarden.
Response: The author’s use of imagery in this passage is amazing. The part in the text where he says, “The scent of flowers was heavy in the air” was a great use of imagery because instead of saying something like the scent of flowers was strong or the flowers smelled he said the scent was heavy and that is a lot better. This passage makes you smell the heavy scent of flowers and see the sun drenched Du Weldenvarden a lot better.
Literary Luminary
Title:Twilight Horses Author:Emma Raven # of pages:126
Quote:"I was on my best horse and she ran, ran so fast it was like I was flying on a blue jet plane."
Response:This is a simile and its a good use of a literary technique because the simile brings so much life to the little girl, Crystal. It was her passion to be in a race and win. And that was her experience in the simile. The simile shows how she felt, and her passion showed the feeling of "flying on a blue jet plane" shows that the horse was going fast and it made Crystal feel good and alive. So pretty much the simile has good "expressions" to it.
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Peterson
Page #55
Passage: "It was back in the days when nearly every boat on the bay was under sail, before hard blue crabs brought in much money.
Respones: This passage is imagery/sensory detail because it's describing what the bay looks like before the crabs brought in money for the town. Pictureing this in my mind reminds me of when I would practilly spend a whole summer in Panamal City Bay,that's where my grandparents live. This is definitly imagery because when I read this passage it made me stop and day dream of the times spent on the bay. Not only did I picture it in my head but it made me feel happy inside knowing I can connect to the book and still remember the years ago trip to as I used to call it'Grandma's Bay'. This technique really makes the writing better because it creates a visuial image in my mind and makes me want ingage more in the text.
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate Dicamillo
Page # 11
Passage: “Where are my babies?” said the exhausted mother when the ordeal was through. “Show me my babies.”
The father mouse held the one small mouse up high.
“There is only this one,” he said. “The others are dead.”
“Mon Dieu, just the one mouse baby?
“Just the one. Will you name him?”
“All of that work for nothing,” said the mother. She sighed. “It is such a disappointment.
Responses: I think this passage gives a great example of irony. Irony is what you don’t expect to happen, and I didn’t expect the mother to be so ungrateful. The mother’s attitude showed she was not proud of her one baby, instead she showed the exact opposite. The mother was clearly unappreciative that just one of her offspring made it; and we know that she doesn’t when she states, “All that work for nothing”.
What if… Everyone Knew Your Name
By Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James
Pg. # 17
Passage:
“Haley was still choking on the convertible’s exhaust fumes when a dingy yellow bus rounded the corner and stopped in front of her driveway. A pair of grafitied glass doors opened. Bracing herself, Haley stepped inside.
“This isn’t the bus for Hillsdale, is it?” she gasped, looking around at the sea of misfits.”
Response:
This passage utilizes the literary technique sensory details. I quote the beginning of the first line:
“Haley was still choking on the convertible’s exhaust fumes…”
In this statement the reader can almost feel how intoxicating the fumes were, and that they were strong enough for her to still feel the foul gas. In this line the reader gets a real feel for Haley’s misery. And as the passage continues, Haley’s discomfort only grows. Why is this literary technique important to the passage? Well for starters sensory details lets the reader feel through their senses the overall passage and tone. You can really feel how overwhelmed Haley is. I quote:
“Bracing herself, Haley stepped inside.”
And by the end of reading those sentences you, as a reader are bracing yourself as well as Haley, while she steps inside.
title: Fight Club
Author: Chuck Palaniuk
page# 118
Passage- "It's in the newspaper today how somebody broke into offices between the tenth and fifteenth floors of the Hein Tower, and climbed out the office windows, and painted the south side of the building with a grinning five-story mask, and set fires so the window at the center of each huge eye blazed huge and alive and inescapable over the city at dawn."
Response- This passage uses allusion; meaning a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature. In the passage it states an important event of a break-in in the Hein Tower. Another thing that shows that this literary luminary is allusion is that is is reported in the newspaper. The criminal written about had broken into the Hein Tower, climbed out of the office wondows, and then painted graffiti on the southside of the building. On top of that, the criminal also started a fire. This event would be a reference to an allusion.
"Inkspell" Cornelia Funke pg.181
Passage: "His limbs were not entirely colorless, like those of the glass people who had lived in Elinor's garden. Everything about him was pale pink, like the flowers of a wild rose"
Response: This passage effectively uses similes to compare the glass man both to the glass people in her aunts' garden and a wild rose to describe what he looks like. This helps make the writing better by changing the way someone would picture a glass man because usually we would see it as blue or completely see-through, and that is even how I pictured it before I read that he was pink, Cornelia Funke puts a twist on it and makes it even more make believe than it already is. And this is a good example of her creativity and the fun she has with her writing. In both of the Inheart books, she has used great imagination and the stories are very fairy tale like. This is an example of some of the unusual creatures she uses in her stories. This passage make the story more fairy tale like, the way it is supposed to be, and it makes the book that much more enjoyable.
Literary Luminary Pg# 122
Imagery
Passage:
“The children followed her bewildering behavior with freshly combed and brushed heads. They had never seen their mother so active. The feelings had begun after breakfast when she took their plates from the table, washed and stacked them, and swept the kitchen floor before moving into the living room to leave it dusted and in some semblance of order, and then on to the bedrooms, where she had even changed their sheets- their was something in the air. It felt like Christmas or a visit from their grandparents, but neither of these was happening, so they exchanged troubled glances and moved cautiously about with only token protests to the stranger who had awakened them that morning.”
Response:
This passage is an imagery technique. I say this because from reading the passage you can see the confusion on the children’s faces when they saw their mother working diligently towards cleaning the house and making sure they looked nice and presentable before they went to see the community play that they were invited to. Imagery makes the writing better because it gives you another way to understand the writing along with the story better. Imagery is like watching a movie only with words, and the descriptive langue intrigues you more into the story making you enjoy it even more.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
J.K. Rowling
Pg 1
"He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look... his jeans were torn and dirty, his t-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles were peeling away from the uppers.”
This passage is an imagery/ sensory detail. Because it forms a picture in your head of what Harry Potter looked like in this chapter. You can really see the attention to detail to this ensemble. Plus, you just tell from hte dirtiness of this outfit, that Harry is miserable.
(Literary luminary: The wolves characteristics)
Eclipse
Stephenie Meyer
pg#392
Passage: “I’d forgotten how very tall the wolves were. Like horses, only thick with muscle and fur. Their teeth like knives, impossible to over look.”
Response: This passage is a simile imprinting a visual picture were Bella describes the wolves's frightening features that have made them good at killing. The first frightening feature is how they are tall like horses and have muscular tone, but adding fur as an added detail of the wolves that covers their body’s. The teeth are also another danger that should be looked upon because it describes them like knives that could go through flesh and bone which serves the wolves for what they usually kill. Without this passage this story would not illustrate these wolves the way they feel to Bella, the way they are in this story. The simile is useful because I could easily had seen them as timid and not very sharp. I choose this passage to comment on the context and simile given by this passage.
Literary Luminary: Figurative Language Pg. 123
Passage: “We’ll make it, she told herself, tumbling the words over in her mind like a mantra.”
Response: This passage demonstrates figurative language because it states that she’s tumbling the words over in her mind. Really, it’s not possible for someone to tumble something in their mind. So it’s definitely figurative. This makes the writing better because it gives you a better idea as to what she’s thinking and how she’s taking the trauma of being lost in the wilderness.
Breaking Dawn
Stephanie Meyer
page 521
Passage: “Fascinated by the undeniable proof that I was stronger than the strongest vampire I’d ever known, I placed my hand, fingers spread wide, against the rock. Then I dug my fingers slowly into the stone, crushing rather than digging; the consistency reminded me of hard cheese. I ended up with a handful of gravel.”
Response: This passage is showing imagery/ sensory details because it is painting a picture in my mind. I can see in my mind how Bella (the main character) is crushing the rock and how she is fascinated by that. It is also showing imagery/ sensory detail because it appeals to one of my five senses.
Peter and the Starcatchers
By: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Pg: 59
“Peter knew he should run, but could not move his legs, could not take his eyes off the airborne rodent now coming through the doorway. When it was about two feet away it seemed to notice him and, moving its right feet in a paddling motion, altered its course to the left, so as to just miss Peter’s head. Riveted to the spot, Peter watched it come, swiveling his head as it drew closer, closer, and …”
This is an example of personification. It’s an effective example of personification because the author says that the rodent is “airborne” meaning that it is flying, and rodents don’t fly. The author states that the rodent was “moving its right feet in a paddling motion”. So basically the rodent is doggie paddling towards the main character Peter.
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