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"Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl."
simile
"... the far curtain of the insulated air,..."
metaphor
In Mississippi Solo, the writer considered the river to be...
friend
As the snow fell, the forest wrapped itself in a white blanket and went to sleep.
personification
The tips of the trees bent way over...like fishing rods hooked on a big one."
simile
The trees swooshed loudly..."
Onomatopoeia
"rain came and poured down bucketfuls."
personification
"slanted in a sharp edge"
alliteration
"The river sloshed over the side."
onomatopoeia
"Water streamed straight down and the wind shifted as the storm..."
alliteration
"...enveloping me like a cocoon..."
simile
"It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so _____ that I could not put my finger on it." (light and airy)
ethereal avalanche splintery
"No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a _______ crakcle of lightning." (to break up)
splintery insulate ethereal
My first thought was to shed a shirt and stay cool, but when I passed through the far curtain of the _______ air, I knew I had better do just the opposite." (to keep heat from passing through)
insulate avalance ethereal
"I could see the rainstorm forming off in the distance but swirling rapidly toward me like a dark gray _______. (mass of snow, ice, dirt falling quickly down the side of a mountain)
insulate ethereal avalanche
How do you know this text is a memoir?
Because it uses first-person pronouns
