The sky was a dusky purple overhead, stars scattered over its canvas like frozen tears.
SIMILE
Your yellow yarn waved wildly in the wind.
ALLITERATION
Keep your eyes peeled.
IDIOM
The repetition of the beginning sounds of two or more words
ALLITERATION
I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of exhausted pigeon.
METAPHOR
"Barb takes a SLURP of her tea and goes on" (Van Pelt 15).
ONOMATOPOEIA
Her hair was a fiery tangle around her shoulders.
METAPHOR
What are the THREE main authors' purposes?
PERSUADE, INFORM, ENTERTAIN
An author's or speaker's feelings, revealed through word choice and details included.
TONE
"It was meant as a joke, but the words spray out like acid" (Van Pelt).
SIMILE
Summer is certainly dragging its feet this year.
PERSONIFICATION
Tova's Scandinavian roots, so kind in her youth, had turned on her as she aged.
PERSONIFICATION
Beatrice slid to the floor and hugged her knees. Her gown poufed up around her in a sea of petticoats and flounces.
METAPHOR
Beatrice missed her father most in the mornings. Once the day began and she was pulled in a million different directions, the pain of missing him subsided to a dull ache.
HYPERBOLE
A phrase or expression that does not make sense LITERALLY
IDIOM
The entire world seemed to fall still.
HYPERBOLE
It's raining cats and dogs.
IDIOM
Tova's water glass clinks as it hits the counter.
ONOMATOPOEIA
The tower of tea towels threatens to topple as Tova adds another to the top.
PERSONIFICATION
Cool your jets.
IDIOM
"His thick voice is like something out of a mob movie, so Italian and Brooklynn that it sounds almost comical here in Central California" (Van Pelt 97).
SIMILE
"There was no trace of the stubborn, proud girl who'd been Daphne's best friend. Her eyes were pools of darkness, her features impassive" (McGee 231).
METAPHOR
She felt that she had gained and lost the world in a single morning.
HYPERBOLE
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