"Water streamed straight down and the wind shifted as the storm..."
alliteration
"slanted in a sharp edge"
alliteration
"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
"The river sloshed over the side."
onomatopoeia
What two things are being compared in this simile? "Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl.
Clouds and batter
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
How do you know this text is a memoir?
Because it uses first-person pronouns
"...enveloping me like a cocoon..."
simile
The tips of the trees bent way over...like fishing rods hooked on a big one."
simile
"Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl."
simile
"rain came and poured down bucketfuls."
personification
"... the far curtain of the insulated air,..."
metaphor
As the snow fell, the forest wrapped itself in a white blanket and went to sleep.
personification
In Mississippi Solo, the writer considered the river to be...
friend
"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
"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
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