Today in class we mined the text for different kinds of figurative language and elements -
similes, metaphors, personsification, alliteration, characterization and irony.
Post your example here...
Write the quote with the page number and briefly explain why it works as what it is...
example:
"Far away somebody was playing a mouth organ; the music slitehred over the cane fields and into the pine grove; it spiraled around the tree trunks and mixed itself with the scent, so Cholly couldn't tell the difference between the sound and the odor that hung about the heads of the people" (p.135)
Personification - the music is slithering and spiraling... physically... you can see it moving instead of just hearing the sound. It comes alive and there is no difference anymore as it circles the trees. I love the idea of the music being visible and enveloping the world. Music for me does funciton in this way, so I can really get a sense of it when I read.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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