Hatchet Figurative Language – Ms. Davis – Flashcards
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The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane'....
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The pilot seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane. (pg. 3)
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Brian went back to looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes. (pg. 5)
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He would normally have said no, that it looked too hokey to have a hatchet on your belt. ( p. 5)
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Those were the normal things he would say, but her voice had a sound like something thin that would break if you touched it. (p. 9 )
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Now a jolt took him like a hammerblow; so forcefully that he seemed to crush back into the seat. (p. 10)
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The plane did not dive, but the nose went down slightland the down-angel increased the speed... (pg. 14)
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For a second, all he heard was the whusssh of the empty air waves. (pg. 19)
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Brian felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky. ( p. 21)
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The skin was cold, hard, death cold. ( pg. 24)
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Between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, the engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died. (pg. 25)
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The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide that ate altitude, and suddenly there weren't any lakes (pg. 26)
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It slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground - all like a picture (p. 28)
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Not twenty feet to his right, leaning out over the water were birches and he stood looking at them for a full half-minute before they registered on his mind. They were beautiful white and bark like clean, slightly speckled paper.
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The red glow moved from the sparks themselves into the bark, moved and grew and became worms, glowing red worms that crawled up the bark hairs and caught other threads of bark and grew until there was a pocket of red as big as a quarter, a glowing red coal of heat.
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. I have a friend, he thought - I have a friend now. A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire.
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He reached into the nest and pulled the eggs out one at a time. There were seventeen of them, each as round as a ball, and white.
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From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life.
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Sparks flew so heavily that some of them skittered and jumped on the sand beneath the rock and died immediately.
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