Savvy Ch1-37 – Figurative language – Flashcards
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Allusion
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references to Wizard of Oz
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personification
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My heart leaped at the thought of getting to Salina
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idiom
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We'd all lost our appetites, ... I've gone and lost my senses too.
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Allusion
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Prince Charming
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Flashback
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I remembered Bobbi mimicking her mother over meatloaf at the dinner table
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simile
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Bobbi, Will, and Fish all sauntered into the room looking like a bunchh of cats who'd just finished feasting
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mood
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The characters are relieved because Bobbi and Mibs plan for calling the parents worked out.
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Imagery
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The artificial plants lining the room rustled their dusty leaves in the drafts, and fake ficus trees and parlor palms tipped over the wet floor.
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foreshadowing
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"you never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen.
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Flashback
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last paragraph when mibs is recalling Grandma Dollops' funeral
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imagery
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But when that preacher reached his last Amen, sorrow and grief unleashed the savvy of young and old alike. Lightning struck a nearby tree. A swarm of dragonflies and bumblebees filled the air above the casket, dancing and darting like an array of living fireworks. The grass beneath our feet grew thick and tall and the flowers in bud opened up to bloom, filling the air with a heady fragrance. The underground sprinklers came on like fountains, surrounding us all in a grand display of seemingly choreographed plumes and jets of waltzing water, yet not a single drop fell down upon the mourners.
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personification
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the earth was yawning and stretching here, turning green at the toes of the brown and broken stalks of last year's harvest
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alliteration
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silly shilly-shally
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onomatopoeia
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thumping thumping
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simile
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His right shoulder began to jerk up and down like he was trying to keep a persistent bird or bee from landing on his shoulder.
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Idiom
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"What's Lester still doing with all these rotten kids?"
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personification
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Rhonda's voice came spilling back into my head
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Rhonda's voice came spilling like vinegar
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idiom
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We'd all lost our appetites
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idiom
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I've gone and lost my senses too
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idiom
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The last thing I wanted was to get Lester and Lill into any hot water
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allusion
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I suppose you never can tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside
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flashback
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I remembered Bobbi mimicking her mother over meatloaf at the dinner table the night before and how she'd sounded just like Miss Rosemary
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simile
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Bobbi, Will, and Fish all sauntered into the room , looking like a bunch of cats who'd just finished feasting on an entire flock of canaries
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mood
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"Nobody?" said Lill in her little voice. "Well, all right then. why don't y'all sit tight and watch some TV until I get back." Lill moved to pick up the remote control from teh desk by the telephone, but Fish jumped up and grabbed it before she could reach it..
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The artificial plants lining the room rushled their dusty leaves in the draft, and fake ficus trees and parlor palms tipped over thig
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foreshadowing
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"you never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen."
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"There in the cemetary, Grandma had been laid to rest surrounded by flowers and friends
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But when that preacher reached his last Amen, sorrow and grief unleashed the saavy of a young and old alike. Lightening must strike a tree. Aswarm of dragonflies and bumble bees filled the air above the casket, dnacing and dartin like an array of living fireworks.
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flashback
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There were words like dream and words like freedom that lingered in the air in the voices of women, men, and children.
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The earth was yawning and stretching here, turning green at the toes at the brown and broken stalks of last year's harvest.
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idiom
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What's Lester still doing wiht all these rotten kids"
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personification
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Rhonda's voice came spilling back into my head like vinegar
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Allusion
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It gave me teh heebie-Jeebies to watch Sampson and Bobbie disappear into the house as though they were
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oxymoron
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A shocked silence stopped up the room
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simile
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like a heavenly avenger over the small woman.
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analogy
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Will and an angel
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allusion
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Glenda the Good witch
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assonance
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Squiggles and doodles wiggled and jiggled
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metaphor
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just a nasty, rotten apple.
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consonance
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hubba bubba
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allusion
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With one last look at her extraordinary family, Momma pushed the door to Poppa's room all the way open and we filed in quietly to find Poppa resting looking nothing at all like sleeping beauty.
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Life takes a turn and you can't step back
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Not everything is the best but you make it your own
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Our swing wasn't the World's Largest like the one up in Hebron, nor was it the World's Prettiest. It wasn't even close. But sitting there with Poppa, just thinking and listening as we watched the clouds roll by, I knew our swing was the World's Best.
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idiom
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idiom I could feel Fish's older brother eyes burning through me.
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personification
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personification ...that big purple flower tickled my cheek
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idiom
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idiom He struck me as a fellow whose gears might turn a bit slower than those of other folks, a man whose thinking cap had gotten shrunk in the wash and now fit his brain a notch too tight,
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imagery
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The itty bitty town of Bee, Nebraska was just about the size of a yellow striped bumble bee
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onomotopoea/personification
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It could buzz right by you if you blinked to slow
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imagery
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imagery There was only one church in Bee. It was built boxy and angled like an accordian, but the windows of the church were dark, and the doors were locked up tight
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idiom
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Those two gals picked me, they were so sour
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personification
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an ensemble of crickets began warming up their evening act
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Imagery
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" As my brother's pressure system grew, the windows closest to Fish began to fracture, spreading splintering cracks outward like spiderwebs zipping and pinging through the glass as Fish's gusts and gales swelled in speed and strength
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I tried making a deal with God. I vowed that I would eat my green beans without complaint, I'd be a good person, and I'd never take more than one half of a powdered sugar donut after Sunday school ever, ever again. If only I could stop hearing voices when someone nearby had ink on their skin - especially voices that insisted on sharing secrets and feelings others preferred to keep hid.
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idiom
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deep-fried pickle of a situation was all my fault
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idiom
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I could feel Bobbie eyes on me, trying to dissect me like a splayed and gutted frog
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personification
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making the bus lurch and groan as he got us back onto the highway
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flashback
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On that day of the street carnival, Poppa still knew nothing about savvy-folk like Momma and Dinah. He and his navy buddies were on leave and having a fine time strutting around in their sailor uniforms, whistling at all the girls, But the moment Poppa saw Momma, he was smitten; Poppa knew a perfect girls when he saw one."
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They met at the ring toss game. Momma hadn't wanted to play, insisting to Dinah that it was hardly fair - she knew she could toss a ring onto a lurching moving peg perfectly every time and didn't htink it was right to flaunt her savvy in such a public way, or in such a public place...."
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The day Poppa asked Granpa Bomba and GrandmaDollop for their blessing to marry Momma was the day he learned that some folks aren't exactly what you might expect. That was the day that Grandpa Bomba made Poppa and Momma six acres of land on which to build a house - shifting all of their new neighbors east and west - and Grandma Dollop caut the young couple o love song in a jar so that they could listen to it whenever they liked. Momma and poppa always kept that jar up on the mantel, lossening the lid now and again to let the never-ending song fill the house."
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Turning on the bus's flashing red lights, Lester leaned on the lever that extended the bus's stop sign - stalling the few cars traveling on the same lonesome highway. Then he opened the squealing door, stood up without a single word or glance back in our direction, tucked his shirt down into his overalls, and waked off the bus.
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foreshadowing
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Lill smiled. "Then I should fit right in."
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personification
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sorry excuse for a car gurgled and gargled and choked on its last drop of gasoline, then died
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As we drose on and on through the dark, I told Lill at length about my poppa and how he'd bought me my dress, not giving up until he'd found me just the one. 0 how he'd handed it to me in a big white box tied shut with stretchy gold elastic that made it feel extraspecial. my heart ached as I told her about the Worlds Largest Porch Swing and aboutthe accident on the and the cars starcked up like Sunday p pancakes...
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oxymoron
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devil-tailed angel
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idiom
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What's when I saw something that made me jump nearly out of my skin
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imagery
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imagery I stopped on the edge of teh parking lot behind the Emeral Truch stop where teh alley fed out inot the street. Past a rank Cumpser surrounded by mounds of overstuffed trash bags, ...
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idiom
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my heart came close to bursting
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I felt as though someone had punched me in the stomack and pulled out all of my bones, turning me into queasy, useless blob of Jello
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idiom
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Inside the diner, there were so many people you couldn't stir them with a stick
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Imagery
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Pushed back into the middle of all those chaotic, noisy voices, I tried my best to keep from becoming discombobultated tried to figure out how to scumble those thunderous throughs
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I stayed as close to the edge of the room as I could, next to the long dining counte
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alliteration
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jingle jangle
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analogy
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I was a mouse and she was a cat
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onomotopeia
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Ragged shreds of plastic sheeting whipped and snapped
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personification
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personification came a spatter of biting rain that hit the side of the bus
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personification
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flour tickling my nose
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Grandma's was a funeral like no other. Momma and Aunt Dinah had sat like sturdy bookends on either side of Grandpa Bomba, with their arms linked tightly through his, supporting him as the preacher said his words and prayers. Law, Ingrid (2008-05-01). Savvy (p. 230). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
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idiom
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The worry etched deep into all his wrinkles
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consonance
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missy pissy
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mood
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anxiety about the Mibs' savvy, dad waking up, jars being touched
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personification
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-And although Grandpa had gone to bed as well, every now and then the ground would rumble and the floor would shake as though the earth below us had a bellyache.
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pun
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as grave as a tombstone
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idiom
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laced up a bit tight
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idiom
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a little bird told me
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idiom
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Miss Rosemary shot Bobbi a look of sheer ice that thawed into an apologetic smile as she looked at me
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pun
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Rocket had got his savvy and it was a shocker.
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Allusion
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Will Junior said to Bobbie as if "God Almighty"
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personification
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Seeing Bobbi's tattoo move. Hearing Bobbi's tattoo speak. What had it said?" She's really very lonely, you know."
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foreshadowing
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"I didn't like the way Ashley kept staring at Will, or the way her staring at him bothered me"
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onomatopoeia
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"I heard a thumb, thump, thump..."
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idiom
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The woory etched deep into all his wrinkles
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idiom
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Miss Rosemary shot Bobbi a lokk of sheer ice that thawed into an apologetic smile as she looked back at me.
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I sat perfectly still, straining my eyes out across the dim room, the morning light shifting orange from pink , casting a pastel glow across Momma's stacks of paintings and glinting off the glass aquarium of Samson's dead pet turtle.
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There in that tank, Samson's turtle was not dead so much as living trying it's unsuccessful best to find a way up the side of the glass.
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foreshadowing
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Red and orange crepe paper streamers hung sagging aound the fellowship hall as though left over from another party. Aside form a large chocolate cake with no sugar roses and not a single candle, dripping or otherwise, and a small stack of hastily purchased gifts, the room was empty.
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foreshadowing
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"Roger! I need your help!" The woman's voice was growing shrill. I could tell things were going to get far worse for us Beaumont kids than they'd been that time that Fish and Rocket had spilled red punch all over the carpet in the fellowship hall.
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allusion
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God had his eye on me afterall.
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foreshadowing
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"Don't you think one state trooper in the family's enough?"
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idiom
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lines already drawn on its face like all my grandpa's wrinkles.
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allusion to Wizard of Oz
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It's just that it hadn't yet crossed my mind to pray for Poppa, and again I felt selfish and shamed and bad enough to have a house come land PLOP down on me, leaving nothing but my feet sticking out; that's just Law, Ingrid (2008-05-01). Savvy (p. 26). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
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assonance
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moody broody
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allusion
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yellow bricks to guide
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alliteration
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sour and shimmying shudder,
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alliteration
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Loosening his lip-lock with Lill,
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allusion
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Momma pushed the door to Poppa's room all the way open, and we filed in quietly to find Poppa resting, looking nothing at all like Sleeping Beauty. Law, Ingrid (2008-05-01). Savvy (p. 321). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
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heart (someone can be soft and strong at the same time)
