Extra Credit
Similes
* "The vehicle was crunched and tosses upside down, like a cockroach, its front end smashed into the railing of the bridge." * "On the horizon, she could see a vast expanse of gray altocumulus clouds with small ridges underneat like fish scales." * "Her eyes were as brown as bark . Death was the greater level." * "His few remaining hairs were as white as his coller and had been meticulously spun around his head like a shellacked halo." * "The wind was gusting from the north now, and big cauliflower clouds filled the sky, making it one of those rare afternoons in New England, impossibly crisp and fresh, like a Rome apple from Brooksby Farm." * " |
Personification
* "All he could see were shapes moving in the distance, solids in the fluid of night."
* "Bella Hooper was sitting in the sun on an aluminium lawn chair with a hand-painted sign propped next to her advertising "The Women Who Listens"." * "Will do, and try not to break hearts while I'm gone." "Back then she was known as Ruthless Ruth, the terror of Marblehead High, renownedfor ruining grade-point averages with her evil pop quizzes and impossible final exams." * "It was closing time, and Charlie zoomed the utility cart up and down the narrow paths, taking the turns like a grand-prix racer. In his early days on foot, it had taken more than an hour to cover all the acres, looking for mourners lost in thought, picnickers asleep on the lawns, teenagers hiding behind headstones". * "A thirty-foot wall of water crashed into the cockpit, knowcking Tess from her foot cleats and sweeping her into her lifelines. she gasped for air as the cold ocean wrapped itself around her, sucking her to the brink of oblivion, and then, thank God, her harness and jack line held fast". * "Tess didn't worry about the blistering wind, the confuesed sea, or the salt stinging her eyes." * "All night, the crests had been breaking into spiingrift, but now they were toppling, tumbling, and rolling over." * "They came in all shapes and for every reason~~~ a crothety lobsterman who drowned in a squall, a college football linebacker felled by sunstroke, a frazzled hairdresses who slipped on some hair clippings and snapped her neck~~~ but they each shared one telltale trait: they shimmered with an aura of warmth and light." * "Stairway to Heaven." * "His dimple danced on one cheek, and the cake itself seemed miniture in his large hands." |
Otamatapeia* "Thwak."
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Allusions*Psalms 23
* Ecclesiates *Walker, Texas Ranger. *Corner Shop *Wilco * Magnetic Fields * Hollywood Town Hall *Vale of Serenity *Nephology- Scientific study of clouds. *Optical Illusion- When your eyes play tricks on you. |