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Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
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Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing.Example: "She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa."
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"She muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth.
Juana is referring to Mary, a bible character
Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds. Example: "The cat sat on the mat."
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Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration. Example: "My backpack weighs a ton!"
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"It was as large as a sea gulls egg. It was the greatest pearl in the world."
The pearl was probably not the largest or greatest pearl in the world.
Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses. Example: "The pitter-patter of the rain against the window."
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"The lowest step, where the stream collected before it tumbled down a hundred feet and disappeared into the rubbly desert, was a little platform of stone and sand.
The author creates a image of a majestic waterfall without saying so.
Metaphor: A comparison when one becomes the other. Example: "The book was a passport to adventure."
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"His strength and his movement and his speed were a machine."
Kino is not a machine but a human being. The author says this to describe his movements as being precise and robotic.
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"And the rhythm of the family song was the grinding stone where Juana worked the corn for the morning cakes."
The family songs rhythm is not a grinding stone but in Kino's mind it is.
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"Above , the surface of water was a green mirror."
The water is not a mirror
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"Behind him Juana's fire leaped into flame and threw spears of light..."
Fire cannot leap or throw spears of light.
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"Her face was hard annd lined and leathery."
Her face was not made of leather.
Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning. Example: "The bees buzzed."
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"The roosters had been crowing for some time."
Crowing is the sound a rooster makes.
Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things. Example: "Her stomach growled."
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"Kino and Juana watched it go, winking and glimmering under the setting sun."
Pearls cannot blink because they are not living.
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"And the music of the pearl drifited to a whisper and disappeared."
Pearls cannot whispe because it is not human.
Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as." Example: "She floated in like a cloud."
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"Their legs moved a little jerkily like well made wooden dolls..."
This is a simile because the author compares Kino's and Juana's legs to a wooden doll.
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"The great pearl pearl, perfect as the moon."
The pearl is compared to the beautiful moon.
Symbol: Representation of somehting complex, general, or abstract. Example: "The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal."
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Her voice trembled a little. Go with God, she said."
Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
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Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing.Example: "She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa."
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Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds.
Example: "The cat sat on the mat."
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Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration.
Example: "My backpack weighs a ton!"
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Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses.
Example: "The pitter-patter of the rain against the window."
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Metaphor: A comparison when one becomes the other.
Example: "The book was a passport to adventure."
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Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example: "The bees buzzed."
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Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
Example: "Her stomach growled."
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Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as."
Example: "She floated in like a cloud."
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Symbol: Representation of somehting complex, general, or abstract.
Example: "The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal."
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good example of figurative language