Half and Half

Members: Chandana, Harsh, Victoria, and Jordan. The Name: We are split in half, with half smart and half weird. Jordan likes drinking half-and-half, so he okayed this name. Harsh okayed it because he is half weird, but it rounds up, so he's one of the weird kids. Chandana okayed it because it "symbolizes the group very well." Finally, Victoria okayed the name because it sounded cool, even though she doesn't like half-and-half, like Jordan does, or milk, aside from cereal and ice cream.

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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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5	"Kino stood perfectly still."	There are repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of the words stood and still.

Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing.Example: "She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa."

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68	..."and found the rutted sand road that led through the brushy country toward Loreto where the miraculous Virgin has her station."	This is comparing the town of Loreto to the Virgin Mary as a safe town where they can fix their lives.

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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59	"It meant that he was half insane and half god"	When Juana was comparing Kino to half god, she was saying that he thought he could do anything, because no one can be half god.
80	"From the step they could look out over the sun- beaten desert..."	This is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration to say "The sun- beaten desert" since a sun can't actually beat a desert.

Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses.
Example: "The pitter-patter of the rain against the window."

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5-6	"Then, snarling, Kino had it in his fingers, rubbing it to a paste in his hands. He threw it down and beat it in to the earth floor with his fist..."	The picture is created in your head, and you can see the scorpion being rubbed in to paste, slowing all flattened and squished.
6	"The little hole was slightly enlarged and its edges whitened from the sucking , but the red swelling extending farther around the lymphatic mound.	This sentence lets the reader picture perfectly what was happening to the area where the scorpion bit Coyotito, using the adjective words.

Metaphor: A comparison when one becomes the other.
Example: "The book was a passport to adventure."

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62	"He was an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he loved only to preserve himself and his family"	Kino is being compared to the scorpion with no "like or "as" and he is becoming the other(an animal).
1	"Her dark eyes made little reflected stars."	"Dark eyes" are compared to "reflected stars" without like or an as.

Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example: "The bees buzzed."

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1	"... a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings"	The words chittered and flurried suggest the meaning and sound in your head.

Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
Example: "Her stomach growled."

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79	"...for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it."	Air can't be thirsty or drink like humans can.
27	"The little flames danced on the faces of the neighbors."	Fire can't dance like humans can.
10	"The glaring sun threw the bunched, showed of the people..."	This personification is a good example because people can throw items but a sun can't throw things.

Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as."
Example: "She floated in like a cloud."

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59	"Kino looked down at her and his teeth were barred. He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher."	It has two similes. One, Kino is being compared to a snake's action. Two, Juana's action is being compared to a sheep.
88	"She was as remote and as removed as Heaven."	This is comparing Juana's remoteness and as removed "Heaven" using the word "as."

Symbol: Representation of somehting complex, general, or abstract.
Example: "The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal."

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2	"In Kino's heard there was a song now, clear and soft ... he would have called it the Song of the Family."	This example of figurative language represents symbolism when it is stated about "the Song of the Family": a symbol.