Old Men Forevar!

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Welcome to the OLD MEN CLUB. You better be an old man. Or we'll kick your muffin top. LAWL.
Club Members:
Katie Na!
Mallory Godwin!
Secretary and Treasurer and your mom: Jenay Lapeyrolerie.............



This is a fantastic picture of Katie when she was a baby.
Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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49	"...and the whispering went back through the crowd."	Whispering and went both start with the same sound.
49	"...slipped silently into the dealer's lap."	Slipped and silently both start with the same sound.
5	"The scorpion moved delicately down the rope..."	Delicately and down both start with the same sound.
18	"Kino saw a ghostly gleam and then the shell closed down."	Ghostly and gleam both start with the same sound.
1	"The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east."	Stars, still, and shone all start with the same sound.

Katie rocks everybody's socks.

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

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73	"Kino lay as rigid as the tree limb."	Kino is being compared to a specific tree limb.

Katie is cooler than Janet and Mallory.

Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds.
Example: "The cat sat on the mat."

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Katie is awesome.


Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration.
Example: "My backpack weighs a ton!"

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19	"It was the greatest pearl in the world."	To call a pearl "the GREATEST" is an exaggeration.

Katie is amazing.

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

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1	"The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.
39	"The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.
27	"The little flames danced on the faces of the neighbors."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.
1	"Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.
10	"His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh..."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.
62	"Smoke of the first fires seeped out through the walls of the brush houses, and the first smell of cooking corn-cakes was in the air."	This quote describes the scene well, and gives the reader a good visualization.

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

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1	"Her dark eyes made little reflected stars."	This quote compares her eyes to stars without using 'like' or 'as'.

KATIE IS THE BEST.
Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example: "The bees buzzed."

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15	"...the canoe creased the water and hissed with speed."	'Hissed' is a word that suggests it's meaning.

Katie is so hip.
Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
Example: "Her stomach growled."

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2	"Behind him Juana's fire leaped into flame and threw spears of light through the chinks of the brush-house wall and threw a wavering square of light out the door."	Fire cannot leap or throw.
66	"The wind screamed over the Gulf..."	Wind cannot scream
8	"And the yellow sun threw their black shadows ahead of them so that they walked on their own shadows."	The sun cannot throw.
49	"the coin stumbled over a knuckle and slipped silently into the dealer's lap."	Coins cannot stumble.
8	"...inner cool gardens where a little water played..."	Water cannot play.
21	"A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet."	A town cannot have a nervous system, head, shoulders, or feet.
23	"The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it."	Towns do not have poison sacs, and cannot swell or puff.

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

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34	"He scattered the old women like chickens."	This quote compares women and chicken using 'like'.
7	"In the canoe she was like a strong man."	This quote compares Juana to a strong man using 'like'.
19	"It was as large as a seagull's egg."	This quote compares the pearl and an egg using 'as'.
7	"She looked up at him, her eyes as cold as the eyes of a lioness."	This quote compares Juana's eyes to the eyes of a lioness using 'as'.
59	"He hissed at her like a snake..."	This quote compares Kino hissing to a snake using 'like'.
11	"...eight small misshapen seed pearls, as ugly and gray as little ulcers."	This quote compares ugly pearls to ulcers using 'as'.
16	"The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells..."	This quote compares oyster ruffles to skirts using 'like'.
21	"A town is a thing like a colonial animal."	This quote compares a town to a colonial animal using 'like'.
23	"...the black distillate was like a scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld."	This quote compares black distillate with a scorpion, hunger with the smell of food, and loneliness with withheld love using 'like'.

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

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Katie the icing on the cake that is the world.