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Welcome to the Official Page of the Ultra Super Flying Irish Wristwatch Dolphin Monkey Nuke Friend Band.

Current members:

Christine "Tater Salad" Strahan

Christine "Tater Salad" Strahan was born in 1860 BC to a pair of dental floss farmers in Popcorn, Indiana. Christine moved to the moon at age 3, and grew up there till age 356. In 1504 BC Christine moved to Liverwurst, England in pursuit of a job as a garden gnome expert. She lived there for a few thousand years, until 1996, where she fooled an innocent family into believing she was their child. She now is in middle school, getting her "higher education."

Meagan "The crazy loud Spaz" Patton

Meagan "The Quiet Spaz" Patton was born in 6045 AD to a pair of Whataburger employees in Narwhal, Kansas. She practiced time travel frequently as a child, and at age 7 she traveled back in time to 2003 AD. A nice family adopted her and cloned a twin for her so she wouldn't be lonely. However, something went horribly wrong and it came out a boy. His name is Mitchell. She now goes to middle school to educate herself on the ways of the twenty-first century child. So be afraid. Very afraid.


Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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56	"She seized a stone..."	The repeating sounds of this quote thus give it away as an alliteration.
1	"The stars still shone..."	^ ^

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

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15	"The minds of the people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf."	It compares the minds of the people to the Gulf, which is a specific place.

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

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35	"'Kino has found the Pearl of the World!'"	"Pearl" rhymes with "World"

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

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19	"It was the greatest pearl in the world."
60	"It was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god..."
37	"...letters as big as dogs..."
37	"...a book as large as a house..."

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

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2	"The dawn came quickly now, a wash, a glow, a lightness, and then an explosion of fire as the sun arose out of the gulf."	It shows, not tells
4	"The syn was warming the brush house, breaking through its crevices in long streaks. And one of the streaks fell on the hanging box where Coyotito lay, and the ropes that held it."	^ ^

The Game

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

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21	"A town was a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet."	A town doesn't really have a nervous system

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

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82	"He heard a murmur behind him. Juana was whispering , 'Coyotito.' She was begging him to be quiet. Kino heard the baby whimper."	It used "murmur" and "whimper", both of which are sounds which suggest the meaning.

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

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21	"A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet."	It doesn't really have one, but people do.
37	"Words galloped and played on the book."	Silly words, you're not a horsie. You don't gallop on the page hahahaha! Oh you silly words....

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."	Because the old women aren't chickens.
59	"He hissed like a snake..."	Because his hiss was like a snake.

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

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39	"So lovely it was, so soft, and its own music came from in it-- its music of promise and delight, its guarantee of the future, of comfort, of security. Its warm lucence promised a poultice against illness and a wall against insult..."	To Kino the pearl symbolizes security.