Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Please give me 4 similes and 4 personifications in the story...

Personification:


Windows so
small you'd think they were holding their
breath..."(2)



“Four skinny trees…they grow up
and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the earth with
violent teeth and never quit their anger”
(74).



“…the moan of the wooden door as it opens
and lets loose its sigh of dampness” (71).


“But I think
diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone” (58).



Similes



The
kids…almost break like fancy museum vases you can’t replace”
(29).



Let one forget his reason for being,
they’d all droop like tulips in a glass”
(74-75).



“She keeps looking around her like a
wild animal in a house for the first time” (68).


“The moon
is beautiful like a balloon” (68).

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