Thursday, November 19, 2009

Figurative Language:

What examples of figurative language and sound effects can you find in the book?

10 comments:

  1. Hyperbole
    ""It was a pool the gods would have delighted to swim in.""
    Page 11 quoted by Mamaji

    Hyperbole
    "Spread over numberless acres.."
    Page 12

    Synesthesia
    "...were it not for the beef-eating pink boy.."
    Page 5

    Simile
    "...with a neck like a tree trunk.."
    Page 5

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  2. Simile
    "My life is like a memento mori painting from European art..."
    Page 5

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  3. Onaomatopoeia-
    When Pi blows the whistle at Richard Parker the sound is "TREEEEE!" pg. 165
    Simile-
    "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi(pg 183). When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother, Able.

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  4. Simile
    "It was surging from below like a riotous crowd..."
    "It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire."
    Page 103

    Hyperbole
    "...the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never."
    Page 89

    Synesthesia
    "...long, black hair..."
    "...lovely white teeth..."
    "Bright dark eyes..."
    Page 80

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  5. Simile
    "Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces."

    Metaphor
    "The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."

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  6. metaphor
    "The heat was infernal."

    personification
    "Above me stood a shifting roof of green leaves that let in shafts of sunlight."

    Simile
    "My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word."

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  7. Metaphor
    "...my smile had frozen into a mask of horror."

    Simile
    "...his face rested next to the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if were playing hide-and-seek..."

    Personification
    "...soft green algae that clung to the lifejackets."

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  8. What are the page number to any of these amazing quotes??

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