LiteraryDevices+22&23

-Rahil9 Two days before, they would have insisted that she stay indoors, but now, this morning they were careful with her, a little gingerly, **__as if she was an egg.__** pg.111 similee This means that she treated very carefully and cautiously like a mother hen treats her egg. The earth, where it was worn bald under the gate, was cracked, __**and hard as rock**__, __**a lifeless tan color**__: and **__the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust__**. pg.111 there is personification, one metaphor and one similee. This means that the road was so rough and cracked that it was as hard as a rock, it also is personification, the road was a lifeless tan color, but it was never living to begin with! Lastly, the dust wasn't really velvet, it just looked a velvety color. __**And then, lifting her head, she saw the toad**__. pgs. 111-112 foreshadowing This is foreshadowing because it is bringing the toad back from the story. No. They take it through their skins, __**like a sponge**__. When it rains. pg.112 similee This means that toads absorb water through their skin like sponges absorb water through their material. __**It was sucked in**__ immediately, and the wet brown stain it left behind paled and vanished almost as quickly. pg. 113 personification This means that the earth absorbed the was through the ground, it didn't really suck it through a straw or something like that. The countryside, the village of Treegap, the wood- __**all lay defeated**__. pg.116 personification This means that the whole village and wood could not fight the sun, it was too powerful. The didn't really lose a battle or something like that. __**The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without sound, a blazing glare so thorough and remorseless that even in the Fosters' parlor it seemed an actual presence**__. pg.116 metaphor this means that the sun was gigantic, you could not defend yourself from the heat, it was too powerful, as if it was sitting next to them. She tried to read, but __**it was so quiet that she could not concentrate**__. pg. 117 irony This is ironic because usually it is too loud to concentrate, not quiet! And then, __**as the sun reluctantly sank**__ behind the treetops, the haze hardened to a brilliant brownish-yellow. pg. 117 personification This is personification because the sun has to sink, it can't decide on its own. For outside, though it was almost dark, __**shreds of the hard brown-yellow light lingered on the rims of things**__, and there was a wind beginning. pg. 117 one metaphor and personification This means that parts of the sky was brownish-yellow and there is personification because light can't really linger around in the sky. Thinking of Tuck and Mae, of Miles and Jesse, her heart softened. They needed her. __**To take care of them**__. pg. 119 irony This is ironic because usually adults or older children take care of younger children, but instead, Winnie is taking care of the Tucks. Outside __**the night seemed poised on tiptoe, waiting, waiting, holding its breath**__ for the storm. pg. 120 personification This is personification because the night can't tiptoe, and it especially doesn't breath! __**She had not missed her moment- it was five minutes to midnight**__. pg. 120 cliffhanger This is a good cliffhanger because the author leaves you in suspense; what will happen next?
 * __Well, she would have to make them understand, somehow, without explaining__**. pg. 119 irony This is ironic because how can you make someone understand without explaining?