Literary+Devices+20&21

"I'm telling you now: if he don't make it, you're **__in a pickle__**, you people. This is a metaphor because the Tucks won't really be in a pickle. This means that they will be in big trouble and that they will have a problem. **Metaphor; p. 103

__"Tuck's face crumpled."__** This is another metaphor because Tuck's face didn't really crumple. This is saying that Tuck's face wrinkled, or all of a sudden had a lot of wrinkles. However, Tuck's face didn't crumple. His face had wrinkles because he was worried about Mae going to the gallows. After all, she couldn't die, so the entire town of Treegap would know about the spring. **Metaphor; p. 104**

"...Winnie saw again the **__wide world__** spread before her, **__shimmering with light and possibility."__** This is yet another metaphor and also an alliteration. The metaphor is that the world can shimmer with light, but it can't really shimmer with possibility. It is saying that in Winnie's view the world has lots of possibility. The alliteration is **__"...wide world..."__** because the "w" sound sounds two times at the beginnning of two words next to each other. **__Metaphor and Alliteration; p. 105__**

"... but **__she still squeezed into it sometimes__**..."This is an alliteration with four repeated sounds in a row, which are "she", "still", "squeezed", and "sometimes". **__Alliteration p. 106__**

"They had seized her at once, flinging the gate open and **__swooping down__** on her..." This is a metaphor because Winnie's family did not really swoop down, or fly down to Winnie. They may have ran quickly, but swooping down would be like flying. **__Metaphor, p. 106

"That feeling-it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks."__** This is a **__huge__** metaphor because there aren''t really strings tying Winnie to her mother, father, grandmother, or to the Tucks. It is saying that Winnie feels a relatshionship to the Tucks, her mother, father, and grandmother. **__Metaphor p. 108__**