Alliteration, Allusion, Anaphora or Anecdote?
Beneath the branches, she breathed deeply, bracing herself for the truth so long buried in silence.
Alliteration
Her words were like smelling salts waking me to what I had known back when I was picking strawberries.
Simile
This creature sacrificed his life diving for the mud that would become the land on the turtle's back.
The muskrat.
This should be the last sentence (or two sentences) of your introductory paragraph.
Thesis
I like to imagine they were the first flowers I saw, over my mother’s shoulder, as the pink blanket slipped away from my face and their colors flooded my consciousness.
Anecdote
By its renewal after picking, the grass says to the people, "I need you, too."
Personification
Kimmerer learns that aster and goldenrods catch the attention of this insect due to the striking contrast of their colors, leading to the benefit of both the plants and the insect.
Bees
Rewrite this sentence to make the citing of the page number less clunky:
On page 12 Kimmerer writes, “All flourishing is mutual.”
Kimmerer writes, “All flourishing is mutual” (12).
When she fell from Skyworld, Turtle Island was her Plymouth Rock, her Ellis Island. The Mother of the People was first an immigrant.
Allusion
Perhaps the skywoman story endures because we too are always falling.
Metaphor
This term describes the blending of Indigenous wisdom and scientific methods that Kimmerer advocates throughout the book. It results in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Reciprocity
Find the error"
Kimmerer reflects on how her background and interests made her feel different in her program, noting that “No one asks plants, “What can you tell us?” The primary question was “How does it work?”” (42)
Kimmerer reflects on how her background and interests made her feel different in her program, noting that “No one asks plants, ‘What can you tell us?’ The primary question was ‘How does it work?’” (42)
You don't have to erase the vivid memories of a childhood spent outdoors. You don't have to grapple with cozy winter nights cuddled up with parents who read fairytales to you. You don't have to overcome any of it.
Anaphora
Science and art, matter and spirit, indigenous knowledge and Western science - can they be goldenrod and asters for each other?
Antithesis
This is the word for sweetgrass in Potawatomi
Wiingaashk
Find the error:
Kimmerer relates that allotment at first seemed to be given in good faith, as “every tribal member, even my grandfather, a baby in arms, was given title to an allotment of land” that was theirs to own (47).
Kimmerer relates that allotment at first seemed to be given in good faith, as “every tribal member, even [her] grandfather, a baby in arms, was given title to an allotment of land” that was theirs to own (47).
We were taught to give thanks for the sweetness of the berries. We were taught to offer a gift of tobacco before gathering the first shoots of the spring plants. We were taught to honor the plants as our relatives, to share the world with them.
Anaphora
We have learned to gather the berries and the herbs and the seeds and the roots with reverence and care.
Polysyndeton
This is the Swedish botonist Kimmerer imagines Nanabozho strolling with through the woods.
Linnaeus.
Macbeth does not share in his wife's desire to end their murder spree, ruminating instead on the fact that “[They] have scorched the snake, not killed it”(3.2.13). Macbeth is all too aware of the fact that Banquo (and Fleance) live which leaves open the possibility that the crown will eventually pass on to it's rightful owner: a son of Banquo.
It's = its.