Why Is the Sky Blue?
This author wrote, "You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky."
Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) [Metaphor and personification because they compare the sky to alcohol and the sky can't keep you safe.]
This author wrote, “I lay down across my cot. I could still feel Mama’s pain. And I knew she felt that I didn’t do anything wrong. It was me who wasn’t sure. It was me who lay on the cot wondering if I was fooling myself.”
Meyers (Monster)
This author wrote, “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo."
Lowry (The Giver)
This author wrote, “If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.”
Paulsen (Hatchet)
This work contains the lines, “the policemen’s guns spit fire into the night”
The Outsiders (Hinton)
It's a literary technique in the lines,
"Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor."
Metaphor (The House on Mango Street by Cisneros)
This book contains the lines,
“You are your most valuable asset…You are the best thing you have.”
Hatchet (Paulsen)
This author wrote, “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
This author wrote, "But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are."
Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time)
This author wrote,
Armed guards surrounded her while hundreds
of white people spat and called her names.
She was six years old.
Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming)
This book contains the lines, “I want to make things up. In a way I guess that’s lying too, except I think you can tell the real truth with that kind of lying.”
The Pigman (Zindel)
This author wrote, "Maybe there are some lies you should never admit to.”
Zindel (The Pigman)
This book contains the lines, "The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words "meta" (which means from one place to another) and "pherein" (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means the word metaphor is a metaphor."
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon)
This book contains the lines, "That meant he could murder me, because I couldn't trust him, even though he had said, 'Trust me,' because he had told a lie about a big thing."
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon)
This author wrote, "So it's like you gave her this second life where she got to be a teenager."
Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
This work contains the lines,
How can I explain to anyone that stories
are like air to me,
I breathe them in and let them out
over and over again.
Brown Girl Dreaming (Woodson)
This author wrote, "I hadn't read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction."
Green (The Fault in Our Stars) [Perks of Being a Wallflower and Brown Girl Dreaming also talks about being Infiinite]
This book contains the lines, "Writing does not resurrect. It buries."
The Fault in Our Stars (Green)
This author wrote, “Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.”
Taylor (Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry)
This is an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect; in Greek, literally “no place”
Utopia (The Giver by Lowry)
This book contains the lines, "And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract."
This author wrote, “So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.”
Plath (The Bell Jar) [This is also a simile]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an example of what two kinds of novels?
Epistolary (letters) and Bildungsroman (A coming of age novel)
This author wrote, ‘You’re not ready?’ she asked. I nodded. But that wasn’t it. I didn’t know what it was.”
Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
This literary technique is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of sentences or lines near each other, such as in "After the chicken is fried and wrapped in wax paper...After the corn bread is cut into wedges...After the clothes are folded back into suitcases..."
anaphora (Woodson/Brown Girl Dreaming)