Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means something is not congruent or does not fit in
What is incongruency?
An example of this type of figurative language is "Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped"
What is a metaphor?
This vocabulary word means the quality of being clear
What is clarity?
This vocabulary word desribes a pointless action
What is futile?
An example of this type of figurative language is "For the most part, those days are ill-defined in my memory, running together and combininglike a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain"
What is a simile?
This vocabulary word means that something is dry or describe land that lacks water
What is arid?
An example of this type of figurative language is "...the brown, crumbly dust of late summer- arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes..."
What is imagery?
This vocabulary word means to be made extremely poor
What is impoverished?
This vocabulary word means doing something intentionally harmful or spiteful
what is malicious?
An example of this type of figurative language is "...I remember only the dry september of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shanty town..."
What is setting?
This vocabulary word means to feel remorse for having done wrong
What is contrition?
"Whenever the memory of those marigolds flashes across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it and remains long after the picture has faded."
What is foreshadowing?
This vocabulary word means to be undisturbed, calm, or quiet
What is placidly?