Characters
Phoebe believes her mother was taken by him
The Lunatic
Spread thickly
slather
Comparing two things using like or as
Similie
Mr. Birkway gave them 15 seconds to draw this.
Their souls
Gramps said he followed her like a sick, old dog for twenty-two days.
Simile
Gram
Evil
malevolent
Comparing two things NO LIKE OR AS
Metaphor
Sal's mother's hair is hidden here
Under the floorboards
I had done this a million times in the swimming hole in Bybanks.
Hyperbole
She does not believe she is 'kind enough'
Sal's Mom
Without revealing your identity
anonymous
Giving human qualities to non living things
Personification
Sal's mother did this to the maple tree.
Kissed it.
In the end, I think I merely ran out of steam.
Idiom
Mrs. Cadaver
To make you feel better
reassurance
An exaggeration
Hyperbole
The second message
"Everyone has his own agenda"
He was the light of their lives.
Metaphor
He leaps around the classroom like a hurricane
Mr. Birkway
Unsure, not trusting
skeptical
When pigs fly
Idiom
The boy did this to help Gram's snake bite
Sucked the venom out of the wound
I wanted to tell her that she was just fishing in the air and that probably her mother had not been kidnapped.
Idiom