Figurative Language: What is it?
"The churches opened their arms."
Personification
"Like ghosts on the howling wind."
Simile
Who is Billie Jo's teacher?
Miss Freeland
Which sense is this? "Staring out at the dirty flakes."
Sight
"Would make my stomach groan."
Imagery
"I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City."
Hyperbole
"The wind screamed."
What is Personification?
What is Billie Jo's sibling named?
And what is he named after?
His name is Franklin
Named after President Franklin Roosevelt
Which sense is this? "These trees are thick with blossoms, delicate and pinky-white."
What is sight?
"Like prairie fire, hot and peppery."
Figurative language, simile.
"The potatoes are peppered plenty tonight, Polly."
"Permission to play at the Palace."
What is alliteration?
Who always cheats with money?
Mr. Hardly
Which sense is this, "The poppies red on the graves of the dead."
What is sight?
"I let the petals fall into my hair, a blizzard of sweet-smelling flowers."
What is a figurative language/metaphor?
"Playing piano is heaven."
What is a metaphor?
"I ignored the pain running up and down my arms."
Personification
Bay (Billie Jo's dad)
What sense is, "My breath is nothing but apple."
What is smell?
"Her anger, simmering over like a pot in an empty kitchen."
Figurative language/simile
"Ma would have thrown a fit."
What is a idiom?
"Round comments."
What is a Metaphor?
Who used to say, "Now" at dinner?
Ma
Which sense is, "Searing the inside of my nose."
What is touch?
"To eat them now, so tart."
Imagery