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Felicia's eyes went as big as headlights.
Simile
The main character of a story
protagonist
How many sisters are in the Garza family?
5
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife."
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an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Connotation
The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.
Metaphor
Who lives near the town the dead man is from in Mexico?
Abuelita Remedios
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
Series of Unfortunate Events
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The tabloids screamed insults at the celebrities.
Personification
Her glittering crown of diamonds was so brilliant that the sun ducked behind a cloud in shame.
Personification
What do the group of sisters all themselves?
Cinco hermanitas
"My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog."
Because of Winn-Dixie
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The baker busily kneaded the bread.
Alliteration
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Alliteration
What trick does Odilia play to try to get her sisters to stay home?
She pretends to be their mother coming home early.
“One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night.”
The Snowy Day
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A man falls over a giant waterfall and survives, only to take a shower where he slips on the soap and dies from trauma.
Situational irony
Kelly couldn't help but to notice that the new boy was reading Lord of the Flies during silent reading.
Allusion
"One minute her long dress was billowing against her legs, and the next she was gone. Disappeared. Like a ghostly apparition, she vanished into the surreal light of the fading sunset." Who is being described?
La Llorona
"It was a dark and stormy night"
A Wrinkle in Time