Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Outside Reading 2 Post A

Vocabulary84

southpaw: it is a left handed person(55)

untrammelled: limited, not confined. (55)

Figurative Language Examples:
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"The coastline there is made up of coves and caves and limestone cliffs pierced by swallow holes that boom like gigantic didgeridoos when the surf hits them at high tide."(48)
This is an example of a simile, because it uses the word like to compare two different things.

"And if I am a black lamb then you are a black ram."(58)
This is an example of personification because it is describing a human as an animal.

"Laura was still lying like a shrivelled leaf in a Cardiff hospital."(98)
This is an example of a simile because it uses the word like to describe two unlike objects.

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