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Thank you to those of you who completed the lists . . . please, though, review your notes on each "mode" and examine what you posted; we have a few errors here. E-mail me, or post a question if you're unsure of what you posted.

Today: Discussion of parts 1 and 2 of FK's "The Metamorphosis."

Coming up: RD of your Observation/Description is due Thursday.
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Figurative sentences

Simile: “I bring pizza and salad back to my room for dinner, telling myself that anything tastes better when acquired at some risk to life and limb, like venison fresh from the hunt.” (ND)

Metaphor: “Educated middle-class professionals never go careening half-cocked ino the future, vulnerable to any surprise that light leap out at them.” (ND)

Personification: “On the evening of Tuesday, August 24, still summer, but with back-to-school sales shouting for attention from every shopping center, I arrive at the Trailways bus station…” (ND)

Metaphor: “Seems its marble walls have been “bleeding” onto the brass fixtures, and can I scrub the grouting extra hard?” (ND)

4 Figurative Language Quotes

• "This guy is a real peach." (Baghdad Burning): Kenning?
• "Politics is a whore." (Baghdad Burning): Metaphor
• "The puppet-master met with Bremer and the puppets but the picture wasn't complete- Bush wasn't there." (Baghdad Burning): Kenning
• "Washing clothes is a trial." (Baghdad Burning): Metaphor

- Andrea Rojo

Figurative Language

1. "Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat- even the date palms look limp with the exhaustion of survival" - simile (Bhagdad Burning)
2. "I could swear that at noon, in Iraq, the sun shuts out the rest of the world from its glory and concentrates its energies on us" -personification (Bhagdad Burning)
3. "The boy who didn't get his pony"-Cliche (songs/voices)
4. "Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado"-Simile (Bhagdad Burning)

4 Quotes

1. "I am still alive and like all living things, with each breath I come closer to death."- Cliché/Simile
   
2. "The day is Red, red for violence, and blue because it was cold."- Metaphor
   
3. "Lay slain by a cane, That sailed through the air and came down through the room," -Personification
   
4. "I guess I went to him for the wrong reasons, it wasn't a crazy mind that I was suffering from, it was my shattered soul."-Personification

Jenny Cruz

Figurative Language - Alicia Singer

"At times I feel that the only thing I have left behind me is a path of broken pieces." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" blog (metaphor)

"The land of 1,000 lies." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" Blog (metaphor/incomplete sentence!)

"Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat" -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)

"Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado." -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)