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Flash back-a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.

"I never knowed anybody sweet like your mama Smart as a whip  too!"(pg.65)
Mavis had a flash back to when she was raising Ellen's mother.
"I used to play in the fields with Starletta and watch her mama and daddy chop but I never figured it would be me one day." Ellen flashes back to when she wasn't   familiar with working nor with colored folk.

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Diction is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

example #1: "That got my goat because i had forgot and could have turned eleven without my knowledge." (page #50)

example #2: "Now you get you a home. When i gets to the end of mines I'll catch up to the rest of us." (page #63)

example #3: " And you is not wearing a hat on your head. What you think that sun won't fry your brain? Lord chile." (page #64)

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simile-a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

Ox-n ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration makes the animals easier to control. Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas.

"He better watch out for me is what else .I said. I am strong as a ox."(pg.47)

Ellen says that she is strong like an ox because of all the responsibility that she carries around and she dose not  crack  under pressure.

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Ellen's second home was her art teacher's house . " She lived in a blue house with plants in the windows and hanging all in the kitchen. " (page #46)

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Ellen's house was the dark place she lived in. Where everything seemed like a storm. "" I thought to lock him out. A storm is coming up. And i will lay here with my mama until i see her chest rise up and sink down regular." (page #7)

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Independent, command, strong . the reason why i say Ellen Foster is Independent because she never really had anyone other than her mother take care of her then when her mom got sick she had to take care of her self making her independent. i also say she is command because she never really listens to her father, she didn't listen to her mom when her mom asked her to not worry about her. And the last thing i said she is strong because she never really took anyone's crap from people especially when it came to her mom.

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Storm will always end, be courageous.

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is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message. (Food) " I feel good at my table with biscuits." (pg.14)

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Placing two things beside each other for comparison or contrast. "Mamma puts the food out on the table and he wants to know what am i staring at." (pg.5)

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Is a comparison of two dissimilar things using same form of the verb. "Everything was so wrong like somebody had knocked something loose and my family was shaking itself to death". (pg.2)

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a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process. This symbol signifies the metaphor that she used to describe her parent death. "And i will lay here with my mama until i see her chest rise up and sink down regular. Deep and regular and far away from the man in the truck."(pg 7)