# data[].attributes.body
Informal Diction-used to address a familiar audience such as family or friends.
1. " Her furniture was chiseled out of wood and the chairs had curvy figures on them not just brown or worn out."(62)

.2  "You think that sun wont fry brain." (64)
.3"I would keep her tied up in this particular plan." (65)

# data[].attributes.body
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 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." (65). Ellen flashes back to when she used to watch Starletta and Starletta family work in the field

# data[].attributes.body
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

" I watched her in the churchyard  when she might be a Queen or a lady going to be executed with dignity" (57).

This simile describes how new mama was walking like royalty with her head probably straight up and proper.

# data[].attributes.body
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

" All the time was like a record you play on the wrong speed" (60).

What this simile means is that the thought of going to her grandmother house kept replaying in her head.

# data[].attributes.headline
compassionate-feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.

# data[].attributes.subject
compassionate-feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.

# data[].attributes.body
" I always want to lay here. And she moves her arm up and I push my head down by her side. And I will crawl in and make room for myself. My heart can be the one that beats. And hers has stopped" (10).

# data[].attributes.body
having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.

Ex. " I knew my mama's mama was having her usual big turkey dinner that night but that was OK because I had turkey sliced up with dressing along with two vegetables and a dab of dessert" (27).

# data[].attributes.body
"The bookmobile does not run on the holiday so I cannot go down to the crosswords to meet it. There is nothing in the world like the bookmobile. A bus from town full of stories to check out and take home"(33).

I choose this picture of a book mobile in the 1960s  to help visualize the quote.

# data[].attributes.body
" They live regular  but most colored people have grandmama or two and a couple dozen cousins in the same house" (30).

Explanation- I chose this picture to represent the times was after slavery and had to be in the south. This is the time when Jim Crow laws was in affect because everything was separated between the whites and the blacks. I got this conclusion from how in the story they were calling calling African American people colored.

# data[].attributes.body
"I already know she has a nice house. It is yellow and has flowers grown all up on the mailbox it I am not confused" (41).

Ellen went to stay with her Aunt Betsy and was describing her house

# data[].attributes.body
Intelligent- having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level.

"That was two years ago and I'm up to the Bronte sisters now. I do not read comic books or the news" I can hardly tolerate the stories we read for school" (10) and (11).

# data[].attributes.body
Motif- is a recurring object or ides.
"I need to get up and eat what I smell. The oven door squeaks and she's holding soft round biscuits" (4).

# data[].attributes.body
juxtaposition is when you place two things beside each other for comparison or contrast
" I keep my elbows off the table and wipe my mouth like a lady. Nobody Barks, farts or feeds the dogs under table here. My new mama puts the dishes in the thing and shuts the door." (4).

# data[].attributes.body
Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

" some wild ride broke and the one in charge strolled off and let us spin and shake and fly off the rail" (2).

# data[].attributes.headline
Symbolism is when an object, person, or event represents an abstract idea different from liberal meaning.

# data[].attributes.subject
Symbolism is when an object, person, or event represents an abstract idea different from liberal meaning.

# data[].attributes.body
"No but he is taking care of his own self tonight just like she is not sick or kin to him. A storm is coming up" (7).

# data[].attributes.body
At the end of chapter 1 Ellen states there is a storm coming meaning something bad is about to happen. eventually, her mother ended up dying.