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"Five minutes later we were skidding like frightened puppies toward the bank again as the bus accelerated and barreled down the narrow rain-soaked road" (Taylor 48).
Simile
Mood: Gloomy, dreary

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"...deafening roar that sounded as if thousands of giant rocks were being hurled against the earth." (Taylor 45).
Fig. Language: Metaphor
Mood: Soothing or serene

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"Then Stacey waded into the gully water and pulled himself up onto the forest bank. Finding three rocks, he stacked them to identify the spot." (Taylor 52).
Personification
Mood: Determined

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Johnny Narcise- "...the tat-tat of the rain against the tin roof changed to a deafening roar that sounded as if thousands of giant rocks were being hurled against the earth."(Taylor 45) 

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Johnny Narcise- "...the tat-tat of the rain against the tin roof changed to a deafening roar that sounded as if thousands of giant rocks were being hurled against the earth."(Taylor 45) 

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Scary, anxious

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" I got me a broken axle an' a water-logged no doubt and no tellin' what-all else are and you talkin' bout fixing it!" ( Taylor 55)

mood: agrivated

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"Then all of us began to laugh and were deliciously happy."  (Taylor 57)
You can't be delicious......
only me

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"We hastened up the road to where the gully was narrower and we could easily swing up the bank into the forest"(Taylor 47).
Metaphor
Mood: calm

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"Soon as the purr of a motor came closer and Mr. Granger's sleek silver packard eased into view" (Taylor 47).
FIG LANG -  Personification
This quote is personification because the car acts like a cat. Cats are the ones that purr.
Mood - Anxious
Clearly this shows an anxious mood because the kids were worrying and waiting for a vehicle to come by and splash them with mood.

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"I decided my mud was no more noticeable than anyone else's"(Taylor 52). 

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"I decided my mud was no more noticeable than anyone else's"(Taylor 52). 

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Why is she saying it as if multiple people have mud when it's only her and little man.

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"Then it sputtered a last murmuring protest and died, its left front wheel in our ditch,it's right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees." (Taylor 54).
Mood: Drained
Figurative Language: Personification.
-- Katelyn

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"At first the rain had merely splotched the dust,which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it".(Taylor 42)
Personification
Mood: Dreary

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"why stay up here waitin' for that devilish bus when we could be at school outa this mess?"(taylor 47)
metaphor
mood=scared

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"We plodded along feeling the cold mud against our feet, walking faster and faster to reach the crossroads. Then Christopher-john stopped. "Hey, y'all, i think i hear it," he warned".(taylor 46)
imagery
mood:gloomy

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".... the rain fell like hail upon our bent heads" (Taylor 46).
Fig Lang- simile
Mood- depressed

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"While Stacey and I shoveled ragged holes almost a yard wide and a foot deep toward each other, dumping the excess mud into the water-filled gullies, Little man and Christopher-John scooped bucketfuls of the red earth from the road's center." (Taylor 51). Figurative Language used: Imagery. Mood: Bleak.

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"That night when I was snug in the deep feathery bed beside Big Ma, the tat-tat of the rain against the tin roof changed to a deafening roar that sounded as if thousands of giant rocks were being hurled against the earth"(Taylor 45). This is a metaphor since it is describing two things without using like or as.
The mood of this quote is nightmarish since it says a deafening roar

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"This information cut deeply into Little man brain..", (Taylor 44).
Personification
mood:Angered

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"At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops" (Taylor 42).
Personification
mood: dreary

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"Soon the thunder rolled across the sky, and the rain fell like hail upon our bent heads" (Taylor 46).
Simile
Mood: Depressed

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"Then is sputtered a last murmuring protest and died, its left front wheel in our ditch, its right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees(Taylor 54).
FIG LANG- Personification
MOOD- Relieved

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"At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in it's own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it; but eventually the dust was forced to surrender" (Taylor 42).

personification
Mood: gloomy