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"Five minutes later we were skidding like frightened puppies toward the bank again" (Taylor 48).
Simile
Mood: Fearful

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"Soon the purr of a motor came closer..."(Taylor 47).
Personification
Mood: Anxious

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"But instead of graceful glide through the puddle that its occupants were expecting, the bus emitted a tremendous crack and drunkenly into our trap" (Taylor 54)
Onomatopoeia
Mood:distressed

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"This information cut deeply into Little Man's brain"(Taylor 44).
Idiom
Mood: depressed

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"Like a lopsided billy goat on its knees" (Taylor 51) Simile
Mood: Fearful

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"the rain began to pound down again, hammering with great intensity upon the tin roof" (Taylor 53)
Metaphor
Mood: Dreary

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"Deep feathery bed..."(Taylor 45).
imagery
mood: comfy

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"Knowing that the bus driver liked to entertain his passengers by sending us slipping along the road to the almost inaccessible forest banks washed to a smooth baldness by the constant rains..."(Taylor 43)
Personification
Mood: Distressed

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"As soon as we were beyond  Big Ma's eagle eyes"

metaphor

mood: confining, strict

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"As soon as we were beyond Big Ma's eagle eye, we threw off our the cloaks and depended upon the overhanging limbs of the forest trees to keep us dry."(Taylor 43).
Metaphor
Mood: Anxious

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"To shield us from the rain, Mama issued us dried calf skins which we flung over our heads and shoulders like stiff cloaks" (Taylor 42).
Simile
mood: uncomfortable

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"He looked as if the world itself was  slung around his neck" (Taylor 49)

Simile

mood: dreary, hopless, lonely

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"it had given up, slinking meekly behind the blackening clouds." (Taylor 46)                                          personification                                          mood: distressed

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"its right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees"(Taylor 54).
Simile
Mood: Fearful

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"...I glaced back at him standing alone in middle of the crossing, he looked as if the world itself was slung around his neck,"(Tayalor 49).
simile
mood- depressed

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"Eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain..." (Taylor 42).
personification
mood: dreary

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"Then it sputtered a last murmuring protest and died" (Taylor 54
personification
mood: frustrated

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"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).
simile
mood: moody/dreary

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"Little Man threw his mudball, missing the wheels by several feet." (Taylor 48)
Symbolism
Mood: Enraged

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"the rained poured upon him in sharp-needled darts"(Taylor, 54). Metaphor; Mood:Cautious/nervous

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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: Anxious

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"it churned into a fine red mud that oozed between our toes and slopped against our ankles as we marched miserably to and from school"
Imagery
Mood: frustrated

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"looking as if his pants had not been washed in more than a month" (Taylor 45)

simile

mood: distressed

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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; but eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain and it churned to a fine red mud..." (Taylor 42).

Personification
mood: intimidating, nightmarish, painful