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Page 215 line 1 - page 216 line 4

Devices:
Metaphor for people
Personification of animals
Imagery of nature
Simile for hurricane description

Key topics:
Poverty
Socioeconomic status

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Page 254 line 24 - page 255 line 24
Devices:
Personification of Katrina
(Murderous mother),
Allusions to Medea.
Juxtaposition
death and birth,
destruction and creation.
Simile
Blazing fire and cold burning ice (eyes)
Glass symbolizes rebirth, a cycle
Key Topics:
Motherhood, progress, destruction, creation, family, birth, stories,

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Passage:  pg. 203/ln. 10 - pg. 205/ln. 11
Devices:

Metaphor + Simile

Esch is on Manny like China

Esch shakes like leaves, bending in the coming winds (suggesting flexibility/adaptation).

The baby Esch carries in her stomach is “relentless”, as if it will dawn.

THe wind grabs her voice.

Flashback to different childhood fights

Juxtaposition of violence and love

Allusion to Medea

Key Topics/Themes:

Unreciprocated love

Violence

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page 257 line 6-- ending
literary devices:
similes & metaphors
"face like a puzzle with pieces fit together wrong"
"like his skin is a tshirt he could pull off and become something else..."

lots of imagery

symbolsim ( idea of skeetah shedding his human form and running out to china, and "alive" symbolsim)

juxtaposition of grief and relief

key topics:
- life/death
- family
- being black in america
- being poor in america
- childhood
- love
- motherhood
- loss/grief
- dreams
- resilience

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Page 143, Line 11 -- Page 146, Line 27

Devices

References to Medea
Metaphors  - Manny/Esch, Motherhood
Lighting -- Dark vs Light in the bathroom

Key Topics:
Esch's relationship to her child
Esch's relationship w/ Manny -- Motherhood
Gender Roles
Definitions of "Love"

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Passage Page/Line Numbers: 219/31-32

Literary Devices:

Flashback (how her mother described a hurricane) The italics are used to reference something that her mom once said and in turn we are led to believe that Esch feels closer to her mother now more than ever through this traumatic event that her mom has lived through (both a hurricane and pregnancy).

Simile (describing the wind/Camille) The winds themselves are being compared to trains and the winds of the hurricanes have carried debris in every direction much like trains carry people and cargo to their desired destinations.

Key topics: motherhood, strength, uncertainty

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254 - 255, Lines 17 - 8

Topics: Found family, pregnancy, friendship

Devices: Imagery, diction, simile

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Page 198 line 32 to page 199 line 26

Devices

“The pines shrug in a sky that covers like a wet T-shirt.” line 20 on 199

There are two devices here. The first is personification of the pines, showing them shrugging. The second is a simile comparing the sky to a wet t-shirt.

“She smiled at me, and her eyelashes met her eyelashes like a Venus flytrap.” lines 12-14 on 199

This is a simile where Esch’s mother’s eyelashes are compared to a Venus flytrap.

“She’d leaned over like Randall, her strong hand soft on the back of my neck, steadying me like a dog.” lines 4-5 on 199

This is a simile in which Esch’s mother’s touch to her neck is compared to the steadying of a dog, rather than the comforting of her daughter.

Key topics:
Esch's relationship with her mother
Esch's relationship with her unborn child
Esch's environment as a parallel to her internal thoughts and feelings

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Page 87-88 Line 4-10

Devices

Simile (dark marks compared to black beans)

Metaphor comparing sickness to “endless dark days”

Pregnant stomach compared to different types of melon

Reference to Medusa (“what will turn us to stone”)

Key Topics/Themes

Motherhood

Body image/Female body type

Secrets/lies

Love

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Devices:

Simile comparing Esch to glass

Weak vs. strong

Motif of “price” and having to pay for things because of being female

Simile comparing the word female to something bitter

Key topics:
Motherhood, strength, survival, care, power dynamics, demonstration of love, feminine expectations, vulnerability, birth

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85 line 12 to 32

Devices:
Metaphor/Simile
the sunset turning through the sky behind us like a top
the biting marsh grass
a Laugh that swooped up into the sky with the pelicans and flew
away. Wind-ready and wide as their wings.
soaked it in buttermilk to take the wild out of it.
Symbol
the baby shark
it was the same color as the water, As long as her arm, and strong
Diction
Our feet were always a snarl of cuts
a sagging plastic and aluminum yard chair
She coaxed it to death

key topics: family, motherhood, strength, care, power dynamics, feminine expectations,

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Literary Devices:
Simile: Big Henry's Eyes/Sun on a fall day, Big Henry's legs/Tree Trunk, People/Newborns, Manny's Eyes/Blazing Fire & Burning Ice,
Personification: Katrina/Murderous Mother, Katrina/Deified
Allusion: Medea
Symbolism: Glass=Rebirth
Imagery: Salt
Juxtaposition: Death/Birth, Destruction/Creation
Key Topics: Almost all of them