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She constructs castles constantly

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''He drives on and remembers a smell. Not this stinky odour of rain and damp, but one from when he was just a lad and time was endless. The lingering scent of Lavender and grass fields wet with dew in early May''

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''He wonders if people are born with a fixed destiny like the course on a navigation chart with directions to follow or are like dry rivers in deserts and become brooks and streams that flow to the sea.''

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''he breathes the damp air and feels it passing through his lungs, his chest tightens and for a second, he has a genuine fear of death.''

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"The cold enters my clothes, seeps into my skin and into my bones."(p. 47)

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''A headache has begun: iron bars beneath the flesh of my forehead'' (p. 36)

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"my cheeks are wet even
though it isn’t raining" (p. 68)

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"There was always the aroma of newly baked cookies or cake in the kitchen" (p. 56)

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"the keys were cool to his touch" (p. 51)

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"I press my back against the tree and I feel stronger suddenly, as if I am part of it all, part of the tree and part of the storm, part of the thunder and part of the rain. I lift my face and the rain pours down." (p. 48)

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"the sun and the clouds
have played disappearing games since my departure this morning" (p. 47)

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“My love for you is like a searching wind …” (p. 43)

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'' I am driving into the storm.'' (p.40)

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"her tongue darting
swiftly seeking his" (p. 38)

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"Louis Armstrong made his trumpet
sound like a man staggering drunk along the street." (p. 30)

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"Mother Nature working nervously in neon" (p. 30)

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"The dog keeps trying to dash in front of the bike, as if he is more
interested in stopping the bike than in attacking me." (p. 26)

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"his eyes like marbles" (p. 26)

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"The dog lifts his head at my approach, alert, ears sharp, as if he is
accepting a challenge." (p. 26)

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"the house itself wears an abandoned look" (p. 26)

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''the wind like a snake slithering up my sleeves.'' (p. 154)

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''I am riding my bike and I am on Route 31 in Monument, Massachusetts, on my way to Rutterburg, Vermont, and I am pedaling furiously because this is an old-fashioned bike, no speeds, no fenders, only the warped tires and the brakes that don't always work and the handlebars with cracked rubber grips to steer with.'' (p. 154)

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''I pedal through the town, across a wooden bridge, the sound of the slats like applause in my ears.'' (p. 27)

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''She was lightning, he was cloud.'' (p. 41)

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"The rain dances on the ground.'' (p. 47)

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''The blue seal was identical to the seal on the other birth certificates. Why another certificate?'' (p. 52)

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''Adam felt himself shriveling into the chair'' (p. 109)

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'' My mouth is open and the cold air bruises my teeth.'' (p. 139)

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"The car. Like a monster. The car." (p. 144)

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'' The pavement scratching his cheek like sandpaper.'' (p. 145)

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''His father's voice holding him captive.'' (p. 92)

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''He could still remember his father's voice in the cellar that day, and the Ping-Pong ball like a small planet suspended in space.'' (p. 92)

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''Active verbs that danced and raced on the page'' (p. 90)

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'' I will not give him the package. I am the package.'' (p.75)

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A figure of speech in which consonants, especially at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, are repeated. (Cuddon, p. 39)

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I spend my quarantine reading a magazine while trying not to sink in a boredom submarine.

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I’m bored out of my mind.

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If I have to do one more class on zoom I'm gonna off myself

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It’s been so long since I last saw my friends that I can’t remember what they look like.

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I am a ghost, swooshing along the labyrinth of the future, uncertain of where the next turn will lead me.

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She screams and flashes her lights whenever I get a text. She is trying to lure me into temptation. I must not look at her smooth face or I'll never get back to this essay.

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My motivation? she can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, cause she's dead.

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“I stand in the upright coffin[...]” (p. 9)

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A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image. It is an explicit comparison. (Cuddon, p. 674 )

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“[...] a rotten October dreary, cold and damp with little sun and no warmth at all.” (p. 9)

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363A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis.Everyday instances, of which there are many, are: ‘I haven’t seen you for ages’; ‘as old as the hills’; ‘terrible weather'. (Cuddon, p. )

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J. A. Cuddon. (2013). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New Jersey: Wiley-Balckwell

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The technique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand. A well-constructed novel, for instance, will suggest at the very beginning what the outcome may be; the end is contained in the beginning and this gives structural and thematic unity. (Cuddon, p. 302 )

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A figure of speech in

which one thing is described in terms of another. The basic figure in poetry.

A comparison is usually implicit; whereas in a simile, it is explicit. (Cuddon, p. 432)

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Imagery as a general term covers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind

and any sensory or extra-sensory experience. (Cuddon, p. 354)

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It is an object, animate or inanimate, which represents or ‘stands

for’ something else. A literary symbol combines an image with a concept . It may be public or private, universal or

local. (Cuddon, p. 716 )

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The impersonation or embodiment of some quality or abstraction; the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects. Personification is inherent in many languages through the use of gender. (Cuddon, p. 529)