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a sudden and disturbing realistic memory of an event from the past.

"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

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specific word or  phrases one uses
" Her furniture was chiseled out of wood and the chairs had curvy figures on them not just brown or worn out "

"you think that sun won't fry brain"

"I would keep her tied up in this particular plan"

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Basically a plan that keeps popping up mentally
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure it out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."  The motif is death Pg:1

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The setting is a storm approaching a house because Ellen's life get flipped upside down down soon as her mom comes home

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Definition: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. " Everything was so wrong like somebody had knocked something loose and my family was shaking itself to death". pg.2

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
-"I used to be but i am not now is what i told him....oh but i do remember when i was scared."

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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.

An ox is a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull.

"He better watch out for me is what i said. I am strong as a ox." (page #47)
strong as an ox because an ox is used to carry heavy stuff and Ellen was carrying a lot on her shoulders herself and she was not to mess with just like an ox.