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page 74 , metaphor
"not even a picture of an Indian"

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Diction- “gritted” this gives a visual of what feather is doing.
Foreshadowing- “clumsily fake-tripping into her, his hand brushing against her breast.” This is leading up to future events that happen in the story.

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Metaphor
“his arms looked like Hulk Hogan’s”
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Flashback—“He cried when we had to dissect frogs in grade seven!”  Pg 13
—Desiree

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Imagery “his hair was dark brown cut into a strange kind of bowl cut, and his nose was large and hatched shaped” (page 48)

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comparison
“it looks just like the red ink that the octopus shot into the ocean right before it escaped the shark” - page 22
onomatopoeia
when i pressed the bottle toward the wall, it hissed. -page 53
hyperbole
spit flew out of my mouth and my head felt like it was going to explode - page 71

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Smilie..."She was like a whirlwind"( pg 16). This quote is saying like she was a bit crazy and that she was very into doing things.

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"Her voice sounded like warm summer air swooshing over the open prairie right before rain comes..." (10). This is a metaphor from From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle. Here, Jesse's Kokum's voice is being compared to warm summer air, in how it sounds smooth, calming and warm.

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personification "dancing flames" pgs 185 or oxymoron for the two words being opposite to each other
symbol- fire for Evens community trying to find warmth in the hard winter season they are going through.
Simile- "He looked up to see a
crimson sun pulsing through the winter storm, washing the
snow around him in a bright red glow like the flashing lights
of an ambulance" pgs 186 it compared the bright red glow to a flashing light that you see in a ambulance and using the word like which is prove of a simile.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian-Breanna

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian-Breanna

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1. “My brain was drowning in grease” This is a example of hyperbole. He is exaggerating how bad his brain was when he was born. To get his point across that his body wasn’t in good condition when he was born.
2. “I figured he’d okay after some rest, but then...” You think everything is going to be okay until the author hits you with “but then...” things ending up taking a downward spiral from there. It kind of tells you to prepare for something bad coming.
3. “She’s a human tape recorder” The mom is good at reading and reciting what happened in the text she reads. She isn’t really a human tape recorder, she just has really good memory.

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“ they awoke to the rapid high-pitched buzz of their alarm “(pg12) this sentence uses the literary device of onomatopoeia through the word buzz.

“The pungent aroma of stale cigarettes smoke hanging in the air”(pg45) this demonstrates the use of imagery and dictation in some ways.

“In the next aisle, a few tins of sardines were strewn across the top shelf.”(pg62) this sentence shows the effectiveness of dictation by using the word “strewn” giving the reader insight on the limited amount of them.

Sebastian Dusharm

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Flashback.. when Jesse had a flashback of when his mother first left him and his brothers

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Metaphor
Smilie
Allusion