Literary Devices 2nd Block by https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0 Identify a literary device that you found in the book by typing out the quote and which device it is. Then, create your own example using the scene that you just pulled from and using the literary device you just identified. Then, add a visual that relates to the scene! en-us 2021-02-16 19:35:32 UTC 2025-12-15 11:43:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Example: kac2450 https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1208478383 "One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate those green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot" (Hosseini 340).
The literary device is a simile.
My example: "The apples in the tree were as green as the frogs that lived in our pond." ]]> 2021-02-16 19:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1208478383 Conner Marren https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215785731 Metaphor
“The bus was a sad carcass of rusted metal” (Hosseini 137)
My example: The weary and beaten riders on the bus were a fog around me, clouding my vision of the dissolved glory of the Kabul rubble.

]]> 2021-02-18 15:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215785731 Aurora Davis https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215792594 Biblical Allusion:
"He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver" (Hosseini 371)." 
My example: "The garden was so beautiful it could be compared to Eden".]]> 2021-02-18 15:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215792594 makenna https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794526 "I heard the leather of  Baba's seat cracking as he shifted on it" (Hosseini 22) 
this literary device is auditory imagery
my example: " I had my head pressed against the window so i could hear the low humming of the car driving down the street"]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794526 Norah Moore https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794614 Metaphor
“His patience with Zalmai was a well that ran deep and never dried” (Hosseini 264). 
My Example: 
Even with all the mischief he caused, Rasheed's patience for Zalmai was a overflowing forest brook. ]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794614 Lauren Maggio https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794731 Visual Imagery 
“His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. I felt like a prick.” (Hosseini). 
My example: His tears streamed down his face like a flowing waterfall.
]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215794731 Brooks Isear https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215795254  " Now they squatted at every street corner, dressed in shredded burlap rags, mud-caked hands held out for a coin" (Hosseini 245).
The literary device is visual imagery. Example: They sat in the laps of their burqa-clad mothers alongside gutters of busy street corners chanting "bakhdesh, bakhdesh!"


]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215795254 Emma Beke https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215796616 Simile
“Zalmai lay around the house, eyes dulled and half closed, or in his father’s lap, limp as a rag” (Hosseini 306).
My example: Zalmai's eyes were dulled like a gray sky because of his abundant hunger.]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215796616 micaela washington https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215797924 Personification: "It was the first time she'd eaten ice cream and Marian had never imagined that such tricks could be played on a palate" (73).   
my example: marian taste buds were too excited they were jumping up and down ]]> 2021-02-18 15:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215797924 Heiress Felder https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215800408 Personification
"Lila's heart jumped" (Hosseini 151)
One day me and my sister had a big performance in front of all these people. I was nervous but I knew I could do it but my heat jumped just like Lila's. I could feel and hear it but I stood on the strength and courage I had. ]]> 2021-02-18 15:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215800408 Lauren Monroe https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215800493 Simile 
"Laila could hardly move, as though cement had solidified in every one of her joints" (Hosseini 162)
My example:
Laila couldn't move, as if every part of her was made of stone]]> 2021-02-18 15:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215800493 Ben Novotny https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215819759 Personification
"So you're saying it grew little legs and walked out?" (Hosseini 233)
My example: The missing spoon had to grow wings and fly out the window because it was nowhere to be found.]]> 2021-02-18 16:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215819759 Elizabeth Roopra https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215883780 Visual Imagery Kite Runner: 
“The pink house with the steeply pitched roof had been the neighborhood’s only house of that color in the old days” (Hosseini 260).
My Example:
“He drove us into a wide street with fairly clean sidewalks and walled homes on either side”

*sorry, my picture wouldn’t upload!

]]> 2021-02-18 16:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215883780 Toni Mendez antoinettamendez https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215913190 “America was different. America was a river, roaring along, mindful of the past.”(Hosseini 114) 
The literary device is a metaphor
My example: The river is a runner, tumbling rapidly over the river bed.


]]> 2021-02-18 16:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1215913190 Elizabeth Roopra https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1216269693 Visual Imagery]]> 2021-02-18 17:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1216269693 Xavian J https://padlet.com/kac2450/97n8d4m7yfzhd4n0/wish/1265487019 Metaphor 
" she quickly fished her own flashlight from under the bed"( Hosseini 127) 
My example : "Fished for her own flashlight" tells me ,the reader , that whatever needs to be found is urgent and needs to be found soon. 



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