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Similes

acastrop0003 — 2023-09-06 21:04:24 UTC

Similes uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

"Eleven" example: "A collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope" -paragraph 8

"I'm feeling sick inside, like the part of me that is three wants to come out of my eyes." _paragraph 12

"Faraway like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky,so tiny you have to close your eyes to see it." _paragraph 22

"Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin band aid box." -paragraph 5

"Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion." -Paragraph 3

Personification

acastrop0003 — 2023-10-18 20:51:28 UTC

"A figurative device in which human attributes or feelings are given to an inanimate object or thing as if it were human"

"the emptiness roared at him" and "now it demanded food, screaming for food"- Hatchet chapter 5

Summarizing

acastrop0003 — 2023-11-16 21:41:27 UTC

"to state the most important ideas, events, and details in a text in your own words"

Paraphrase

acastrop0003 — 2023-11-16 21:42:45 UTC

"To restate an entire passage from a text in your own words"

Objective

acastrop0003 — 2023-11-16 21:43:55 UTC

"Undistorted by emotion or personal bias"

The good Samaritan

acastrop0003 — 2023-11-16 22:11:55 UTC

"In the story The Good Samaritan by Rene Saldana, Rey is the main character. The conflict that Rey faces is that Mr. Sanchez keeps taking advantage of them for doing his dirty work.To overcome this conflict, He sees Mr. Sanchez with a flat tire and recalls all the things he made him do but then remembers his father and how he looks exhausted just like him so he decides to help him to fix the flat tire. Finally Mr. Sanchez decides to invite Rey to a BBQ at his house but Rey decides to pass on the offer and go play football with his friends.