Prompt:
Sue Monk Kidd (the author of Secret Life of Bees) is a figurative language master. She uses a variety of literary and figurative language elements. These include:
* Simile
* Metaphor
* Personification
* Alliteration
* Allusion (biblical, historical, literary)
* Onomatopoeia
* Rhetorical Questions
* Foreshadowing
Response Requirement:
Find examples of these literary devices throughout your reading. Use your sticky notes to aid you in posting.
* Identify first THE ELEMENT, then the quote, the page number, and why you believe it is a specific element.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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Simile: A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as.
ReplyDeletePg 28 "But the bees remained there, like planes on a runway not knowing they'd been cleared for takeoff."
Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect
Pg 11 " When she stepped in the room, her scent floated out to me, dark and spicy like the snuff she packed inside her cheek."
Onomatopoeia: The use of words that mimic sounds.
Pg 22 "That night I lay in bed listening to the flicks and twitters and thrums inside the bee jar,"
Allusion: A reference to a person, place or thing in history.
Pg 2: " I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed."
1. Simile- “…her breath floating down to me like a tiny parachute…” page 7
ReplyDeleteI believe that this quote is a simile because it uses the word “like” to compare two things. The author compared Lily’s mom’s breath to a tiny parachute. Therefore, this is a simile.
2. Metaphor- “A gauze bandage the size of a baby’s diaper was wrapped around her head.” page 46
I believe that this quote from the book is a metaphor because it is comparing the gauze bandage on Rosaleen’s head with a baby’s diaper. She was saying how big it was and how it seemed like Rosaleen was wearing a baby’s diaper around her head.
3. Personification- “Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”
I think this quote is personification because it’s giving loss life like qualities. Loss is not a living thing, so giving it life like qualities shows personification. It says that loss eats right through it, but that’s not possible because loss is not a living thing. It cannot eat anything. Thus, this quote is personification.
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I have identified many similes throughout my reading. For example, on page 70, "I didn't know what to think, but what i felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. I believe that this quote is a simile because its comparing two unlike things using like.
ReplyDeleteAnother simile i have found in the reading is on page 1, "During the day i heard them tunneling through the walls of my bedroom, sounding like a radio tuned to static in the next room." i also believe that this quote is a simile because it compares two unlike things using like or as.
The last literary element i have found is onomatopoeia. I have found this on page 4, " Finally, sometime close to midnight when my eyelids had nearly given up the strain of staying open, a purring noise started over in the corner, low and vibrating, a sound you could almost mistake for a cat." I believe that this is onomatopoeia because it is using words that imitate the sound.
Throughout my reading, I found many examples of literary devices that Sue Monk Kidd had included in this novel. These are only some examples of literary elements that I found.
ReplyDeleteThe first example I found was a simile. "She tugged in toward her knees, but it slipped back like a piece of elastic." This quote was found on page 47 of the book. I believe that this quote is a simile because it used the word like to compare Rosaleen's hospital gown to a piece of elastic. Similes usually use the word like to compare one thing to another. Therefore, this quote is an example of a simile.
Next, I discovered an example of a rhetorical question. "...and who could say how long before she'd be back in jail or even killed?" I had found this quote on page 63. I think that this quote is an example of a rhetorical question because it is not really meant to be answered. You just think about it, you don't actually have to answer the question. That is the point of a rhetorical question. The reader is just supposed to contemplate the question.
Another example that I found was of the literary element, personification. "Finally I walked to the window and gazed at the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arm in gestures of pure beseeching." This quote was found on page 40. This quote is an example of personification because it is giving the peach trees life like qualities. It is saying that they held up their leafy 'arms' in gestures of pure beseeching, which is impossible because trees do not have arms. Trees only have branches. Also, when it says that they made gestures of pure beseeching, that is also not possible because trees cannot beg eagerly for something.