Question

After reading the passage from the Barrio boy, describe how the author uses connotations and figurative language to make his experience come to life?
the passage:
I realized that this was our own electric fight for us to turn on and off as we please. I pushed a chair under it and after some instruction from my mother proceeded to create lightning in the room by turning the switch as fast as I could. ​

Answer 1

Sample Response:

  The author uses metaphor to make it seem like he is really creating lightning. The positive language makes the experience seem fun and exciting.

Answer 2

Answer:

After reading the passage, I see how the author uses connotations and figurative language to make his experience come to life. The author uses a mix of postive and negitive connotations like "fast" as a positive connotation, and "lighting" as a negitive connotation. Though the author is using negitive connotation in the paragraph, the story itself is not meant to be negitive, rather exciting and uses figurtative language as a description. This is expressed through the phrases like, "electric fight" but the author hints at what they mean through the following context clues like, " for us to turn on and off as we please." Which indicated a light swich, and the electric that "fighting" through it. This make it feel like not just a light swich or power, but an electric storm that comes to life!