Identify the figurative language in “Marigolds”? Literary terms with definitions have been provided for your support!
Simile – comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Imagery – using sensory details to create a visual for the reader
Metaphor – comparison of two unlike things not using “like or “as”
Personification – giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
1. “Poverty was the cage in which we all were trapped.”
2. “The half-dawn light was more eerie than complete darkness, and in it the old house was like the ruin that my world had become.”
3. "My father whittled toys for us, and laughed so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with him."
4. “Dust the brown, crumbly dust of late summer arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet”
5. “Dust the brown, crumbly dust of late summer arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.”
6. “My father, who was the rock in which this family had been built.”
7. "Everything was suddenly out of tune like a broken accordion."
8. “a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust Miss Lottie’s marigolds”
9. “Long after the sobbing and humming I lay on the pallet still as stone.”
10. “My mother's voice was like a cold, dark room in summer." (Can you identify more than one?)
<em>Ember's current storerooms were so dark and their was no natural light.</em> <em>They children's were also frightened because they suspected that the lights may go off and the generator may also fail that would leave them helpless in the dark surroundings of the storerooms.</em>
She has never heard her father cry, which scares her because it is unlike what she expects. Her mom is comforting her father, not arguing with him, and she is not thinking about Miss Lottie at this point.
