Thursday, September 30, 2010

Fun with Figurative Language, Part II

 Today we began with the warm up below and spent the rest of the day playing a little game to practice figurative language.
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Examine the quotation below.  Identify the figurative device Silko relies on here.  How does her use of this device impact the meaning of the quotation?  Be specific.
“[Tayo] could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present, tangled up like colored threads from old Grandma’s wicker sewing basket when he was a child, and he had carried them outside to play and they had spilled out of his arms into the summer weeds and rolled away in all directions, and then he had hurried to pick them up before Auntie found him”(7).

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