Target Goal: I can analyze the use of figurative language in order to understand characterization, mood, setting…In essence, what is the author trying to convey though the figurative language?
1. “The bull. He was huge and fearsome and as black as midnight, and he was watching us. I saw his dark eyes blink and his velvet nostrils twitch, and I hoped greatly that the fence around him was stronger than the one Daisy had plowed through” (Donnelly 118).
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2. “I leave the kitchen and head back to the attic. I tell my feet to keep going, to take me directly upstairs, but they have their own ideas” (Donnelly 136).
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3. “I look at it—I can’t help myself—and the questions I’ve kept penned up all day rush at me thumping and squealing like my pa’s pigs at feeding time” (137).
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4. “Then I slid my other foot forward. Nothing, then two more cracks, as sharp and sudden as gunshots” (140).
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5. “He said the noise alone would take your breath away” (148).
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6. “We just loved the telling. My uncle has a beautiful North Woods voice. You can hear the dry bite of January morning in it and the rasp of wood smoke. His laughter is the sound of a creek under ice, low and rushing” (149).
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7. “It was a pen […] It was as shiny as a minnow in its bed of black felt” (152).
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8. “His friend let us have our pick of boats, and Royal rowed us out onto Big Moose and didn’t do anything stupid or show-offy, like trying to stand up in the boat, and I sat facing him and let the perfection of a spring day in the North Woods take my breath away” (187).
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