"The point of the pen will not travel the path I have planned." Jane is expecting the pen to create what she wants with her nondominant hand but is disappointed to find that the pen can't move alone, it needs something guide it. pg.141
Example: "...she just lies on the floor near her bowl and starves herself." Rachel's dog Madison is "starving" herself by not eating out of depression.
An example of personification in Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is on page 78 when he is talking about baseball and he says, "You have wide arms, you can take everyone in." He is trying to say that everyone can love baseball.
"like your one-week pneumonia- must have come out of nowhere, and before you could yell for help or do anything at all about it, it wrapped its claws around you" pg 57
An example of personification in the novel I read was "It is my son's bright future that concerns me. I don't want it lost in the slanting chasm of this busy concrete forest with its neon snares and its jazzy traps." pg.42
"These streets are vicious. These streets are wild. These streets have mouths. They'll eat you, child!"-Amiri & Odette, pg. 4 A very dangerous, unpredictable neighborhood is said to have a mouth that can eat you.
The Trial by Jen Bryant
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"...the field where we play baseball and run footraces in summer, asleep now under snow."
But this just knocked him out!
ReplyDeleteThis is saying that the movie knocked God out.
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A personification in shakespeare bats cleanup is "the fire writhes and snaps"pg.109
ReplyDeleteHalf my brain was figuring out x while the other half was wondering. page 47 pieces of georgia
ReplyDelete"screamed this morning's headline" page 27
ReplyDelete"What is a huge fist of pissed-off wind punches one of these pitiful wings right off?"
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" city after midnight creeping in shadows "
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"our eyes glued to the screen" page 118
ReplyDeleteA example of personification in Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes is " The hard slap of my fathers words bring tears to my eyes."(P.47)
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Shark Girl pg. 197
ReplyDelete"I listen to the rain pounding on the roof..."
He speaks to me with his hands dancing
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Pg.30
ReplyDelete...the roar of the fire. Fire can't roar but humans can. Pg.44
ReplyDelete"in my stomach is my liver laughing to be alive again" pg 35
ReplyDeleteWhen talking about a gun in wolf pack, "The roar was so loud." P.23
ReplyDelete"My stomache is so tight.." page 90
ReplyDelete"My stomache is so tight.." page 90.
ReplyDelete(He is telling why his chair is like a "Pleasently Plump Momma"
ReplyDelete"It sits over there in the corner,
Sitting quietly,
Silently,
Waiting for me"
They want to flatten everyone all the time. Pg. 241 Doesnt actually want to flatten them, they want to put them down and make them feel bad.
ReplyDelete“When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me” -pg. 13
ReplyDelete"The tangerine on my desk glows with excitement." page 29, Shakespeare makes the playoffs. This give the tangerine emotion and it makes it glow.
ReplyDelete"The point of the pen will not travel the path I have planned." Jane is expecting the pen to create what she wants with her nondominant hand but is disappointed to find that the pen can't move alone, it needs something guide it. pg.141
ReplyDeletePieces of Georgia pg.96 "(paintings) can tell you a lot."
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ReplyDeleteExample: "...she just lies on the floor near her bowl and starves herself." Rachel's dog Madison is "starving" herself by not eating out of depression.
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"When exhaustion finally hits me, I fall into bed." pg.94
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ReplyDelete" It screamed this morning's headline very loud."
An example of personification in Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is on page 78 when he is talking about baseball and he says, "You have wide arms, you can take everyone in." He is trying to say that everyone can love baseball.
ReplyDelete"Pigs bathing"
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"like your one-week pneumonia-
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and before you could yell for help or do anything at all about it,
it wrapped its claws around you"
pg 57
an example of personification in heartbreak is "her heart beat angrily."
ReplyDeletehearts dont have feelings. p.27
"and a potted red geranium that guards the front porch" pg.3
ReplyDelete42 miles pg8 quiet falls like the darkness
ReplyDeleteAn example of personification in the novel I read was "It is my son's bright future that concerns me. I don't want it lost in the slanting chasm of this busy concrete forest with its neon snares and its jazzy traps." pg.42
ReplyDeleteSong of the Sparrows
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"...the flames from the central bonfire and surrounding smaller fires leap and dance."
"... As the flames from the central bonfire and surrounding smaller fires leap and dance." Song of the Sparrow. page 99 personification
ReplyDelete"Sure as meat makes a pie" in Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill on pg 69
ReplyDelete"His fingers tuck between mine like they know where to go".
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"The rob is stripped and nobody has time to get a new one". Page 10.
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"These streets are vicious.
ReplyDeleteThese streets are wild.
These streets have mouths.
They'll eat you, child!"-Amiri & Odette, pg. 4
A very dangerous, unpredictable neighborhood is said to have a mouth that can eat you.
Personification is when the girls mom is pregnant and the family compares the baby in her stomach to an alien. Such as alien baby.
ReplyDelete" all the animals an plants think about what they did last times, and plan for the next times. " -Witness pg.96
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