In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gary Schmidt utilizes varied literary devices to bring the setting and characters to life. For example, the author brings the sea breeze to life through personification. Examples of personification include:
"But then it fell panting in the hallway, gasping for breath." (p. 23)
"The sea breeze remembered that autumn wasn't far away and began to blow colder." (p. 212)
"The sea breeze found him and twisted around him." (p. 213)
Find other examples of personification, metaphor, similes, hyperbole, alliteration, etc., from Chapters 1-9. Provide two examples in your response to this blog post. Due Friday, February 3 by 4 p.m.
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT:
Tell the story of Turner and the citizens of Phippsburg and Malaga Island from the viewpoint of the sea breeze, giving the sea breeze a definite characterization and motivation. Follow typing guidelines. Email Mr. B or submit a hard copy. Worth 10 points. Due Friday, February 10.
1."the clouds let loose and skittered across the lowlands with a slanting rain until they hit the sea, and stopped to enjoy the view." -personification
ReplyDelete2."He did not know how long they had been with the whales. Maybe a century or two." -hyperbole
--Roland Martin
"The rain passed Turner, swept across Thayer's haymeadow, and swirled around the First Congregational" (p. 53)
ReplyDelete"By the next morning, gray clouds scuttled over the sea,muffling the sound of the waves and throttling hope of a sea breeze." (p. 105)
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Delete1. the rain came on gray and cold, with pattering with hard metalic fingers. p.108 -personification
ReplyDelete2. in late september the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples. p.126 -personification
"The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing head enough starch..." (pg. 21, simile)
ReplyDelete"He was surprised at how loudly his voice crackled around the room, as though it were electric and sparking up the paneled walls." (pg. 116, simile)
-Andrew Lathrop
1. pg. 100-101- personification; "One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing."
ReplyDelete2. pg. 122- personification; "He felt the quiet sea breeze stirring outside the house and peeking in at the window."
"The silver moon had set, and the racing stars had puffed out their fiery chests." (pg. 88-89 personifacation)
ReplyDelete"In late September, the sea breeze stole the gold from the maples, the silver from the aspens." (pg.126 personifacation)
Ashley
"The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing had enough starch to mummify two, maybe three, pharaohs, he began to feel he could hardly breathe."-hyperbole and simile (pg 21)
ReplyDelete-Evan Pattinelli
1. pg.7-metaphor: 'Bright and early, Mrs. Hurd stood on their porch, a fresh blueberry pie for the new minister and his family in her hands and the baseball game on her lips.'
ReplyDelete2. pg.76-personification: 'When Turner looked over his shoulders to the east, more than a few stars had already yawned themselves awake and were stretching to begin their run.'
Nichola G.
pg 81 hyperbole- 'He didn't know how long they'd been with the whales. Maybe a century or two.'
ReplyDeletepg 94 personification-'the mischief of the sea breeze was still hovering by the gate waiting for him to come.'
The oak leaves wrinkled at the edges, though they had no notion of going anywhere for a long while. (page 112-113-similie)
ReplyDeleteWhen they had thrown the ball back and fourth about a million times, they sat down together on the stones, the glove between them, watching the ripples the tide was sending closer and closer in, watching it slurp up the seaweed beds and start to cover... (page 57-hyperbole and personification)
1. (pg. 58) Personification/simile/vivid description/parallel writing- "Ahead of them, the beach was covered with stones, their hard outsides rubbed off and smoothed so that they glowed as the waves gathered them up and down. The granite ledges were streaked by a thousand shades of gray and silver, separated by slices of pink quartz that glowed like happiness. And the pines! The pines threw their roots around the shore's boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. And out of those rocks they thrust themselves into the air as if they might scratch the blue dome of heaven, and as they stretched back and forth trying to reach it, and as the sea stretched itself back and forth up the beach."
ReplyDelete2. (pg. 55) Simile- "She smiled, a smile as beautiful as the yellow day, and came down the steps, leaving her broom against a pot."
ReplyDelete1. (pg.158) Simile- " It seemed as solid as the granite on which it was built."
ReplyDelete2. (pg.116) Personification- " The sea breeze, wearing it's overcoat, followed him all the way until he closed the door on it."
JADE W.
ReplyDelete1. "Getting through supper was like being dangled on a spiderweb strand over hell." Pg.40 (smilie)
2. "The oars dewing raggedly at the water." Pg. 73 (hyperbole)
NICHOLAS D.
ReplyDeleteThat night, after a quiet and still supper, Turner sat by his window watching the late dusk turn purple, and suddenly there was the sea breeze again, chuckling and rolling down Parker Head, whipped three times aroung First Congregatonal and then rollicking across the street, up the clapboards of the parsonage, and to him, rustling his hair and scooted down the back of his shirt so that he shivered and laughed. - page 101
And every morning the sea breeze bustled up and called for Turner until he followed it to the shore where Lizzie waited for him, her bucket already half full of clams. - page 73
1. (pg. 21) personification- The only thing that saved him from absolute suffocation was the sea breeze somersaulting and fooling, first ahead, then behind, running and panting like a dog ready to play. And he followed it, pulling at his collar, trying not to wish what a minister's son would not wish.
ReplyDelete2. (pg. 56) simile-She caught it and held it like a dream that had dropped right out of the bright blue sky into her outstretched had.
"The grim silence circled the room like an eager tiger." p. 98 simile & personification
ReplyDelete"The new meadow was quiet with the tide slow and careful trying not to scrape itself against the shore rocks." p. 135-personification
1) pg. 6: It must have peaked somewhere in the stratosphere, because this time it came down screaming. -hyperbole & personification
ReplyDelete2) pg. 126: The breeze stole the gold from the maple, and the silver from the aspens. -personification
1] pg:79 Personification-The moon had roused herself fully out of the sea and was tossing her silver bedclothes all around.
ReplyDelete2] pg.100-101 Personification- The sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing.
OLIVIA W.
ReplyDeleteEverything faded from gray to grayer still, so soon there was hardly any color, and then the grey was so dark that Turner couldn't see through it. And suddenly there was the moon, joking around in the haze and tossing a dull light that shimmered the fog to the color of old pearls. Personification and metaphor. Page 41
By the next morning, gray clouds scuttled over the sea, muffling the sound of the waves and throttling the hope of of a sea breeze. Personifacation. Page 105
SEBASTIAN D.
ReplyDelete"Mister, I can shimmy a ball down a line so pretty, there isn't a soul on God's green earth that can even get near it." Page 3 Hyperbole
"the ball meandered down from about a mile above his head, he flailed at it as if it were a bumblebee." Page 4 Personification/ Simile.
Page 17: Personification- as the soft boughs laid their gentle, dry hands against her laughing face.
ReplyDeletePage 81: Hyperbole- he didn't know how long they had been with the whales. Maybe a century ot two.
1. simile/personification/hyperbole-The only thing that saved him from absolute suffocation was the sea breeze somersaulting and fooling, first ahead, than behind, running and panting like a dog ready to play. Page 21
ReplyDelete2. metaphor- "Turner Buckminster," she said, her voice like the dry rustling of fallen leaves. Page 14
Page 108:The rain came on gray and cold, patteing with hard, metalic fingers at the panes of Mrs. Cobb's parlor.
ReplyDeletePage 112: amd she was listening to her sweet high voice as if it were the first spring day.
Jason Katsof
Page:116 Personification
ReplyDeleteThe breeze was looking for some maples to scorch or a beech to blanch.
Page:101 simile
The grandfather clock was tolling like a bell in his ears.
Personification: And suddenly there was the moon, joking around in the haze and tossing a dull light that shimmered the fog to the color of old pearls-pg 41
ReplyDeletePersonification and Simile: The just and perfect Willis Hurd walked past him easily, but the fog embraced Turner like a vampire, and it whispered, "You are not one of us."-pg 85
Alina Giapis
ReplyDeletePg. 134-Personification and Hyperbole-Muddy palm in muddy palm they sat, and the sea breeze was quiet. Not even the gulls called out. And Turner did not care if Willis Hurd called down the whole town of Phippsburg upon them. "You don holding my hand yet?"asked Lizzie after a season or two.
Pg. 138-Similie and Personification-As he swung, he broke his wrists forward and took the ball as if it were as big as a melon and sent it skittering and skating along the beams of silver light, twirling it foul far, far off into the woods beyond third base, higher than any pine trees Phippsburg might set against it, high and far and gone forever.
1) pg. 6 It must have peaked some where in the stratosphere, because this time it came down screaming. Hyperbole and personification.
ReplyDelete2) pg. 51 The intoning went on, its bulk boating and bloating so that Turner thought the very ceiling might be pushed up. Hyplerbole
by conrad jensen
1) Personification- pg. 91 The sermon slouched along as sermons usually will, but it got to the point that every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade.
ReplyDelete2)Personification- pg. 126 The oaks browned: the peaches paled. And in general disheartening, the leaves let go too, twirled and somersaulted, and finally settled down to sleep.
1) Foreshadowing-- Tonight, something would happen to Mrs. Cobb's house. (pg. 173)
ReplyDelete2) Personification-- The rain came on gray and cold, pattering with hard, metallic fingers at the panes of Mrs. Cobb's parlor.(pg. 108)
MIKE V.C.
ReplyDeleteSimile- She's as black as the ace of spades!
Simile-He's got this shotgun that he waves around like Ulysses S. Grant.
TYLER R.
ReplyDelete#1: page 57,hiperboly- after they had thrown the ball about 1 million times.
#2: page 6, simile- flailed at it as if it were a bumblebee
These are two of my favorite personifications,similes, or metaphors:
ReplyDelete#1 pg.95 second to last paragraph- simile/metaphor "Turner climbed back up the ledges,with a pile of loneliness on on his back as heavy as nightfall."
#2 pg.95 last paragraph-personification"The sea breeze had scooted the heat of the day out in front of it."
by Miles Ogden
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