Prompt:
Sue Monk Kidd (the author of Secret Life of Bees) is a figurative
language master. She uses a variety of literary and figurative language
elements. These include:
* Simile
* Metaphor
* Personification
* Alliteration
* Allusion (biblical, historical, literary)
* Onomatopoeia
* Rhetorical Questions
* Foreshadowing
Response Requirement:
Find four examples of literary devices throughout your reading. Use your sticky notes to aid you in posting.
* Identify first THE ELEMENT, then the quote, the page number, and why you believe it is a specific element.
This element is personification. “The wind whipped my hair and flooded the truck with a weedy, new mown smell.” This was found on page 124. This is personification because it’s giving the wind a human trait. Personification is when you use human traits on a non living thing. In this quote it’s talking about how the wind whipped her hair.
ReplyDeleteThis element is a simile. A simile is a comparison using like or as. In this case it is “like” “I started to laugh like somebody was holding me down and tickling my armpits.” (Page 125) It is comparing her laughing to someone holding her down and tickling her armpits.
This element is a simile. (Page 126) “He moved like a person with a genuine love of bees.” A simile is a comparison using like or as. It is comparing how he moves to a person with a genuine love of bees.
This element is another simile. “I stretched out my arms like I was pushing back invisible walls of air.” (Page 131) This is comparing the way she stretched her arms. It’s a comparison using like or as. Sue Monk Kidd is a great writer, and I love the way she incorporates figurative language to make the story more interesting and it makes you want to keep reading to find out what is next!
Simile- "I imagined us building a snow cave, sleeping with our bodies twined together to get warm, our arms and legs like black and white braids." Pg. 124. This is a simile because it is comparing Lily and Zach's twined legs to a black and white braid, using the word "like".
ReplyDeletePersonification- "Finally it drained out of me, whatever it was." Pg. 125. This is personification because Lily is saying that a feeling was being drained out of her.
Foreshadowing- "Or maybe desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died in by. You gotta imagine what's never been, Zach has said." Pg. 126. I think this is foreshadowing because Lily is hinting to the reader that she is going to go for what's out of the ordinary to show its normal to like someone of a different skin color. This quote makes me think she's going to fall in love with him if she hasn't already.
Simile- "Then the whole side of my face started to vibrate as if the music had rushed into my pores." Pg. 148. This is a simile because it is comparing how the music felt to her face, using the word "as".
One type of literary element used in The Secret Life of Bees is a simile. There are many similes in this book. One example of a simile is on page 55, when Lily is wading into a creek after she and Rosaleen run away from home. "The water felt like a glacier melting against my legs" is how Lily describes the feeling of the water. This is a simile because Lily is comparing the water to a glacier using the word "like." Another literary element that is used often in this book is personification. An example of this is "a leftover smile pulled the corners of his [T. Ray's] mouth" on page 39. A smile is not a living thing, so it cannot pull anything. Therefore, this is personification.
ReplyDeleteSue Monk Kidd uses metaphors to compare things, as well. One metaphor that Kidd uses is to compare the world and a bee yard on page 92. "She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places." The world and a bee yard are being compared without using the words "like" or "as". Some scenes in the story predict what will happen later on in the story. This literary element is called "personification". An example of personification in the novel is on page 222. A suicide note from May reads, "Come on. Don't mess up your time to live." I think that this foreshadows that Lily will try to live her life to the fullest and possibly tell Zach her true feelings for him, despite their different skin colors.
1. Allusion "Jesus had righteous indignation when he turned over the tables in the temple and drove out the thieving moneychangers." pg. 87 This is an allusion because they reference Jesus, a biblical figure.
ReplyDelete2. Simile "He looked like a very studious mechanic." pg. 104 I believe this is a simile becuase Neil is compared to a mechanic.
3. Simile and Metaphor "She'd said he ran like the wind, which might be his ticket to a college up north." pg. 117 I believe this is a simile becuase it compared his running to wind using like or as. This also a metaphor becuase it said his fast running is his ticket to a college without using like or as.
4. Personification "I closed my eyes, and the balloon full of craving finally burst open in my chest..." pg 134 This is a personification because it gave craving a human action. Craving burst open her chest is a personification.
Week 2 Option 13
ReplyDelete1.)Simile "She rested her hands and smiled, like this had dredged up a sweet, long-lost memory." pg.139 I believe this is a simile because it is comparing the way she rests her hands to thinking of a "sweet, long-lost memory." This used like to compare the two.
2.)Personification and Simile "We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me in places, like an actual shawl." pg.146 I believe the first part of this is personification because it is giving stories the ability to be "pulled soft around our shoulders." I beleive the second part of this is a simile because it is comparing the way stories touch people to the way an actual shawl does. This comparison is using like.
3.)Personification "...trying to step around a great big pile of T.Ray's nasty mood but usually landing right in it." pg.153 I believe this is personification because it is saying that a person is able to step around a mood.
4.)Metaphor "She was crazy about Nat King Cole, and she returned, with the volume up, frowning in that way people do when they bite into something and it tastes so delicious they appear to be in pain over it." pg.155 I believe this is a metaphor because it is comapring August's expression to the expression of someone who "[bit] into something and it tastes so delicious they appear to be in pain over it." It was compared not using like or as.
Simile: ...she said, patting the side of the spinner like it was a god dog.Pg 77 This is a simile because it is comparing the way she is touching the spinner with how you would touch a good dog.
ReplyDeleteMetaphor: The tops of the trees were postage stamps of white shine.pg 79 This is a metaphor because the tops of trees are being compared to how postage stamps shine.
Foreshadowing: How did bees become equated to sex? They do not live a riotous sex life themselves.Pg 115 This foreshadows a relationship with Zach and Lily that is more than friends.
Personification: His voice knew everything worth knowing.Pg 88 This is personification because a voice cannot know anything the author is using this to describe his voice.
Andrew Lawson
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Language Arts, Period 7
March 25, 2011
Week 2 Option 13
Simile: “I started to laugh like somebody was holding me down tickling my arm pits.” pg.125. This is a simile because it is comparing her laugh to when someone is tickling her and making her giggle incessantly.
Personification: “The statue standing proud in the praise house…” pg.141. This is an example of a personification because the black Mary statue takes a life like quality by standing proud.
Simile/Personification: “She tore open her blouse so the pale yellow buttons went flying like popped corn.” pg.89. This is a simile because it’s comparing the buttons flying like popped corn and also a personification because buttons cannot really fly.
Rhetorical Questions: “Had she worn thin nylon gowns to bed? Did she bobby-pin her hair?” pgs. 98-99. These are two examples of rhetorical questions because Lily is laying in bed thinking to herself and not talking to anyone else.
Simile: “I noticed she carried a musical bow tucked under her arm like a riding whip.” This literary element can be found on page 68. This is a simile because it compares the musical bow to a riding whip using like.
ReplyDeletePersonification: “…his boots whispered uncle all the way down the hall.” This can be found on page 12. This is personification because it gave the boots the human trait of whispering.
Simile: “She was black as she could be, twisted like driftwood from being out in the weather.” This can be found on page 70. This is a simile because it compares the statue Mary to driftwood being out in the weather using like.
Metaphor: “her face a map of all the storms and journeys she’s been through.” This literary element can be found on page 70 as well. This is a metaphor because it compares the face of the statue Mary to a map of storms and journeys without using like or as.
Simile. “Of course everybody jumped up like she was an unpinned grenade and tried to quiet her, but it was too late.” Page 89. This quote is a simile because it compares how May's sobbing was like a unpinned grenade. The author tells us that May may burst out crying at any moment.
ReplyDeleteSimile. “Our mother said she (May) was like Mary, with her heart on the outside of her chest.” Page 97. This quote is a simile because it compares May with Mary, how they both had their hearts on the outside of their chests. They felt everything the world felt.
Onomatopoeia. “At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. Page 1. This quote is an example of onomatopoeia because the author uses “zzzzzz” to describe the noise the bees make.
Onomatopoeia. “I heard Rosaleen make a sound like Hmmmph, and I knew she was thinking about her own sorry husband, wishing he hadn't shown up for their ceremony.” Page 103. This quote is an example of onomatopoeia because the author is trying to recreate the sound Rosaleen made when she thought of her husband.
I have found four of the many literary elements used in "The Secret Life of Bees". One of them is a simile. Found on page 84, it says, "(...)and your irritated skin glow like a baby's bottom." I know this is a simile because the quote states a comparison using 'like'. Another element I found is a personification. It is, "When on its side, the brick announced a happy bee family(...)", and this was found on page 93. I know this is a personification because the quote states that the brick is announcing something, which is a human action. Another element I found was a metaphor. On page 94, it says, "She pulled out a brood frame, a canvas of whirling blacks and grays, with rubbings of silver.". I know this is a metaphor because it compares two things, without using 'like' or 'as'. One last literary element I found was an onomatopoeia. It is, "(...)and the electric percolator bubbled into the tiny glass nozzle on top of it. Bloop, bloop.", and it was found on page 102. I know this is an onomatopoeia because 'bloop, bloop' is the sound of the water dripping in the context. These were only a few of the literary elements used in "The Secret Life of Bees".
ReplyDeleteSimile: "The water felt like a glacier melting against my legs." Pg. 55 This is a simile because it is comparing two things using like.
ReplyDeleteSimile: “I noticed she carried a musical bow tucked under her arm like a riding whip.” Pg. 68 This is a simile because it is comparing two things using like.
Metaphor: "The tops of the trees were postage stamps of white shine." Pg 79 This is a metaphor because it is comparing two things without using like or as.
Allusion: "Jesus had righteous indignation when he turned over the tables in the temple and drove out the thieving moneychangers." Pg. 87 This is an allusion because it is referring to a historical figure which in this case is Jesus.