place where a group of nuns live

a literary device in which an author grants human qualities to nonhuman objects

A figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" or "as"

A scene showing events that happened at an earlier time

A device in which an episode ends at a moment of heightened tension

A figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Example: "A little cream stayed on his lower lip, a small yellow fish."

Example: "There was a tremendous streak of lightning. It lit up the porch, and the whole of the sky, and she could see in the distance a rowboat at the edge of the bay, about to cross through the edge of the marshes. It was Albert."

Example: "Gram's house was the last one on the canal. 'Where the ocean swoops in to fight with the bay,' she always said."

Example: "Lily had a quick picture of Eddie go through her mind, his square front teeth, a little separated, resting gently on his lower lip, his nose red. He always had a cold."

Example: "The days stretched out in front of her like long gray sheets on a wash line."

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Lily Vocab

Question	Answer
Duration	length of time
Drone	deep hum
Throttle	choke
Piling	wooden post
Trestle	braced framework
Spurting/Spewing	bursting
Viaduct	bridge
Insignia	emblem
Convent	place where a group of nuns live
Convoy	group of military vehicles
Trespassing	wrongfully entering
Pew	bench-like seat in a church
Vaguely	barely
Personification	a literary device in which an author grants human qualities to nonhuman objects
Similie	A figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" or "as"
Flashback	A scene showing events that happened at an earlier time
Cliffhanger	A device in which an episode ends at a moment of heightened tension
Metaphor	A figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared WITHOUT using "like" or "as"
Metaphor	Example: "A little cream stayed on his lower lip, a small yellow fish."
Cliffhanger	Example: "There was a tremendous streak of lightning. It lit up the porch, and the whole of the sky, and she could see in the distance a rowboat at the edge of the bay, about to cross through the edge of the marshes. It was Albert."
Personification	Example: "Gram's house was the last one on the canal. 'Where the ocean swoops in to fight with the bay,' she always said."
Flashback	Example: "Lily had a quick picture of Eddie go through her mind, his square front teeth, a little separated, resting gently on his lower lip, his nose red. He always had a cold."
Simile	Example: "The days stretched out in front of her like long gray sheets on a wash line."
Pact	Agreement
Irritable	Cranky
Scrawl	Scribble
Veered	Shifted
Anthem	Song of patriotism
Smuggled	Secretly transported
Trough	Long, narrow depression

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