Tuck ch 13-14/ and Figurative Language

"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."

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• Personification

"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

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"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."

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"In fact, he seemed supremely nice to her now, a kind of savior."

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"The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

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• Metaphor

• Personification

"If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all coming running like pigs to slops."

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• Personfication

"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

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"Everything is a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."

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Who is 17 years old, youngest son, free spirit

• Toad

• Jesse Tuck

• Winnie

Mother of the Tuck Family, untidy, kind, compassionate.

• Mae Tuck

• Winnie

• Winne's Grandmother