Kaleo Regalmuto

Mr. Soerensen
2/4/13
Figures of speech

Similes:
Comparing two unlike things or objects using like or as
Ex: He black as the inside of a chimney.

1. But she can work like a man. pg.18
2. Wives is like children. pg.42
3. It stick out tween her teef like a piece of rubber. pg.87
4. It was big and heavy and speckled like a chicken pg.253
5. She say it real sad like she done run out of places to go pg.267
6. Theyre like white people at home who dont want colored people to learn pg.156
7. Most looked like theyd been drug across the yard by pigs pg.151
8. Grady drive like a fool, she say pg.108
9. They bring up children like military pg.98
10. It look like a swarm of lightning bugs all in and through Sofia house pg.74

Metaphors:
To compare 2 unlike things or objects without using like or as.
Ex: Her tongue the size of my arm.

1. But her mouth just pack with claws. pg.51
2. And she just about the color of an eggplant. pg.87
3. White folks is a miracle of affliction pg.103
4. Every stitch I sew will be a kiss. pg.192
5. Yellow like she is, stringy hair and cloudy eyes, the manll be crazy about her. pg.198
6. My heart is in my mouth and I cant move. pg.286


7. So and so is blacker than black, hes blueblack. pg.141
8. She came beaming across the ocean. pg.156.
9. I just vibrated. pg.143
10. Choking on my own heart pg.130

Onomatopoeia:
A sound word
Ex: Thump, thump, thump a plump and stout feet.

1. Love cant be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. pg.126

2. She double over groaning but come up with both hands lock right under his privates. pg.30

3. Through the window I hear Shug humming and humming, practicing her little song. pg.39

4. They fume. pg.157

5. Start hum a little tune. pg.38

6. Then she start moaning. pg.66

7. Little heads began to pop from behind mothers skirts. pg.81

8. Then there was loud whispering. pg.81

9. Mr. _____ reach over to slap me. pg.99

10. Too nappy to be kinky, too kinkey to be nappy. pg.107






Hyperbole:
An exageration
ex: She bout 10,000 times prettier than me.

1. You have to watch her or shell give away everything you own. pg.18
2. All the men got they eyes glued to Shugs bosom. pg.82


3. Tears falling all over the place. pg.221
4. By now I am almost crazy. pg.170
5. You was so skinny, lord, he say. And the least little thing happen, you looked about to fly
away. pg.253
6. She got one hundred pretty dresses. A room full of shoes. pg.101
7. Which all seem to have been made with giants in mind. pg.217
8. They have thousands of vases, jars, masks, bowls, baskets statues. pg.139
9. Huge perfect teeth. pg.157
10. One minute I was saying howdy to a living woman. The next minute nothing living was
there pg.131


Alliteration:
The repetition of a consonant sound in a sentence.
Ex: Trees and trees and then more trees on top of that.

1. Us three set together gainst tobias. pg.61
2. I dont fight, I stay where Im told. But Im alive. pg.22
3. Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me pg.22
4. Well, us talk and talk about god, but Im still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out
of my head pg.254

5. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. pg.113
6. He aint Shug, but he begin to be somebody I can talk to. pg.215
7. Trying to tie roof leaf twigs. pg.239
8. Tashi would have jammed his head though her rug loom. pg.273
9. In a few weeks we will all be home. pg.279
10. Mice, flies, lice pg.88



Personification:
To give humanistic qualities to an inanimate object
Ex: But even the sun seemed to stand a little longer over our heads.

1. Finally the car stop making any sound. Engine dead. pg.105
2. The land was being forces to lie flat. pg.169
3. Flags flying in its yard. pg.170
4. Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. pg.164
5. Im waiting for the feathers to fly. pg. 200
6. A little spark fly pg. 201
7. Its so quiet you can hear the embers dying back in the stove. pg.202
8. And it seemed to come to me from the trees. pg.206
9. The dirt say, Anything you do to me, already done to you. pg 207
10. Then she git all her pots going at once. pg 210