FigurativeLanguageAssignmentReadingNotebook 2

Interpreter Figurative Language Assignment:
For your reading notebook this week:

1. Summarize the book that you are currently reading.
2. Find two pieces of figurative language that we discussed in class in your independent
reading book. State the figurative language you have found, write the sentence(s),
include the page number that the figurative language is on, and explain why is it
figurative language. The requirement is to find TWO examples of figurative language.
Only one example can be a simile or a metaphor. The second example must be something
other than a simile or a metaphor.
3. The reading notebook entry should be TWO FULL pages in your reading notebook.
This is due by Monday, April 27th.
See my post on Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as an exemplar on the next page.
(I provided three examples of figurative language as a guide for you, but you only
need to include two examples)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 4/20/15
When a father needs to leave his four children and wife to make money for the
family, someone must stand up and take control. The Logan Family lives in Mississippi
at the climax of the Great Depression and deals with racism and segregation. Stacey
Logan, the oldest of the children in Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My
Cry, quickly develops from a boy to a young man in order to protect and lead his younger
siblings from mental and physical abuse for being African-American children.
Stacey’s only responsibility at the beginning of the novel was to walk with his
brothers and sister to school. He and his siblings would fight on the way to school, but it
was typical sibling bickering. Towards the end of the novel, Stacey takes on a lot more
responsibilities. He rapidly realizes the seriousness of the segregation and wants nothing
more than his siblings to be safe. The family realizes that Stacey has developed into a
man and that his main focus is to protect his family.
An example of figurative language from the text stated, “August dawned blue and
hot. The heat swooped low over the land clinging like an invisible shroud, and through it
people moved slowly, lethargically, as if under water. In the ripening fields the drying
cotton and corn stretched tiredly skyward awaiting the coolness of a rain that
occasionally threatened but did not come, and the land took on a baked, brown look”
(Taylor 227). The author gave the month, August, human characteristics. Within this
passage, she also used a simile. “The heat swooped low over the land clinging like an
invisible shroud.” Here, the heat was all around the land that it was as if the entire land
had an invisible, heavy blanket on. “The cotton and corn stretched tiredly.” The author
gave corn and cotton human characteristics of being tired from the heat. “The land took
on a baked, brown look” also uses personification because the author gives the land a
human characteristic of looking tan.
Another example of figurative language from the text stated, “Slowly, his muscles
flexing tightly against his thin shirt and the sweating popping off his skin like oil on
water” (Taylor 225). This uses the figurative language of a simile because it compares
two things using like. Mr. Morrison had sweat pouring off his body that it looked like oil
was on water. It gave me a great image of how sweaty he was.
Another example of figurative language from the text stated, “The man was a
human tree in height, towering high above Papa’s six feet two inches. The long trunk of
his massive body bulged with muscles, and his skin, of the deepest ebony, was partially
scarred upon his face and neck, as if by fire. Deep lifelines were cut into his face and his
hair was splotched with gray, but his eyes were clear and penetrating" (Taylor 34). The
author used a metaphor in this passage to compare Mr. Morrison as a tree. Mr. Morrison
was extremely tall in height, just as a tree is. Mr. Morrison’s muscular body is compared
to the tree’s thick trunk. His skin was dark such as a tree’s bark. His skin had scarred
lines just as a tree has lines along its bark.

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