Keeping the Night Watch
Hope Anita Smith
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FINDER: you read, create a chart tracking the figurative language mentioned in the poetry and throughout the verse novel. A sample chart below has been created for you, but you are free to create a different graphic organizer or chart that suits your liking and still meets assignment expectations.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
POETIC PHRASEFall"Only I know his words are plastic." (Page 4 Line 27)
"They sugarcoat it" (Page 5 Line 4) "And her eyes well up with tears." (Page 6 Line 24) "But my question are brick heavy" (Page 8 Line 24) "Byron hears the ball kiss the pavement and." (Page 10 Line4) "waving the white flag of surrender" (Page 13 Lien13 "I am a prince who climbs a trellis of hair" (page 14 Line 10) "we can't cook together" (page 16 Line 21) "He is a shadow long and full, leaving little room for loght and making it hard to see me"(page17 Line 1&2) "She laid herself out in the front door like a welcome mat" (page 19 Line 25&26) "She wants to del with the problem head-on" (page 21 Lien 11) "I am a stranger in my own house" (page 22 Line 3) "I am the family jeweler" (page 23 Line7) "We hold our thoughts and feeling hostage." (page 24 Line 3) "I'm as consent as the moon." (page 26 Line 8) "by an avalanche of forgiveness." (page 28 Line 12) "wedged in between me and Zuri." (page 31 Line 14-15) "Clings to everything it touches." (page 32 Lie 3) "Left-handed folks would wind up in elbow facing machines with right handed folks." (page 34 Lien 17-18) "breaking through, getting to the other side" (page 37 Line 18-19) Spring"Her voice is like a fairy's magic wand; she only has to speak and I'll obey." (page 43 Line 7-8)
"Preacher's eyes are ablaze and his words are rock hard.' (page 44 Line 3-4) "The receiver is my fortress." (page 46 Line 7) "The permission slip only required one parents's signature. Piece of cake." (page 47 Line 1-3) "Offense. Defense. Our fence." (page 51 Line 20) "of bored jocks looking for new prey to prey upon."(page 52 Line 17-18) "time is my ladder and every minute adds a rung." (page 54Line 13-14) "preacher claims I'm a thief because I steal glances at her and store them in my head." (page 57Line 7-8) " I am God making mountains of shaving cream in the palms of my hand." (page 58Line 12-14) "My eyes nearly popped out of my head." (page 61 Lien 25-26) "A women can bring a mandown faster than any fist." (page 63 Line 11-12)
"Fathers who leave, keep paying even when hey come back." (page 67 Line 6) "The thump, thump of let it go." (page 68 Line 6-7) "Emotions were strewn about and still we just kept stepping over, around, and on them." (page 70 Line 6-8) "Grandmomma becomes the melody; and Byron and Zuri, her perfect harmony." (page 72 Line 14-15) |
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