Quarter 2 Post 1A

I'm reading Just Listen by Sarah Dessen and I love it!



VOCABULARY

1. Stony (12) - (adj.) Hardhearted, unfeeling, unemotional.

2. Adenoidal (7) - (adj.) pinched /nasal in tone quality due to enlarged adenoids. This is normally(like in this book) due to allergies.



FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1."As people streamed past,"(p. 3). This is a metaphor because it is comparing people to water or something that flows, such as a stream or creek.

2."While he poured my drink I could feel the girl behind me, her presence like a weight," (p. 5). This is a similie because it compares her presence with a weight using like or as.

3."I turned my head, and there was this girl, a total stranger, standing there in a skimpy orange bikini and matching thick platform flip-flops. She had olive skin, and thick, curly dark hair pulled up into a ponytail, and was wearing black sunglasses with a bored, impatient expression" (p. 4). This is imagery because it paints a picture of Sophie in the reader's head.



QUOTE

"The camera moved in, closer, closer, until all you could see was my face, the rest dropping away. This had been before that night, before everything had happened with Sophie, before this long, lonely summer of secrets and silence. I was a mess, but this girl- she was fine"(2). Annabel is watching a commercial of her that was filmed before her big drama with Sophie. She sees a perfect girl with friends and everything that you could want, and now she doesn't have anything.



THEME

An emerging theme in the novel is friendships falling apart; Annabel was good friends with Sophie until she did something that Sophie could not forgive her for (I don't know yet!).