Quarter 2 Post 7A

VOCABULARY
1. capitulated (131) - to have come to terms, given up resistence. (verb)
2. abhorrent (182) - causing repugnance or aversion, loathsome, detestable, in conflict. (adj.)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "'Hey," he said as someone behing me beeped angrily before whizzing past" (145). This is an onomatopia because the words beeped and whizzing sound like the noises they represent.
2. "Driving into that dark bay, the water suddenly whooshing down like the biggest and most sudden thunderstorm ever" (240). This is a similie because it compares the car wash to a thunderstorm using like or as.
3. "I had a flash of my mother's face an hour earlier, how her eyes had widened when Whitney pushed back her chair, then slammed it against the table, making all our plates jump" (252). This is personification, because a plate can't really jump.

QUOTE
"'Totally honest, totally opinionated. But I guess you already know that.' Whitney just looked at me as he said this, and I knew what she was thinking: that this was not me at all, not by a long shot" (181). Owen sees Annabel as the person she has become and in the few weeks they've known eachother they've learned a lot about eachother and I think that it's interesting that Owen knows her better than her own sister does.

THEME
A theme in this novel is discovering yourself; ever since the first night of the summer in June, Annabel has reinvented herself without really realizing it and Owen made her see that change in herself.