I'm reading Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper!
VOCABULARY
1. zap (149)- to defeat by sudden force.
2. avail (153)- to have value or profit.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "Her shoulders hunch, a small cubicle of personal privacy" (153). This is a metaphor comparing hunched shoulders to a cubicle's privacy.
2. "I loved the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying--like the sun striking the cheek of a tomato, or soap drying on the hood of a car" (155). These are similies comparing his smell to tomatos and soap, both of which I find more than a little odd.
3. "I didn't answer, just got up on one elbow and kissed him so deep that the ground gave way" (156). This is personification because the ground doesn't just 'give way'.
QUOTE
"What I wanted, at that moment, was to be alone in the living room so that I could throw things, like the TV remote or the glass vase or preferably my sister" (150). Julia doesn't always get a long with her sister and their relationship contrasts that of Anna and Kate.
THEME
An emerging theme in this novel is heartbreak; Julia had her heart broken by Campbell in high school.
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