Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Book of Negroes Similes & Metaphors

Simile #1

"People assume that just because you don't stand as straight as a sapling, you're deaf." -pg.1

Simile #2

"In my early childhood, my ba was like a river, flowing on and on and on with me through the days, and keeping me safe at night." -pg.3

Simile #3

"Out I came, sliding from my mother like an otter from a riverbank." -pg.13

Metaphor #1 

"I long to hold my own children, and their children if they exist, and I miss them the way I'd miss limbs from my own body." -pg.2

Metaphor #2

"Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied." -pg.7

Metaphor #3

"Honey, I said, my life is a ghost story." -pg.4






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