Week 5, Post A

Nineteen Minutes


VOCAB
1.) Testimony (425): evidence in support of a fact or statement; proof.
2.) Amoebas (237):having no definite form and consisting of a mass of protoplasm containing one or more nuclei surrounded by a flexible outer membrane.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1.) Similie. "She felt Matt's hand stroke her hair, and that only made her cry harder; tenderness cut as sharp as any knife"(223). This sentence used as, and compares Matt stroking her hair and tenderness so sharp as a knife.

2.)Imagery. "They were think and tortoiseshell, Coke-bottle glasses, very different from the thin wire ones Peter usually wore" (360). This sentence is imagery because it makes you imagine what Peter must have looked like those type of glasses.

3.) Similie. "The conversation between Peter and Mr. McCabe was as superficial as a dragonfly on the surface of a lake, darting around topics neither of them particularly cared about"(234). This is a a similie because it compares Peter and Mr. McCabes conversation to a dragon fly...how it goes nowhere.

QUOTE

"I'm great." Josie pasted on a smile. It felt gummy, like wallpaper that hadn't been smoothed right. But she had gotten so good at this - faking it- that it was second nature"(253). This describes Josie perfectly. She says shes fine when her mom talks to her, when police officer asks her, and even her friends. People are only trying to help her, but she doesn't know it!

THEME

Tying into that quote, Josie and alot of other characters in the novel fake how their feeling. A possible theme, is faking your emotions.