Week 6: Part 1

Vocab:
1). postcoital(Pg 244): Occuring or excisting.
2). Epithet(Pg 246): Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality
Figurative Language:
1). "...Sewing up a storm."- This is an example of metaphor because it is describing the sewing that she did to somthing that happens in nature.
2). "...Walter's assurance still goes down like mustard gas."- This is an example of a similie because the sentance has the word likein it.
3). "She bellows and screams, throwing her head and backing away, but he's like a machine."- This is an example of a similie because the author is using like to describe his action to Rosie.
Quote:
"I'll be fine. He won't do anything with rubes around. You've got to go. Please."(Pg 286) This quote shows that after Jacob and August got into a fight that they have to avoid each other even though they work together.
Sentance:
The emerging theme of this book is how Marlena and Jacob are going to leave the circus in the next town so they can get away from August.