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Quad March 19, 2011 at 3:47 am

1. "He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside"
SIMILE_comparing lashing a whale with lashing a fish.

2 "The old man looked at him with his sun – burned,confident loving eyes"
PERSONIFICATION-His eyes are personified as confident

3. "During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing"

4. "Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty"
JUXTAPOSITION OF OPPOSITES: alive with his death

5. "Just then he saw a man – of – war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him"

6. "The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it"
SIMILE:clouds rose like mountains rise
METAPHOR-coast is being compared with a long, green line
7. "The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again"

8."You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish"
PARALLELISM: you/fisherman:fishfish

9. "The iridescent bubbles were beautiful"

10. "He could not even see a bird"

11."One bait was down forty fathoms"

12. "He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night"

13."Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought"
personification of moon as though it were alive

14"But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.'

15. "The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait"

Quad April 20, 2011 at 2:16 pm

1. "He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside"
SIMILE_comparing lashing a whale with lashing a fish.

2 "The old man looked at him with his sun – burned,confident loving eyes"
PERSONIFICATION-His eyes are personified as confident

3. "During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing"

4. "Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty"
JUXTAPOSITION OF OPPOSITES: alive with his death

5. "Just then he saw a man – of – war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him"

6. "The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it"
SIMILE:clouds rose like mountains rise
METAPHOR-coast is being compared with a long, green line
7. "The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again"

8."You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish"
PARALLELISM: you/fisherman:fishfish

9. "The iridescent bubbles were beautiful"

10. "He could not even see a bird"

11."One bait was down forty fathoms"

12. "He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night"

13."Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought"
personification of moon as though it were alive

14"But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.'

15. "The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait"

Quad June 1, 2011 at 1:55 am

1. "He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside"
SIMILE_comparing lashing a whale with lashing a fish.

2 "The old man looked at him with his sun – burned,confident loving eyes"
PERSONIFICATION-His eyes are personified as confident

3. "During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing"

4. "Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty"
JUXTAPOSITION OF OPPOSITES: alive with his death

5. "Just then he saw a man – of – war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him"

6. "The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it"
SIMILE:clouds rose like mountains rise
METAPHOR-coast is being compared with a long, green line
7. "The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again"

8."You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish"
PARALLELISM: you/fisherman:fishfish

9. "The iridescent bubbles were beautiful"

10. "He could not even see a bird"

11."One bait was down forty fathoms"

12. "He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night"

13."Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought"
personification of moon as though it were alive

14"But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.'

15. "The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait"