LiteraryDevices1&2

Literary Devices 1&2 By: Rahil &  Lex  i "They trudged up the **naked hill** **like a parade of sleepwalkers**."pg.9 metaphor and simile. This means that the people aren't reallly sleepwalking it just looks like it. Also when it says naked hill it really means it had nothing on it, not that it had no clothes.

"... the **ancient team** that pulled the wagon,..." pg.12 hyperbole. This means that the horses were old but they weren't 7,000 years old, or something like that.

" These last words thundered forth **like cannon fire and charged the air with an almost tangible force, pinning the men and women to their seats in stunned silence."** pg. 15.simile, alitteration This means that the words were so loud that it sounded like cannon fire, the alitteration is "seats in stunned silence."

" **Shaking like wet hounds** behind their own locked door." pg.18 simile This means that the people were shaking like when a hound shakes the water off his fur.

" **I ask for a school of sharks, and the Lord sends me one small minnow**." pg.19 metaphor This means that Caleb asked for a group of burly men, but only got one small boy.