The second example describes the poetic creativity of Emmeline Grangerford, “He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn’t find anything to rhyme it with she would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dramatic Reading) Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. The first example is personification, which describes how Pap looks when he arrives, “There waran’t no color in his face, where his face showed it was white not like another man’s white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body’s flesh crawl – a tree toad white, a fish belly white.” In this activity, students can display their understanding of figurative language by identifying the examples and creating a literal and/or figurative portrayal of the language. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses several examples of figurative language including personification and idioms.
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