B.The sky] isa solid blue sheet meeting brown prairie in one straight lineas if someone had pasted two pieces of colored paper together.
с. [The town of Arickeree, with elm trees lining each of its five paved streets,] looks like an oasis as you approach it from the state highway....
d. When I walk I feel as if I am climbing over ocean waves. I am surrounded by waves, and though the waves don't move, I still feel threatened.
e. There was the windmill, just above the horizon, pushing up higher and higher over the next swell with each step as if it were growing out of the prairie.
2. The narrator's stark description of the landscape contrasts with the grandfather's colorful telling of his tall tale. In the following sentences, find an example of each of three figures of speech: simile, allusion (an indirect reference to a person or event that the reader is expected to recognize), and personification (talking about something that isn't alive as though it could think and feel). Then discuss what each figure of speech means.
a. There was never a time when it had rained for twelve days on the prairie. It was as if the ground didn't know what to do with all that water, so for a while the water just stayed there....
b. Before Grandfather could do anything, though, Scooter was off and running on top of the water just like Jesus Christ.
с. Grandfather's brain was swiveling around faster than a weather cock in a tornado....
UNIT 3
John Updike
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