Wolf Hollow figurative language

"He tipped off his hood and shook all over like a dog as he looked around the schoolhouse" (108).

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"...and I'd been fascinated by the switchboard that dominated her front room like a loom strung with thin black snakes" (110).

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"Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" (112)

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"For days I'd been feeling as tense as a banjo string, twanging every time some new problem arose..." (115).

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"My mother shook her head. 'We've been in your shoes...'" (116).

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"My grandfather had shaken his head and mumbled something about a sheep in wolf's clothing" (93).

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"...I felt like a giant" (90).

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• alliteration

• allusion

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"She, [Betty] who had turned the tables with no effort at all" (90).

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"My father stepped off the path and fingered the pale scar on the tree where the wire had taken a bite" (79).

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"...and the next minute he was between us, his back to me, snarling like a farm dog" (52).

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