Identify a passage in Chapter 8 that relies on figurative language for part of its meaning or effect. First summarize the passage. Then analyze its style, using what you learned in this lesson, and describe the effect the passage might have on readers. How did the passage make you feel? What information were you able to gather about the characters featured in the passage? in role of thunder hear my cry

Chapter 8 had so much figurative language throughout it. I think it definitely added so much depth to the chapter as a whole. But after re-reading the chapter, I found one paragraph with the most figurative language in it. The paragraph is as follows, “At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it; but eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain and it churned into a fine red mud that oozed between our toes and slopped against our ankles as we marched miserably to and from school…”

There is clearly a lot to unpack in this paragraph, so I’m going to go through the sentences. In the first sentence, “At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it…” There are two types of figurative language used in this sentence. First, we have personification. You can clearly see personification being used when the rain was described as “…rejoicing in its own resiliency…” and “…laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it…” The next type of figurative language we see being used in the first sentence is onomatopoeia. We see onomatopoeia being used a couple of times throughout the paragraph as a whole, but once in the first sentence. Onomatopoeia is used when the rain is described as “thudding.”

Now onto the next sentence, “…but eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain and it churned into a fine red mud that oozed between our toes and slopped against our ankles as we marched miserably to and from school…” Again, there is a lot to unpack with this sentence, so I’m just going to point out the figurative language in order. First, we see that onomatopoeia is used when the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain. Next, we see onomatopoeia again when the author says that the rain churned into a fine mud. The next figurative language we see is imagery. Imagery is used here, “…rain and it churned into a fine red mud that oozed between our toes and slopped against our ankles…” This was extremely descriptive and I could really envision what the author was describing.