Definitely a fantasy! Elves, trolls, wizards, witches, magic... I am enjoying this book, but for some reason it is a slower read for me. Could be all the traveling I am doing right now. This book has been in Illinois and Iowa...hotels, soccer fields, and several restaurants!
Written in third person, the fun thing about fantasy is that sometimes the personification is literal. When the trees talk to Jinx, they are talking to Jinx. I don't think that is personification in the figurative language sense, but an example of fantasy. So finding personification in fantasy is a little trickier, but not much. You just have to have an awareness to whether the object is a character or a detail in the story.
I like that the author weaved fairytales into this story, without telling their stories. You just knew because of the clues.
I like that the author weaved fairytales into this story, without telling their stories. You just knew because of the clues.
ALLITERATION and PERSONIFICATION: "This was the sort of situation that made people in the clearing cast a calculating eye upon their surplus children." (eye doing math?..Mrs. Hummel definitely has calculating eyes! LOL)
"...gave him a little shove to the left or the right around a great glowering tree..." (at this point in the book, I did not know the trees were characters so it was personification.)
"...under Urwald's menacing shadows."
METAPHOR and SIMILES: '"Ah! Well, don't jus sit there like a lump on the ground--lead on, boy!"'
"Rounding a great gnarled knot of a tree trunk, Jinx ran smack into a creature and yelped." (also alliteration this is a good example of alliteration is not the letter, but the sound... 'gnarled knot')
"But magic poured off the man, ripples of magic as strong as the pulses of life that seeped from the trees all around them."
"...and the wizard's nose twitched at the bad smell of a lie." (metaphor and personification)
By the way, these were all found within the first chapter of the book!!
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