I count the moles on Miss Erika’s back, round and raised like licorice drops,
This imagery uses a simile to describe how Miss Erika's moles look like.
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- Aug 2020
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Though I am not the best in my class at math, I know that Edgars should be Fritz and that I should be a sugar plum fairy in a pink tutu with red rouge-smears on my cheeks.
This piece of imagery reveals an image of a sugar plum fairy in the reader's head.
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This is 1986 in Seattle after all, and I feel the capsize in my chest like a rowboat caught in a storm, and when they raise the curtain, I will be the girl in the back dressed like a boy in a borrowed karate suit, taller than everyone but not quite so nimble or quick.
The imagery is created through the use of a simile. It is comparing how nervous she is to a rowboat that is in a storm. This allows the reader to experience the moment through her eyes.
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