5 Matching Annotations
  1. Aug 2020
    1. I hop on the bricks and play with my dolls—stuffed unicorns and bears and rabbits, all with the same tea-stained mouths.

      I can imagine a little girl's room and her toys all a little beat up from playing tea party so many times.

    2. There’s Metallica and W.A.S.P. and Queen and Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin; I put on the Led Zeppelin and play “Stairway to Heaven” over and over.

      I know exactly what music the narrator describes. I can hear the songs while I read.

    3. I picture forests echoing with laughter and shadows taller than souls.

      We are able to see exactly what the narrator describes in their head.

    4. A policeman picks up one of the smooth vinyl shards and rubs his thumb across the grooves

      This is imagery because it describes what the record looks like. I can imagine exactly what he is describing.

    5. He listens on headphones but the volume’s so loud I hear everything: the tinsel rain of cymbals and urgency of words. The music is hard and heavy with lyrics like poetry; he calls it heavy metal.

      This is imagery because it describes exactly what the narrator hears. It's almost like I can hear it too.