Tuck Everlasting: LanguageFeatures

Hyperbole:
1. "It was the hottest day yet, so heavy that the slightest exertion brought on a flood of perspiration."
Simile:
1. "If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all come running like pigs to slops."
Personification:
1. "Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."
Figurative language:
1. "And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin.”
Foreshadowing
1. "I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."
Flashback
1. "I couldn't forget the tune or the family who didn't grow older. They haunted my dreams. So a few months ago I left home and started out to look for them."
Irony
1. "I am one hundred and four."

Resource summary

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