Week Four- Post A

Airborn
Vocabulary
1)Oaf- A clumsy, stupid person.
2)Palatial- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
Figurative Language
1)"I woke feeling as if I hadn't slept at all, head thrumming like a symphony" (82). This is an example of a simile because it uses like to compare his pain in his head to a symphony.
2)"Soon the volcano ws spitting out orange and red sparks, and then a glutinous tongue of black and orange lava oozed over the crater's rim and started a leisurely slide down the slope, incinerating everything in its path" (83). This has two examples of personification. The first is saying the volcano was spitting because only people/animals, not objects can spit. The second example was describing the lava as a tongue because volcanos don't have tongues.
Quote
"I glanced over, and Kate was beside me. She was looking out the window, but I knew she wasn't talking about the volcano. There was no sign of miss Simpkins, and no one else around;" (83). I like this quote because it shows the only way Kate and Matt can talk to eachother, in private.
Theme
I think the theme so far is don't let the ordinary blind the truth.