Week Seven- Post A

Airborn
Vocabulary
1) Trifled- To deal lightly or without due seriousness or respect.
2) Swaths- The width of a scythe stroke or a mowing-machine blade.
Figurative Language
1)"Below, all around us, the sea was dark as mercury, and closer than I liked" (110). This is an example of a simile because it uses as to compare the darkness of the sea to mercury.
2)"The whole ship was exhaling, like the last long sigh of a dying man" (109). This quote has two examples of figuative language. The first being an example of personification. It says the ship was exhaling. Ships can't breathe, so therefore it's personification. The other example is a simile because it uses like to compare the ship exhaling to the last breathe of a dying man.
Quote
"The Aurora. The propellers caught in our skin and kept cutting, through the taut fabric, through the gas cells inside. Te propellers slashed through our port side, from stern to amidships. I felt the horrible chainsaw vibration rattle the entire ship" (108). I like this quote because it shows the crews' and passengers' doom is right ahead of them.
Theme
Expect the unexpected.