3.4 Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language

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Reread an excerpt from chapter 8 of The Season of Styx Malone.

Start reading at the third paragraph on page 44, starting at “Well, if it isn’t Caleb and Bobby Gene Franklin.”

Stop reading after the fourth paragraph on page 45, where it says, “his sharp black elbows pointed down toward us like punctuation marks.”

Jot down instances of descriptive and figurative language from the excerpt in the table below.

“He pushed off the trunk and ambled toward us.”
“His arms hung lanky at his sides. I shook out my shoulders to relax them.”
“He gripped a low horizontal branch, then swung himself around it like a hinge.”
“His sharp black elbows pointed down toward us like punctuation marks.”
“Styx leaned over the branch. His scrawny stomach bowed right over it.

Descriptive language: words or phrases that use imagery and visual details to describe something
Figurative language: the use of words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition