What kind of a person just walks over the hole in the fire station floor without grabbing the pole until he’s fallen halfway to the ground? What does this tell us about Guy Montag as a person?

Hyperbole in the book messenger by lois lowry

Identify an example of an epic simile in book 13, book 21, or book 24 of the odyssey and explain how it is different from a typical simile.

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.