The rattle snake trying to find the birds eggs
"We sat at one of the spick-and span tables with plastic flowers..." (201)
"Mattie was counting out loud between the lightning and thunderclaps: six, seven, boom!...four, five, six, boom!" (162)
"I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve" (160)
"A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of god" (161)
"He has the devil in him tonight" (164)
"... in the center of each flower there was a complicated construction of silvery threads like a pair of cupped hands catching moonlight" (186)
The panicked sparrow trapped in the house
"...then our wet shirts were clinging to our shoulders" (162)
Simile
Symbol
Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Allusion
Personification
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
