Water for Elephants Week 3, Post A

VOCAB:
1. misnomer (91) : an error in naming a person or thing.
2. Gargantuan (125) : gigantic, enormous, and colossal.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
1. “her skin is mottled and cracked like a scorched riverbed” (125) This is a simile describing the elephant’s skin, but using the word “like”.
2. “Huh?” (121) This is an onomatopoeia. It’s a sound, not a real word in the dictionary.
3. “Sure, I said. Maybe if you’re a rutabaga” (110) this is a personification because Jacob is talking about how it might be fun to go participate in the bingo nights. He’s saying that if you’re a rutabaga it’d be fun. But rutabagas can’t go to bingo nights, so it’s giving human characteristics to an inhuman object.

QUOTE: “But I shouldn’t complain, this being circus day and all” (110). This quote is significant because it shows how important the circus is to Jacob even now, because he remembers being in it when he was much younger. He still enjoys the thought of the circus coming because he gets to go see its show.

THEME: The emerging theme of the book right now is still the same as it was in the last section I read.