Possible Side Effects (week 5 post A)

Similes:

"Nonetheless, she could extend her tongue and then roll the edges inward, like a tortilla, creating a point at the end".

"I began chewing the gum. It had a strong, chemical taste. And then a moment later, it slightly burned. Like pepper".

"It's totally chomp, chomp, chomp gonna make my jaw fall off like Lucy Grealy".


Vocab:

Pilgrimage (219)- a journey, esp. a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion

Median (219)-
noting or pertaining to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, esp. one dividing an animal into right and left halves.

Possible Side Effects (week 4 post A)

Vocab:

Pretentious (page 136)- full of pretense or pretension.
Insurmountable (page 140)- incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.

Simile:

"You look like a girl who eats a double helping of carrots".


Metaphor:

"By the time he was a year old, KittyKitty was the size of a Labrador".

Possible Side Effects (week 3 post A)

Vocab:

Mortifyingly (page 90)- to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
Horrifically (page 90)- causing horror.



Similes:

"You're pretty, like me".

"It's like modern art, right there in a magazine".

Possible Side Effects (week 2 post A)

Vocab:
Pathological (page 54)-of or pertaining to pathology.
Hysteria (page 54)-an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.


Similes:

"the card felt like a body I had stashed in the closet..."

"I would happily spit all my broken teeth into a steel pail and walk around the rest of my like smiling like a crazy person and gumming steamed apples".

Possible Side Effects (week 1 post A)

Garnish (page 21)- to provide or supply with something ornamental
Debris (page 22)- the remains of anything broken down or destroyed

Examples of figurative language:

"I thought she was beautiful, like a movie star".

"The pit, that ached and tasted metallic, like blood".

both of those quotes are similes because the author uses like

Different kinds of debates

Curfew- Established by the city. The debates occur in the city council. The point of the debate is to decide between children's safety and children's individual freedoms. This debate should lead to a better decision. This debate would be more structured then unstructured. It helps the decision making process.

Allowance- The debates occur in a home between parents and children. The point of the debate is to decide if the child should have an allowance or if the child's allowance should be raised or not. The debate would be unstructured.

Chores- The debates occur in a home between parents and children. The point of the debate is to decide how many and what chores the child needs to do. The debate would be unstructured.

Grades- The debates occur in a home between parents and children. The point of the debate is to decide if the grades of the child are good or bad. The debate would be unstructured.

Possible Side Effects

-Possible Side Effects by: Augusten Burroughs
-2006
-Nonfiction
-291
-I read Running with Scissors and I really liked it, so I decided to read something by the same author.