Before I Fall: Figures of Speech
Day 1:
“Beep beep”- Onomatopoeia
“The air is still freezing cold. The sky is a perfect, pale blue. The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and its too lazy to clean itself up. It’s supposed to storm later, but you’d never know”- Simile, foreshadowing
“It’s Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”- Cliques
“Are you excited? The big day. Opening night.”- Ironic
“What’s the point of looking cute if you can’t show it off?”- Rhetorical question
Day 2:
“I wonder if you fall forever and ever and never touch down, is it really still falling?” - Sam referring to her dream. Page 59
“For a second when I look around the room everything seems fuzzy and slightly distorted, like I’m not really looking at my room but only at a transparency of my room that’s been laid down incorrectly so the corners don’t match up with the real thing. Then the light shifts and everything looks normals again.” - Sam talking about her room after shes just gotten up. Page 59
“It’s Saturday, I say. I have no idea how I got home last night”. - Sam talking about waking up the ‘next’ day. Page 60
“....I see the date blinking up at me: Friday, February 12. Yesterday” - Personification. Page 60
“Don’t make me l8 on Cupid Day, beeyatch!!!!!” - Explores vernacular. Page 60
“You look like shit. Nightmares?” “Something like that” - Lindsay talking to Sam. Page 61
“Sleek black trees crowding on either side of us like skeletons. - Simile (Sam talking about death). Page 62
“I won’t let my best friend die a virgin”. Lindsay to Sam, Irony. Page 62
“I thought I died yesterday. I thought I died tonight”. - Quote Sam, Confusion. Page 63
“The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up”. Page 63
“Everything looks so normal. Page 64
“I feel like i’m having deja vu,” Elody says. “Flashback to freshman year, you know?” - Irony. Page
“Beep beep”- Onomatopoeia
“The air is still freezing cold. The sky is a perfect, pale blue. The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and its too lazy to clean itself up. It’s supposed to storm later, but you’d never know”- Simile, foreshadowing
“It’s Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”- Cliques
“Are you excited? The big day. Opening night.”- Ironic
“What’s the point of looking cute if you can’t show it off?”- Rhetorical question
Day 2:
“I wonder if you fall forever and ever and never touch down, is it really still falling?” - Sam referring to her dream. Page 59
“For a second when I look around the room everything seems fuzzy and slightly distorted, like I’m not really looking at my room but only at a transparency of my room that’s been laid down incorrectly so the corners don’t match up with the real thing. Then the light shifts and everything looks normals again.” - Sam talking about her room after shes just gotten up. Page 59
“It’s Saturday, I say. I have no idea how I got home last night”. - Sam talking about waking up the ‘next’ day. Page 60
“....I see the date blinking up at me: Friday, February 12. Yesterday” - Personification. Page 60
“Don’t make me l8 on Cupid Day, beeyatch!!!!!” - Explores vernacular. Page 60
“You look like shit. Nightmares?” “Something like that” - Lindsay talking to Sam. Page 61
“Sleek black trees crowding on either side of us like skeletons. - Simile (Sam talking about death). Page 62
“I won’t let my best friend die a virgin”. Lindsay to Sam, Irony. Page 62
“I thought I died yesterday. I thought I died tonight”. - Quote Sam, Confusion. Page 63
“The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up”. Page 63
“Everything looks so normal. Page 64
“I feel like i’m having deja vu,” Elody says. “Flashback to freshman year, you know?” - Irony. Page