My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!", at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Literary Element Pkt 3

Satire- a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
Irony- a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in oder omake the others false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.
Analogy- inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others.
Foreshadowing- to represent indicate, or typify beforehand.

Figurative Language

Figurative- representing by a figure or resemblance
Figure of Speech- a form of expression as a simile or metaphor used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.
Imagery- the product of image makers, the art of making images, figurative language
Trope- the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

They all have to do with a phrase that describes something to make it sound more interesting. It turns little things into bigger things