Gathering Blue By Louis LowryStacy O. Destiny H. Savannah T.

Personification “It had come about almost magically, as if the

thread had spoken to her, or sung.”

“A cloud shadowed the moon and the room darkened.”

“Alone with Thomas, Kira tried to explain the warning that had come to her from the cloth.”

Irony

“Fear was always apart of life for the people, because of fear they made shelter and found food.”

This is an ironic term because fear isn’t usually

Something that would benefit you.

Hyperbole

"kira watched her mother's spirit drift away, she could also see the "cindered fragments" of her child hood whirl into the sky."

This quote is a hyperbole because kira's child hood isn't

literally whirling into the skythe author exaggerated this statement

to give it more depth.