Literary+Devices

 =LITERARY DEVICE  S=

An **allusion** is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two//. Allusion means 'reference'. It relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with all of the meaning hidden behind the words. (http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/allusion/page) A **metaphor** is a implied comparison between two things without using "as" or "like". A **simile** is a very direct comparsion that includes either the word " like' or "as" A **Motif** is a detail in the story that repeats itself throughout the work and usually symbolizes an idea.It may be a character trait, color, or even an object that has some sort of significance. These are some of the devices that we discussed in class that requred an explantion or reminder. Of course, they are other lierary devices such as foreshadowing and symbolism that you could also discuss

//Metaphors: “T-Ray is as mean as a barn yard dog.“ He would make his daughter, Lily, kneel on grits as punishment, and force her to work in the peach stands during the day.// //Symbol:.A significant symbol in chapter one is the bees. The bees begin to come to Lily in the year of 1994 when she was four years old. Lily’s mother died that year, from being shot. Lily believes that it was her fault that her mother was killed because she had picked up the gun when it went off (or that is the story she believes). The bees are believed to be guardian angels for Lily, and are only seen at night. Lily tries showing her father the bees, but the bees’ leave once Lily brings her father to her room to see them. Lily catches a bee in a jar, but later tries to release it. The bee did not leave when Lily opened the jar. I believe the bees may come back into the story when Lily and Rosaleen are in trouble, to protect them just as they had done for Lily at night when they came to visit her.// //Allusion: Rosaleen is Lily’s rock. She is always there for Lily to depend upon. She says that she will not be there for Lily when she would get hurt, even though she really would be there for Lily.// //(E.M) Metaphors: "T-Ray and Lily's relationship vibrates with the tensity of a tight drum" T-Ray, Lily's father, and Lily have so much hatred for each other that it is like you could feel the hatred just like you could feel the vibrations of a tight drum. Symbols: The Black Mary has some sort of significance in the story because Lily has a picture of the Black Mary and it used to belong to her mother. Tiburon, North Carolina is written on the back of the picture, and Lily believes if she goes there she can find more about her mother. In chapter 2, Lily runs away from home and goes to Tiburon, North Carolina to find information about her mother. Before hitching a ride in a cantaloupe truck, smuggles Rosaleen, her nanny, out of the hospital where she has just recently gotten stitches for being beaten. (L.B.)
 * __Chapter 1: Allusions, Metaphors, or Symbols__**//
 * __2: Allusions, Metaphors, or Symbols__**

Metaphors- " Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open." p. 60 This metaphor refers to the opportunity that Lily has to change something for the better in her life. Her time has come to do something that she wants to do. Symbols- The honey jars are a symbol in chapter 3. They represent the hope that Lily has that she might learn about her mother. That she might come closer to who her mother was. Motif- A motif for the book is segregation. Segregation is very visible in the book. An example of segregation in chapter 3 was when Lily and Rosaleen went to the store in town. Rosaleen had to stay outside while Lily went in to buy the food. Another is when Lily mentioned the honey jars to the store clerk and h responded that many peole did not buy the honey since the Mary in the picture was black. (MA)
 * __Chapter 3 Allusions, Metaphors, and Symbols 11-5-08__**

__**Chapter 4: Allusions, Metaphors, or Symbols 11-5-08**__ There were a number of metaphors in chapter four. One of them can be located on page 71. "Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying the air, the trees so transparent I felt I could see through to something pure inside them." Lily and Rosaleen have just arrived at the Boatwright sisters house and Lily is exploring the house and she is examining the statue of the Black Mary. Lily was comparing how she felt that moment to the time when she was walking "back from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath." (page 71) She explained how she feels when she saw the statue and that her chest had ached when she was at the peach stand and it ached now too.// //**L.L

__Chapter 5:Allusions, Metaphors or Symbols 11-9-08__** Symbols: A symbol in the book is May's wailing wall. This represents all the sadness that May experiences. It is a way for her to lift some of the sorrow that she has in her life. Motif: A motif in the book is honey. Honey isz a reoccuring thing in the book. Honey seems to be a constant, it will always be there. For the Boatwright sisters it can solve almost any problem. The Black Madonna Honey led Lily to the Boatwright sisters and could help her learn more about her mother's past. CD

Motif- A motif in the book is "Oh! Susanna." It comes up constantly for May. She sings whenever something happens that is bad, but only for small things. It solves those small problems for May. Also the wailing wall, is another motif because it comes up in this chapter again, for May. She goes to it when there are larger problems. In chapter 6, May goes to the wailing wall because June will not marry Neil. Symbols- A symbol in this book and this chapter espeically, is the Black Madonna. It is a symbol that the Daughters of Mary, talk about and tell the story of her. They all use it as a staute which they come to and touch the heart. This is a symbol that there is love for the Black Madonna. MP
 * __Chapter 6- Allusions, Metaphors, or Symbols 11/10/08__**

Metaphors- "Keep the curtain drawn" p. 115 This refers to Lily and Rosaleen being in hiding and that Mary could not protect them forever. Another metaphor is "Ran like the wind" p. 117 This refers to Zach being a very fast runner. Symbols- A symbol for the book, and this chapter are the bees. The bees buzz around Zach and Lily at the bee yards. They also appear throughout the chapter as the Boatright sisters make honey. Bees and honey are their life. (MA)
 * __Chapter 7 Allusions, Metaphors, and Symbols 11-11-08__**

__Symbol:__// In this chapter, I think one of the symbols is marraige and how Lily always thinks about her parents even though then never got along. In chapter eight, August bought up how she had decided a long time ago she did not want to get married. Lily then thought about how her parents marraige failed. Lily realized August did have a reasonable explanation about why she did not ever want to get married. This comes up a number of times in Secret Life of Bees __Motif:__ A motif in this chapter is how Lily thinks about how August's, June's, and Mays' names are all months. This comes up a number of times in the book. Lily decides if she was named after a month, it would be October because she loves the colors and her initials would be O.O for October Owens __Metaphors:__ One metaphor in chapter eight is on page 138. "Her eyes were mysterious and kind and her skin dark brown with a glow, darker than toast, and looking a little like it had been buttered." This metaphor is when Lily is looking at the Black Madonna picture. L.L
 * __Chapter 8 Metaphors, Allusions, and Symbols:__**

11/12/08 Motif- A motif in this book are the bees. The bees are mentioned constantly in the book. Lily and Rosaleen are living at the Boatwright sisters house which is where the Black Madonna Honey is produced. Since Lily has started living there her whole life has been about bees. Each morning she wakes up and tends to the bees and continues to do this until the early evening. In Chapter 9 Lily is woken up early in the morning by August to tend to the bees because it was 103 degrees outside and the bees wouldn't have any food.. Allusion- Segregation is an allusion in this book. Not everybody knows what segregation is so when segregation takes place in the book not everybody would know what to refer to it as. Segregation takes place in Chapter 9 when Zach and his friends are bothered by a white man and when one of Zach's friends throws a glass bottle at the man and break his nose. Then Zach and all of his friends are arrested. NM __**Chapter 10 Metaphors and symbols 11-16-08**__ __**Metaphor-**__ One metaphor would be "It hung over the river sliding in and out of clouds." (Page 190) This metaphor means that the author wants the reader to visualize the 5 of them walking in the forest by the river at night scared and worried about May who is alone in the dark; the only thing to guide is the moon. The moon can represent light and guidance for them. C.H.
 * __Chapter 9 Metaphors, Allusions, and Symbols__**
 * __Symbol__**- One symbol for this chapter is the Daughters o Mary. The symbol of the Daughters of Mary means the Mother Mary is good and loves all just as May was good and cared for even the roaches. The Daughters of Mary symbolizes that May was a good person and was in anguish about Zach being in jail.

__Symbol__- One symbol for this chapter is the graham crackers and marshmallows. Lily tells August about May and the trick to get rid of roaches. Lily thinks of this as a symbol for her mother because her father told her before that Deborah did the same thing. __Metaphor__- One metaphor would be "T. Ray was gonna half kill me, and I was tired of being half killed." This is a metaphor for when Lily was explaining to August why she and Rosaleen had ran away. She was telling her how Rosaleen had gotten in trouble and how T. Ray was going to half kill Lily, or punish Lily if she didn't run away. __Motif__- One small motif in this book and especially in this chapter is Deborah. She is mentioned a lot especially in Lily's thoughts and ideas. In this chapter she is mentioned a lot because we find out the August knew Deborah since she was a child. I think another motif might also be the pink house. The house is mentioned so much in the book and in this chapter we also find out that this was Deborah's house while she was growing up. M.O.
 * Chapter 12-11/16/08**

__Allusion:__ In this chapter when Rosaleen registers to vote, it is alluded that the reader knows about the cadidates, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Goldwater. __Motif__: One motif in this chapter is the heart. This is a motif because in one scene, Lily haves many changes of heart about her mother. One second she is admiring Deborah's hair in her hairbrush, and the next she despises her for leaving. In another scene, August and Lily discuss how Our Lady is inside of everyone, and how Lily needs to find Our Lady, and her mother inside of her heart. __Metaphor__: The metaphor I found in this chapter was how LIly was compared to the queenless beehive. Lily was missing her mother, and the hive was missing its queen. Without her mother, Lily had grown up with a hole in her heart, and very few people who loved her. Without someone to love and listen to her, Lily would have fallen apart, just like the beehive would without a new queen. mms
 * Chapter 14 11/19/08**