Can somebody me with these freak the mighty questions?
3. in the following passage, how do the sound devices—alliteration, internal rhyme,
consonance, and assonance and figurative language produce imagery for readers?
"freak is whistling and the cop car spotlight comes beaming around the pond until it settles on us. i'm
blinking because the light is so bright, and freak is making a fuss and waving his arms and we hear the metal
megaphone sound of a cop voice ordering us not to move. like we could if we wanted! blade and his
punks are running away like snakes on sneakers, freak says" (39).
4.
in the following passage, what might the cup of coffee in the china cup symbolize for
max and grim, and what is ironic about this scene?
“grim is handing me a cup of coffee in a china cup, from the set they never use and he's so grim-
like and serious i go, 'could i have sugar in the coffee? ' grim clasps his hands together and says, 'of
course you can, son' next thing he's clearing his throat and coughing into his fists and gram is looking at
the two of us and she gets this gram-like glow, like this is how it's supposed to be" (42).
5.
in the following passage, what mood does the figurative language produce in this
passage, and what does this mood foreshadow?
“when we get to the testaments, though, freak shuts right up. it's this big, falling-apart place with a
bunch of apartments, and it looks sad and smells like fish and sour milk. there're a lot of bikes and toys lying
around, mostly bashed up and broken, and the little kids who live there look almost as busted up as the toys.
when they see us coming, they make these screaming noises and run away, but you can tell they're not really
scared, they just want to pretend we're a monster or something, eek, eek" (64).