The panicked sparrow trapped in the house
"We sat at one of the spick-and span tables with plastic flowers..." (201)
"Mattie was counting out loud between the lightning and thunderclaps: six, seven, boom!...four, five, six, boom!" (162)
"... in the center of each flower there was a complicated construction of silvery threads like a pair of cupped hands catching moonlight" (186)
"I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve" (160)
"He has the devil in him tonight" (164)
"A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of god" (161)
The rattle snake trying to find the birds eggs
"...then our wet shirts were clinging to our shoulders" (162)
Personification
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Symbol
Metaphor
Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
