SSC 8 Literary Devices Out of the Dust

Mad Dog can have any girl

red dust, like prairie fire

the storm swallowed the light

almost free of dust, almost free of debt, almost free of fields of withered wheat

Piano, my silent mother, -- means

sparse as the hair on a dog's belly

"he's stubborn as sod" means

In the dust storm Billy writes, they were "running toward the ghostly door." This means

It threw huge chunks into the air, the ground shook, and smoke choked everything in its path.

cook them custard and cobbler and crisp

My father's song starts and stops like a car short of gas

heaven's shadow crept across the plains

But the flames, crazy in the wind, licked away at the wooden frames

She'd scuff into the kitchen-- scuff is an example of

she's an old mule on the subject of my schooling