1) Allusions- Bingo: reffering to the childrens' song, Food Stamps Campaign: the Great Depression, Goldilocks: the childrens' story, the wolf man: children's story.
2) Metaphors- And said he had engines in his feet and motors in his hands and coun't no train throw him off and couldn't nobody turn him round. But the next day loadin up the truck, with rocks all in his jaw, madder than Granny in the first place. "Go tell that man we ain't a bunch of trees."
3) Similes- "Looks like a plastic spider web," she said. But really it looked like the crystal paperweight Granny kept in the parlor. Cathy says it's because he's so tall and quiet like a king. Then Granddaddy's other hand flies up like a sudden and gentle bird, slaps down fast on top of the camera and lifts off half like it was a calabash cut for sharing.
4) Descriptions of Granddaddy Cain- his great white head, not quite round, tall and quiet, large hands, wears boots and oilskins.
5) Descriptions of Granny Cain- smiling 'that smile', talks with her eyebrows, easily angered, likes her own space.
6) Symbols- The Chicken Hawk's bond is like Granny's and Granddaddy's relationship: one is coming to the rescue of the other.
7) Examples of dialect- "You woulda done whatcha always do- go cry to Mama, you big baby." "Get them persons out of my flowerbed, Mister Cain." "Let's get on away from here before I kill me somebody."
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