Chapter 6

Vocabulary to preview - laconically, naive, bilge, pervasive

Skill - simile and metaphor
A simile is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" or "as." For example:
The sea was in constant motion, its surface heaving rhythmically like the chest of some vast, discomforted sleeper.
What two things are being compared? What is the effect of this comparison?
Look back through the chapters you have read and locate another simile that you feel is used effectively.

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is suggested or implied.
For example:
A ship is a nation of its own.
What two things are being compared?
What does this metaphor reveal about conditions aboard the Seahawk and about the course of future action in the novel?

Predictions and SOS

Follow-up Discussion Questions:
1. What and where is the brig?
2. What do you think Charlotte saw at the end of the chapter?
3. Charlotte said, "I feel like a princess..."  How would you respond to her?
4. How would you feel about being alone in the cargo area?