Group Leader: Kim Group members: Joshua, Ethan, Arnest, and Heng-Le

Like an enormous Pterodactyl or Archaeopteryx Pg

179
Emphasizes the size of the Citadel of Chup

Like a regiment of angels or saints. Pg 179

Talks about how the Pages of Gup looked like angels

with haloes because of their helmets

menacing silence hung over it like a fog pg 184
Emphasizes the absolute silence of the Chupwalas

Archaeopteryx only 0.508m from head to tail!

Archaeopteryx

Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl only 9.144m wingspan!

Personification/Irony
Peace broke out. Pg 191
Irony because the usual phrase is War broke out

Khattam-Shud being crushed by his own statue. Pg 190-191

Hyperbole
and the air was so cold that it would freeze into icicles on

peoples noses. Pg 179

Emphasizes the fact that the air was very cold.

Metaphor
wafting down to them from the Citadel of

Chup Pg 186
every ounce of her own juggling skills pg 182 tore away the shrouds of silence and shadow

pg 188

Metaphor(contd)
hung around the Citadel pg 189

Symbolism
The ambassador as a suicide bomber. Relates to

the failed assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie. Pg 182

Personification
deep heart of the Perpetual Darkness pg 179
full fury of its noonday heat pg 188 received the sunlight like a mortal wound pg 189

 Shining as brightly as the furniture Pg 199

Describing how the Walrus large, hairless, egg-shaped

head was very shiny

 Frozen like statues Pg 210

Describes how shocked Haroun and Rashid were to

find Soraya back home Splashing and chasing each other like little children Pg 207 Emphasizes how boyishly happy Rashid was and how he and Haroun played in the rain

 Puns

Just our little yolk. Pg 200

The Walrus was making a joke and since hes an

Egghead and he said yolk, it's a pun. Explanation not my forte Pg 197 Everyone was singing and forte is a musical direction Ill go face the music alone. Pg 198 Same reason White coated Eggheads Pg 198 Could means that the Eggheads were white or they are wearing white lab coats.

 Pun

..now well have to pay our own bill. Pg 203

Snooty Buttoo in a swan boat and swans have bills Allusion

I.M.D Walrus Eggheads to the Beatle song I am the

Walrus Metaphor right in the palm of his hand. pg 206 his heart sank. 198 burst into laughter. pg 199 bottled happiness poured from the sky. pg 208

 Not worth the candle Pg 197 (meaning it was worthless

to argue with the Walrus) This phrase relates to occupations, games etc. that were thought so lacking in merit that it wasn't worth the expense of a candle to create enough light to partake in them. Candles were as significant a drain on household expenses as is the electricity bill today. There are several phrases in English that express regret at having wasted valuable candlelight.

 The battle between the Guppees and Chupwalas is a

reference to wars that are not fought for chivalrous or righteous reasons, but for political, social and religious reasons. Also, when the two armies were fighting, they were all wearing nosewarmers that made them look like clowns and idiots. This further emphasizes how foolish it is to go to war. Punitive peace proves; so dont even go to war.

 The Floating Gardens on the Dull Lake and Mali the

Floating Gardener from Kahani. (Mali has the ability to assume the appearance of lifeless roots, similar to a Floating Garden. Haroun also mistakes him for a Floating Garden at first [see pg 82]) The Dull Lake in the Valley of K and the Moody Land. (The Dull Lake changed according to the peoples moods, similar to the Moody Land.)

 Butt the Mail Coach Driver and Butt the Hoopoe.

(Their personality, mannerisms, the way they speak, their style and appearance are all increasingly similar.) The Walrus and Snooty Buttoo. (They both have shiny, hairless heads and moustaches that look like dead rats.) The Ocean of Notions (Rashids nickname) and the Oceans of the Streams of Story. (They both have similar names and both hold many stories.)

 The sad city and Kahani. (The both bear the same

name and both mean story. They are also both being polluted by something.) Khattam-Shud and Snooty Buttoo. (Both are dictators.) The dark ship and the sadness factories. (Both produce sadness and in the dark ships case, poison.) Batcheat and Soraya. (Both have their voices constantly raised in song but Sorayas singing is top notch while Batcheats singing is horrible.)

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 Angelfish, sharks and the Plentimaw Fishes. (In terms

of size, the Plentimaw Fishes are comparable to sharks while their shape is similar to those of angelfish.) Mr. Sengupta and Khattam-Shud. (They look almost the same and both are taking away something important. For instance, Mr. Sengupta took away Soraya while Khattam-Shud is destroying the Ocean.) The citizens of K and most of the Chupwalas. (A dictator oppresses both.) The Union of Zipped Lips and the phrase Zip the Lips (see pg 49). (The phrase was foreshadowing to the Union of Zipped Lips, a group of evil Chupwalas who dont speak.)

 The war between Chup and Gup looked like a battle of

clowns This is to signify that a war for freedom of speech is impropriate The Gups communicated with each other while the Chups didnt In the end the Gups won and the Chups didnt