Week 1-Literary Illuminator

(Pages 1-136)

The following words I have found interesting and have needed to ask a family member, look it up in the dictionary myself, or have found very interesting(or a combination thereof)
Page3 Omission
Page13 Inexorably
Page16 Compartmentalize/compartmentalization
Page24 Gossamer
Page70 Corroborating
Page75 Highfalutin
Page107 Ominous
Page119 Interminable
Page120 Penurious
Page123 Dichotomy

Similes, metaphors, alliteration, et cetera... Figurative language! After reading our first week of Saving Cascadia I made a list of any figurative language I could find. (I didn't find many but this is what I could pull out of the story).
Page36 Intuitive leap on a shaky foundation
Page57 An acid she couldn't neutralize
Page63 She could see the bonfire of flashing red and blue lights
Page89 Something about them made her go slightly insane, like a cat obeying an insatiable to climb to the top of a tree it couldn't hope to climb down.
Page105 He'd been exhausted from week of field work that had him pioneering new frontiers in sleeplessness.

Below is a list of key quotes or interesting quotes I read through.
Page17 Not Missions, she reminded herself. We're not mission oriented. We're operationally oriented.
Page37 "Yes! Jeez, whatever happened to acedemic freedom, not to mention acedemic courage?"
Page91 "Dr. Lam, I may have the actual seismic reflective proof that the rock strata beneath Cascadia Island can focus and even amplify any physical impacts on teh surface which produce compression waves, just as you said. If my interpretation is correct, then, in a phrase, you were right."
Page115 "No man, I'm an angry Paul Revere with a fresh horse and a megaphone, and I'm just getting warmed up."