Outside Reading - Week 3, Post A

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

VOCAB
-Interpol (181)- an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
-lustrous (190)- having luster; shining; luminous
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "Outside, the wind howled in the trees" (257). This is personification, giving the nonhuman wind the ability to howl.
2. "The manservant's words crackled through the intercom on the wall" (258). This is personification giving the nonhuman words the ability to crackle.
3. "...clicking..." (261). This is onomatopoeia. The word clicking sounds like the actual sound it makes.
QUOTE
"You do not find the Grail, the Grail finds you" (295). This is key because Sophie happened upon her grandfather's body and the key, Langdon got called into it, and Teabing was approached by Langdon and Sophie, none of them were in search of the grail and found each other, it worked the other way around.
THEME
Good things come to all who wait.