Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing. 

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie.  The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together.  The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


In the beginning of My Antonia Jim is on a train. the train moved fast when looking from the outside, yet on the inside, it is a slow calming ride that makes you feel like a baby in a rocking cradle.

Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
Me in study hall 3B makes me feel as if nothing is important. It is all boring and tiring making me want to sleep. The creak of the wood floors makes the sound of crying from the people walking up and down and the lady pioneers playing basketball like a hurt animal.