In the book Canyons, the Author uses Figurative Language to show the readers meanings for phrases in different ways. On page 49 in the book Canyons Brennan uses a simile and says “ Dropping like a black sheet down over them.”This simile makes me think that something bad is going to happen to someone. Also that someone might die. It is comparing Brennans story to Coyote Runs. Another way the author uses a way of figurative language is when the was describing the canyons, “ The canyon walls rose up straight up into the late afternoon sky; towering red and yellow with dark streaks. One bluff feeding to another up into the mountains.”This is helping us infer what the canyons looked like back then. This is also helping us put a picture in our
