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Night is what happens when your side of the planet is pointed at outer space without the sun. Daniel X Watch The Skies is a good book because it is an easy book to read it keeps your attention though out the whole book. It has literary devices in it. This book is also interesting because it has an epilogue and a prologue. This book is the only book that I have read that has had those in it before. The authors' James Patterson and Ned Rust said "Daniel x takes on the wildest threat the world has ever seen" and he is right. The book is filled with action and adventure for Daniel. Daniel X is an alien hunter. There is an alien that comes to earth. The alien is a criminal the number five most wanted alien to be exact. This alien threatens human life. So Daniel has to destroy it. This alien has powers over electricity. He takes it down to the place where it is hiding. They fight a vicious battle. Then Daniel comes out victorious. Sometimes things do not always go the way we want them to go. Friends …show more content…
Here is one of them" The secret was to jump into the air and then crush them from above-splat!- just like a foot squashing a bug.". How this worked as a simile is that it used "like" in it. What about this worked was it was comparing to things the Henchbeast to the squashing of a bug under a shoe. Imagery is an another type of literary device " ... transformed into a steaming pool of swampy liquid.". How this worked in imagery was it described the scene in great detail. What about this worked was it helped you really picture what it looked like after the aliens were done with someone. Figurative Language the Final literary device" Watch the skies for more episodes and a sizzling premiere that'll leave you dying for more.". How it worked was it talked about one thing then it meant another. What about it worked was it talked about them dying because of the show, but it meant that the show was hilarious and that they would want to watch

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