Similies:
Looks like a plastic spiderweb
looked like the crystal paper wheight
like a king
like it was a just a sack flown into by mistake
Like I was a gift on a tray
Like a sudden and gentle bird
Like it was a calabash cut for sharing

metaphore:
 Go tell that man we ain't a bunch of trees
The tall man with a huge camera lassoed to his shoulder was buzzin our way
smilin up a storm
rocks all in his jaw
engines in his feet and motors in his hands

Allusions:
Bingo like the child's song.
The woman breaking in to the house is goldilocks
The wolf man: Red Riding Hood
Food stamp campaign: the great depression

Description of gran daddy Cain:
He has White hair. Gran daddy stands tall like a king. He is quiet and will protect his family from whatever. he Wears oilskin and boots.

Description of Granny Cain: She gets annoyed easily. They have lives in four different places because she gets mad at someone there. She likes her own space and is polite and sophisticated.

Symbols:
The title Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird: It means that you can never recreate the families hardships no matter how hard you try you won't get the right feeling.

Dialect: "me and cathy" "stompin" "swingin" "makin movie pictures" "aunty" "nuthin""I squinch my eyes open..."