The Pearl

List the words or expressions the author uses to describe the pearl. "The first time Kino saw it."

(The first time Kino saw it.) ...and there it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence. It was as large as a sea-gull's egg. It was the greatest pearl in the world....In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms.

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"It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence."

"......large as a sea-gull's egg."

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The Pearl

".......perfect as the moon."