Figurative Language

The barred door clanked. pg 123

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The house was so proud of itself... pg. 6

• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

....swept and scoured into limp submission. pg. 50

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The Foster women had made a fortress out of duty. pg. 50

• alliteration
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The earth...was worn bald under the gate...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust.  pg. 111

• metaphor
• alliteration
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

For the hundredth time she reviewed it all... pg. 128

• personification
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea. pg.47

• idiom
• personification
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage... pg. 52

• personification
• idiom
• metaphor
• simile

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

...soon after, a crack of thunder.  pg 124

• personification
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"They take it in through their skins, like a sponge." pg. 112

• simile
• personification
• allusion
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4