"The Skin I'm In" Ch 13 Figurative Language

Miss Saunders is a motion machine this morning.

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• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Miss Saunders is a motion machine this morning.

The author's intended meaning behind the comparison is ...

• Miss Saunders movements were stiff - like a machine.

• Miss Saunders was very efficient - like a machine.

• Miss Saunders seemed to be moving all around the classroom - doing many things.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

She sets down her briefcase, throws her black bag into the closet up front, slaps her hands together like giant paddles, and tells everybody to get quiet.

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• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

She sets down her briefcase, throws her black bag into the closet up front, slaps her hands together like giant paddles, and tells everybody to get quiet.

The meaning behind the author's comparison is ...

• Miss Saunders's hands were loud when she slapped them together.

• Miss Saunders treated her black bag roughly.

• Miss Saunders's hands moved through the air like paddles.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When Miss Saunders sees what somebody’s drawn, she stops in her tracks, like she’s been hit in the stomach.

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• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When Miss Saunders sees what somebody’s drawn, she stops in her tracks, like she’s been hit in the stomach.

What is the figurative language's intended meaning?

• Something hit Miss Saunders in the stomach when she was walking to the chalkboard.

• The drawing Miss Saunders sees shows somebody hitting her in the stomach.

• The drawing was so surprising and shocking, Miss Saunders wasn't sure how to react.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Carrie Miller says. ″If you ever got a girl to like you— and we all know that ain’t never gonna happen— you’d sell your skin to keep her.″

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• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Carrie Miller says. ″If you ever got a girl to like you— and we all know that ain’t never gonna happen— you’d sell your skin to keep her.″

What is the figurative language's intended meaning?

• John-John's skin is very valuable.

• John-John is so poor he would have to sell his skin in order to be able to afford taking a girl out.

• If a girl liked John-John he would do everything in his power to keep her.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The classroom gets quiet again. Then the bell rings, busting up the silence like a fist through glass.

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• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The classroom gets quiet again. Then the bell rings, busting up the silence like a fist through glass.

The intended meaning behind the comparison is ...

• The bell was so loud in broke the glass in the classroom.

• The bell disrupted the silence and surprised everyone because the classroom had been quiet.

• John-John got angry and punched the glass.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4