The figurative language of Maniac Magee

"Jeffrey fell to his knees. He and Amanda and the suitcase were like a rock in a stream; the school-goers just flowed to the left and right around them." THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Jeffrey fell to his knees. He and Amanda and the suitcase were like a rock in a stream; the school-goers just flowed to the left and right around them." THIS SIMILE WAS LIKELY USED BECAUSE...

• everyone knows school kids like to wade in streams

• water flows around a rock and the students had to flow around Jeffrey and Amanda

• both books and rocks weigh a lot

• Jeffrey threw Amanda's books in the stream by the school.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

"Finsterwald's backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and one-way boomerangs." WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS THIS?

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"Finsterwald's backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and one-way boomerangs." THE AUTHOR COMPARES THE BACKYARD TO A GRAVEYARD BECAUSE ..

• the author wanted you to think the house was haunted

• Finsterwald lived near a cemetery

• because a baseball is the same color as bones

• once the baseballs, Frisbees, and boomerangs land in the yard, they are never used again. (so it is like they die)

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"And why no kid on a snow day would ever shovel that sidewalk, not for a zillion dollars." WHAT FORM OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"He's paralyzed, a mouse in front of the yawning maw of a python." WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS THIS?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Another one hears it. A faint, tiny noise. A rattling. A chittering. A chattering. And getting louder - yes - chattering teeth." THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED HERE IS ...

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

"Unfortunately, he chose to put Arnold down at the one spot in town as bad as Finsterwald's backyard - namely, Finsterwald's front steps. When Arnold came to and discovered this, he took off like a horsefly from a swatter." THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IS ..

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

"They waited a pretty long time, but they figured, well, McNab's wizz probably would last longer than a regular kid's. Might even make the creek rise." THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ..

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which word in the excerpt is an example of onomatopoeia?

"And how he came to be called Maniac. The town was buzzing. The schools were buzzing. Hallways. Lunchrooms. Streets. "

• Maniac

• schools

• buzzing

• lunchrooms

• streets

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3