Wonder - Parts 2-4: (Figurative Language)

"To Daisy, all our faces look alike, as flat and pale as the moon."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"She looked out at the ocean and spread her hands out, like she was trying to smooth out the waves."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"But after she died, I held on to that secret and let it cover me like a blanket."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

"I can't say she wasn't nice, because she was, but she seemed kind of distant, like I was a casual friend. It was the weirdest thing in the world."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"He put the PlayStation down and looked up at me as if I had just asked the dumbest question in the world."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"She looked so genuinely sorry I just wanted to let her off the hook."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"Mom and Dad met at Brown University and have been together ever since. Isabel and Nate: like two peas in a pod."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"So I jumped up kind of suddenly, like a bee had landed on me, and followed Veronica as she zoomed away."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Mom smiled, "I knew you'd rise to the occasion, kiddo. Good for you. I'm proud of you, Jackie."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

"Dad's a teacher and Mom's a social worker, which means they don't have those kinds of jobs where people make gazillions of dollars."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom