Restart Figurative Language

The world around me disappears. I'm being shut down like a machine.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

They look at me like I'm a time bomb about to go off in their faces. What did I ever do to them?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• proverb/adage

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The light is harsh, fluorescent, painful. I squeeze my eyes shut, but I can't keep it out. It's an explosion.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• pun

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I try to make out who's there, but the light is killing me.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

My mind is a black hole. There might be a lot in there, but it can't get out.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Dopey doctor," my father snorts. "What does he weigh? One-forty, soaking wet?"

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"We've been over this a million times. This is the best thing for Joel."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

All the anger that's been building inside me since Joel left for Melton rises to the surface like magma.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

And you know what? He knocked it out of the park.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

"We'll also be producing the school's video yearbook," the teacher goes on. "That's something you can sink your teeth into."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B