Figuratively Speaking

There were two of them. That meant two helmets, two sets of cold eyes glaring at her, and four tall shiny boots planted firmly on the sidewalk... (p.2)

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life. (p.5)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“You’ve seen them; you know the tall one with the long neck, the one who looks like a silly giraffe?” (p.7)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“You’ve grown taller since I saw you last,” he told her. “You’re all legs.” (p.23)

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Annemarie shook her head. “Not in a million years.” (p.40)

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. (p.41)

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“That’s the worst thing in the world,” Ellen whispered. (p.42)

• figurative language

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

If they had wakened her, she would be wailing—or worse, she would be angry, and her fists would fly. (p.46)

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

High against the pale clouds, seagulls soared and cried out as if they were mourning. (p.56)

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The meadow ended at the sea, and the gray water licked there at damp brown grass flattened by the wind and bordered by smooth heavy stones. (p.61)

• figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D