Figurative Language
Figurative Language for Blog.ppt
- simile: The rumors spread like wildfire
- “My legs ached and my neck was stiff. But with each defeated kite, hope grew in my heart, like snow collecting on a wall, one flake at a time.”(Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 64)
- metaphor: That test was a piece of cake.
- Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.” (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 30)
- "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." (Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, page 7.)
- idiom: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- The way Jeri toots her own horn all the time is so irritating! (Link to idioms: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/idiom-examples-of-idioms.html
- personification: The brown grass is hoping for rain.
- "Whoever invented these boots should be shot because once the boots got ahold of your shoes they wouldn't let them go for anything."(Christopher Paul Curtis-The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 48)
- hyperbole: I will die if he asks me to speak in front of the class.
- "I started throwing up a ton of water and food. If there was a forest fire somewhere all they would have to do is hold me over it and I would have put it out! I threw up and coughed and choked and vomited about a million times, and all this just because I'd breathed in some air!"
(Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 178)
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