Thursday, November 17, 2011

Figurative Language:


What examples of figurative language and sound effects can you find in the book? Put the example in quotation marks, list the page number, and tell what type it is.

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  1. "Crack!" ; pg. 8 ; Onomatopoeia

    "...flew slowly and gently like snippets of newsprint floating down through the air..." ; pg. 9 ; Simile

    "...I had been feeling like I'd been in a fight." ; pg. 17 ; Similie

    "He felt like a rag in my arms." ; pg. 28 ; Simile

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  2. Asking me to sit down while I delivered the Sunday message, was like asking an Italian to talk without using his hands.-Simile

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  3. "Her routine manner told me she did not feel our urgency, and inside me, a rocket of anger went off." -p. 31; Hyperbole

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  4. "His face a tiny moon in the stark hallway." -pg. 36 Metaphor

    "The waiting room ticked with a pregnant silence." -pg. 42 Personification

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  5. "Time dragged, the minutes moving at the speed of glaciers." -p. 42 Metaphor

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  6. "'Jesus just went up and down like an elevator.'" -pg. 72 Simile

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  7. "We slept like shipwrecks on their first warm, dry night." pg.50 Simile

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  8. "I could see wheels turning behind his eyes." - Hyperbole

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  9. "Sea anemones that looked like underwater blossoms."- Simile

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