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Home of the brave (Similes (“It’s been a long time since I’ve known that…
Home of the brave
Similes
“It’s been a long time since I’ve known that feeling, like a soft blanket on a night when the wind howls.”
“Still, though he could peck at me like a sharp-beaked bird, Lual know well how to make his little brother laugh.”
“She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just-beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing.”
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The elevator is hiding near a row of puffy white coats, like clouds with arms.
"Blue and yellow, torn at the edges, the size of my hand, soft as new grass after new rain."
I pause, as a memory pokes at me like a knife in my back.
Metaphors
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I would give all the beds in all the great world to feel the sharp thorn of Lual’s scolding once again.”
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"Hunger is a wild dog gnawing on a dry bone, mad with impatience but hoping still."
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idioms
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"I try to understand but all I hear is a river of words,rushing and thundering and pushing me against the surface."
Personifacations
“Then I close the top and wait, while all around me the machines hum and talk.”
“It’s fall, and the trees are wearing red and orange coats to fight the icy nights. I think about the trees, the flowers, the brown grass in the fields. They can all be patient, certain that spring will return. They don’t have to hope. They can be sure.”
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Imagery
"We come across three lanes of cars and come to a thin strip of land covered with grass and tiny purple flowers.
"Its filled with books on shelves, climbing to the ceiling like little buildings."