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Home of the Brave Figurative language- By Kayla Terrell (similes ("…
Home of the Brave Figurative language- By Kayla Terrell
similes
"The apartment grows hushed as the air before a storm".
"The way-down room smells like a rainy day".
"My machine begins to shake like a crazed dancer under a full moon".
"This is what laughing tastes like, I told her".
"Plops onto the sofa like a sack of grain".
"Strong cattle gently complaining like tired children".
"I stand like a tree rooted firm".
"Her arms hung like broken sticks".
Idiom
"I cringe ,waiting for the heat of his words".
"I cringe, waiting for the heat of his words
"With it's answers to prayers on every shelf".
"With it's answers to prayers on every shelf".
"Something grabs my throat and tries to steal the air away".
Metaphors
"For a while, you are a fish in a warm pretending lake".
"Carefully, I take a step onto the blanket cloud".
"A river of words rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface".
"The sun is a steady hand on our shoulders".
"In camp, I say, they called America heaven on Earth".
"We are in the middle of a sea of cars".
Imagery
"It's filled with blue water and laughing children".
"I see a picture of a woman, tall with strong arms and sunny eyes".
"Their leaves stop hiding and over my head they weave a cool roof of green".
Personification
"I can hear the cold box humming".
"I find a sleeping one and open the top".
"For my voice is swallowed by the roaring night".
"While all around me the machines hum and talk".
"The sun has already said good night".
"He pushes a tiny stick on the wall and the room turns to night, then blinks awake".