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Home Of The Brave- Figurative Language Tano Costa (Similes ("a pile…
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Figurative Language
Tano Costa
Similes
"a pile of papers tall as a termite mound"
"my hope flutters high like a bird I cannot catch"
"a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish"
"Its lights cut the gloom like the eyes of great cat prowling for food"
"Her words begin to fall like raindrops on the floor"
"Ganwar's words lie in my lap, like huge rocks"
"His voice was deep,like a storm coming,but gentle, like the rain ending"
"I stand like a tree rooted firm"
Personification
"cold box humming"
"He pushes a tiny stick on the wall and the room turns to night,then blinks awake.
"Stars watched us sleep"
Metaphors
"They called America Heaven on Earth"
"A river of words rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface"
"The sun is a steady hand on our shoulders"
Imagery
"a green lady with her arm in the air.She is holding a green candle"
"I think of Gol hosing the ground, graceful"
Idioms
"Come, my child, she says as if we are going for a walk to look at the moon
"cutting off my nose to spite my face"
"lets get this show on the road"
"Sometimes it seems to me, a hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree