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Figurative Language From "Home Of The Brave" - Coggle Diagram
Figurative Language From "Home Of The Brave"
Similes
"Everywhere the snow sparkles with light hard as high sun." ~ Pg. 4
"The man gives me a fat shirt and soft things like hands." ~ Pg. 4
"No, this cold is like claws on my skin!" ~ Pg. 3
"My arms stick out of the coat like lonely trees." ~ Pg. 4
"He's like a song always out of tune, missing notes." ~ Pg. 7
"We are like a cow and a goat, wanting to be friends but wondering if it can ever be." ~ Pg. 7
"Blue and yellow, torn at the edges, the size of my hand, soft as new grass after good rain." ~ Pg. 9
"We stop at a light hung high in the air, red and round like a baby sun." ~ Pg. 9
Personification
"Dead grass pokes through the unkind blanket of white." ~ Pg. 4
"His car is red and coughs and burps when he tries to make it go." ~ Pg. 6
"His eyes are wise and calm, the eyes of a village elder." ~ Pg. 8
"My mouth is going to get very sore, stumbling on words all day long." ~ Pg. 9
"Yet to see her here in this strange land makes my eyes glad." ~ Pg. 13
"The wind sneaks through my coat." ~ Pg. 15
"Its window-eyes weep and yellow light." ~ Pg. 17
"The door opens and my old life is waiting on the other side." ~ Pg. 19
Idioms
"I stroke her cold, wet coat, and for a moment I hold all I've lost and all I want right there in my hand." ~ Pg. 16
"I can hear her struggle to find the English words, just like I do." ~ Pg. 27
"Kek finds sun when the sky is dark. " ~ Pg. 27
"I cannot find any sun today, think." ~ Pg. 27
"I laughed until my eyes rained." ~ Pg. 37
Metaphor
"His laughter makes little clouds." ~ Pg. 5
"Sometimes Dave speaks English, the tangled sounds." ~ Pg. 6
"To help him, I try some English, but my mouth just wants to chew the words and spit them on the ground." ~ Pg. 7
"His voice has the soft sting of pity in it." ~ Pg. 10