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Figurative language in Home of the Brave - Coggle Diagram
Figurative language in Home of the Brave
Personification
Ganwar is thin and reedy where my father was sturdy with strength his eyes are wary and smart pg 20
"He turns to smile his eyes are wise and calm". pg 8
"In the strange land makes my eyes glad " pg 13.
"This is a light switch He pushes a tiny stick on the wall and the the room turns to night and blinks awake" pg 23
"Like a soft blanket on a night when the wind howls pg 28
"The sun gave us light and the stars watched us sleep" pg 24.
"My arms stick out of the coat like lonely trees."pg 4
Simile
Tears trace my cheeks like tiny knifes.Pg 18
The way down room smells like a rainy day pg 93
I think An ache in my chest comes throbbing like an old bruise.
He footprints catch the flakes then vanish like pebbles in quicksand pg 91
He surprises me with a smile like Lual Might
My arms stick out of the coat like lonely trees pg 4.
we are like a cow and a goat pg 7
This cold is like claws on my skin pg 3
"soft as new grass after good rain" pg 9
"red and round like a baby sun" pg 9
Metaphor
"His laughter makes little clouds" pg 5
l I would give all the beds in the great world to feel the sharp thorn of Lual's scolding once again". Pg 38
With the sour breath and slow grow of a starving animal.
"Her finger nails are red and shiny the color of blood" pg 53
"With skin the color of rich earth" pg 68.
I look at our faces and see all the colors of the earth.
"I run my hands under covers softer than a new calfs coat " pg 34
"And there is hair on his face clouds before rain" pg 6
"and strange and wonderful smells and many students chattering I stand in a line and soon kind,white hatted people fill my plate high with food". pg 77
"In america I say they call it heaven and earth" pg 25
idiom
I feel like I gulped down a laugh that needs to be free pg 99
I know about chocolate At the camp a helping doctor gave me a small peace to try This is what laughing tastes like I told her pg 104
The apartment grows hushed as the air before the storm i turned on the TV machine but the words are to fast coming pg 92
"you need some time to get your feet wet" pg 108
"I take the school bus home its a long yellow car" pg 85
"you just bring your mind and smile every day" pg 69
"I like this American paperwork, I whisper to Dave. It makes to many yawning pg 55