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Figurative Language in Home of the Brave - Coggle Diagram
Figurative Language in Home of the Brave
Similes
"I am a tall boy like my people"
Outside snowflakes tap the window like stubborn mosquitoes
"We are like a cow and a goat waiting to be friends" pg 7
"We stop at a light hung high in the air red and round like a baby sun" pg 9
Walking through the snow is hard work
Dave turns to Ganwar who's sprawled on the couch like a dozing dog.
Chocolate pieces tease like jewels in sands
Her hair is short and silver like a fresh moon
when I take a deep breath of icy air it is like swallowing an arrow.
Maybe my words are broken like my aunts dishes
Metaphor
"His laughter makes little clouds"
There is hair on his face the color of clouds before rain
We stand there watching the cow's breath come in soft puffs.pg 141
I run my hands over covers softer then a new calf's coat .pg 34
A cow is god with a wet nose pg 15
I stand still in the stream of students pg 77
I have eyelashes of a girl
With skin of rich earth pg 55
I carefully take a step onto the blanket cloud
Dave looks at his arm clock
Idioms
This is what laughing tastes like pg 104
"I kick at the world when I am mad" pg 48"
"My aunt looks at me with questions in her eyes " pg 41
"The kids will eat you alive"
"When the flying boat returns to earth at last "pg 3
"My aunt lets a smile go free" pg 40
You come here to make a new life but your old life is still haunting you
Personification
"Let your hoping find the words"
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The door opens and my old life is waiting on the other side
Tears trace my face like tiny knives
Yet to see her here in this strange land it makes my eyes glad.
His eyes are wise and calm the eyes of a village elder
His red car coughs and burps