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Figurative language in Home of the Brave - Coggle Diagram
Figurative language in Home of the Brave
Simile
"This cold is like claws on my skin." pg.3
"My arms stick out of my coat like lonely trees" pg. 4
"I smother the thought like an ember near dry grass" pg. 68
"We are like a cow and a goat wanting to be friends." pg 7
"He's like a song always out of tune" pg 7
" Red and round like a baby sun" pg 9
" Soft as new grass after good rain" pg 9
" Tears trace my cheeks like tiny knives" pg 18
Walking through snow is hard work like wading across a river" pg 13
" She isn't like my mother whose laughter is like bubbling water from a deep spring" pg 22
personification
"His car is red and coughs and burps when he tries to make it go" pg. 6
"Dead grass pokes through the unkind blanket of white." pg.4
" His eyes are wise and calm" pg 8
" Makes my eyes glad" pg 13
" Two chicken trot behind her scolding and fussing" pg 14
" It's window eyes weep yellow light" pg 17
The room turns to night then blinks awake" pg 23
idiom
"When the flying boat returns to earth at last" pg.3
"It makes for to many yawning". pg. 55
"Some of his words get lost on their way to my ears
"You just bring your mind and your smile" pg. 69
" But that farmers hanging on" pg 12
" My old life is waiting on the other side" pg 19
" Carved down to a sharp stone" pg 22
metaphor
Softer than a new calf's coat" .pg .34
" His mouth is a line" pg 40
"Her fingers are shiny red the color of blood" pg 53
" Iit's big enough to graze a herd of cattle in" pg 67
"His laughter makes little clouds" pg 5
" With skin the color of rich earth" pg 68
" To feel the sharp thorn of Lual's scolding once again" pg 38
" With the sour breath and slow growl of a starving animal" pg 113
"There is hair on his face the color of clouds before rain" pg.6
"They called america heaven on earth" pg 25