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Figurative language from Home of the Brave - Coggle Diagram
Figurative language from Home of the Brave
Metaphors
"Carefully I take a step onto the blanket cloud." pg. 35
"to feel the sharp thorn of Lual's scolding once again." pg. 38
"In the camp, I say, they called America heaven on earth." pg. 25
Her fingernails are shiny red, the color of blood" pg. 53
"She's rounder than I remember, with a moon face to match, her black eyes set deep." pg. 20
"with skin the color of rich earth, just like mine." pg. 68
"A cow is God with a wet nose." pg. 15
"I look at our faces and see all the colors of the earth" pg. 73
"there is hair on his face the color of clouds before rain." pg.6
"Then more say it, and more, and soon we are a class of cattle." pg. 75
Similes
"We are like a cow and a goat, wanting to be friends but wondering if it can ever be" pg.7
"He's like a song always out of tune, missing notes." pg. 7
"Walking through the snow is hard work, like wading across a river wild with rain."pg. 13
"My arms stick out of the coat like lonely trees." pg. 4
"But Hannah's words tug like tight rope on a calf's neck." pg. 81
"Everywhere the snow sparkles with light hard as high sun." pg. 4
"I pause, as a memory pokes at me like a knife in my back." pg. 83
" No, this cold is like claws on my skin!" pg. 3
"On the floor lie blankets and pillows like gentle dunes." pg. 34
"Sahar from Afghanistan draws a camel, though to be truthful it looks like a lumpy dog" pg. 74
Personification
"with eyes that say she is a friend." pg. 56
"The icy air kicks at my chest." pg. 58
"with,shy smiling eyes." pg. 34
"Dave pushes a knob and the music box sings." pg. 59
"the stars watched us sleep" pg. 24
"To eat such happy food" pg. 81
"His eyes are wary and smart" pg. 20
Idioms
" How can you live in this place called America? It burns your eyes" pg. 4
"It's growing dark when I saw good bye to the cow" pg. 17
"I know her to be a woman of many sorrows, carved down to sharp stone by her luckless life" pg. 22
"Kek finds sun when the sky is dark" pg. 27
"Those are the stars that will guide my path home." pg. 57
"Two times I rise, pants wet, knees burning." pg. 18
"The kids will eat you alive, he says." pg. 60