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Figurative Language from Home of the Brave - Coggle Diagram
Figurative Language from Home of the Brave
Simile
"This cold is like claws on my skin"! pg.3
"My arms stick out of the coat like lonely trees".pg.4
"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 like wading across a river wild with rain". pg.13
"Tears trace my teeth like tiny knives". pg.18
"We are like two calves in the clouds pretending we know haw to fly." pg.20
"Still though he could peck at me like a sharp-beaked bird." pg.38
"Sometimes it seems to me, a hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or tree." pg.39
"Outside snowflakes tap at the window like stubborn mosquitoes." pg.40
Personification
"His car is red and coughs and burps". pg.6
"His eyes are wary and smart."pg.20
"Everywhere girls watched him with shy smiling eyes." p.34
"And she meets my gaze with eyes that say she is a friend". p.56
"Only the snow talks". p.58
"Dave pushes a knob and the music box sings." p.59
"Her voice says she doesn't understand." p.83
Idiom
"My ears look like they want to fly me away." pg.34
"I laughed until my eyes rained." pg.37
"Have you lost your ears my stubborn brother." pg 37
"My aunt lets a smile go free." pg.40
"But even when you travel far the ghosts don't stay behind." p.44
"I see a cloudless day blooming full." p.47
"I kick at the world when i'm mad." p.48
Metaphor
"Carefully I step onto the blanket cloud." pg.35
"I would give all the beds in the great world to feel the sharp thorn of Lual's scolding again." p.38
"Her fingernails are shiny red the color of blood." p.53
"They called America heaven on Earth." p.25
"A cow is a god with a wet nose." p.15
"His laughter makes little clouds." p.25
"He isn't tall like my father was and there is hair on his face the color of clouds before they rain." p.
"We are in the middle of a sea of cars." p.231
"You are a fish in a warm pretending lake." p.