Figurative Language Examples Flashcard
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Your breath looks exactly like a train blowing out big, fat, white puffs of smoke.
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It was about a zillion degrees below zero.
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The boy had a head shaped just like a hambone.
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That snake int he grass has his phone off the hook.
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I'd pick him off easy as nothing.
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Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven
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like one foot was nailed to the porch
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onomatopoeia
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glub, glub, glub
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whack! whack! whack!
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Momma and Dad had threatened to send Byron to Grandma Sands about a million times.
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The first reason was that Alabama was about two million miles.
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If you were stupid enough to ask your question again, there would be the loudest quiet in the world.
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"Feel the coolness. It feels like you're running your fingers through silk."
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"...when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful; Lawrence Welk Show..."
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The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again.
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onomatopoeia
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"Just tell Mr. Mitchell you want to sign for it." and another onion was whacked.
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Then my neck got rubberized again and my head nodded down.
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When I saw nothing and looked back Dad was smiling a mile a minute.
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...everything smelled light and green..."Feel the coolness. It feels like you're running your fingers through silk."...the air seemed slippery and cool as it blew on your hand.
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both me and momma smelled a rat.
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onomatopoeia
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"Lemme!" Whack! "See!" Whack "Them" Whack! "Gloves!" Whack
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"I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting Earth.
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"Ready, aim, fire!"
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About a million fingers pointed at the new kids
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...laughs almost knocked them (Rufus and Cody" over
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And Byron Watson, if you are capable of taking some of the fire out of your eyes.
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I think Byron was proud of me!
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I think Byron was proud of me!
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The Langston Hughes book jumped from my hand and the whole class laughed.
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Larry Dunn was the king of the kindergarten to fourth grade.
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I bet Byron's lips stretched about a mile before they finally let go of that mirror.
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The smell of bacon dragged me to the kitchen.
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Byron fell out of the tree like a superhero
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"It's a zillion degrees below zero."
