Figurative Language TGG – Flashcards
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Turning over in my mind
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Conduct may be founded on the hard rock
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With privileged glimpses into the human heart
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Some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as is he were related to one of those earthquake machines
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What preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
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The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe
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With the sunshine and great burst of leaves growing on the trees just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again that summer
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A pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courteous bay
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Like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end
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Spanking new
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A thin beard
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A cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion
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Hated his guts
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A snub-nosed motorboat
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Blew curtains in at one end and on the other like pale flags
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The frosted wedding cake of the ceiling
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Making a shadow on it as wind does the sea
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Out of the corner of her eyes
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All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath
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I've been lying on the sofa for as long as I can remember
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He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass
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She accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet
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Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square
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Each light deserting her with a lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk
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I am not even faintly like a rose
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God knows where
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She looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather secret society in..
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The crimson moon bloomed with light
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About a thousand years old
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Hyerbole
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A little heart-to-heart
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A cheerful scribage of light
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In a flower-like way
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A persistent organ sound as the full bellows the earth
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The silver pepper of the stars
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Ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens
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Where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys
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the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg
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There was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering
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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive
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Catching cold
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I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner
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The dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.
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Until it blows over
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Got gypped out of it all
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He wasn't fit to lick my shoe
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Cried to beat the band
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Some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if ropes, into my chair.
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I couldn't keep my eyes off of him
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Men and girls came and went like moths
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His station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug
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Glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color
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Easy money
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A few words in the right key
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Roaring drunk
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Enormous owl-eyed spectacles
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There was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.
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She appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond
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A wafer of a moom
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