SEEDFOLKS: Figurative Language – Flashcards
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"Shot dead like a dog on the street"
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Wendell; simile
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"So he wandered around the apartment all day, in and out of rooms, talking to himself, just like a kid in diapers"
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Gonzalo; simile
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"He seemed to recognize them, like old friends"
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Gonzalo; simile
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" could recite them by heart, like a chapter out of Genesis"
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Leona; simile
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"The smell's enough to curl up a crocodile's nose, especially in the summer"
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Leona; metaphor
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" I've got two kids in high school that has more guns than books"
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Leona; metaphor
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"You can't measure the distance between my block and the city hall in miles"
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Leona; metaphor
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"They're all trained to be slippery as snakes"
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Leona; simile
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"I crossed to join them, like a cat who smells herring"
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Sam; simile
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"You've seen fishermen mending the rips in their nets. That's what I do, only with people"
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Sam; metaphor
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"Sewing up the rips in the neighborhood"
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Sam; metaphor
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He worked that soil until it flowed through your fingers like silk
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Sam; simile
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A duck gives birth to a duckling not a moose
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Sam; metaphor
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The dude screamed, just like women do with a mouse in cartoons, only louder
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Virgil; simile
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The tip of my shovel bounced off like a pogo stick
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Virgil; simile
