Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie Figurative Language – Flashcards
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Having any brother would be horrible, I suppose, but having my particular brother, Jeffrey, is an unrelenting nightmare. (4)
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I have mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick and braces that look like I tried to swallow a train wreck. (4)
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And that's the problem: The kid follows me around like I'm Elvis or something. (4)
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On that tragic day, I came home, said hi to Mom, glugged down some milk, and headed down to the basement to practice. (5)
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I had this huge drum feature in this Brian Setzer song called "Jump Jive an' Wail," and I nailed the whole thing. (9)
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Just then, Renee Albert stopped right next to us to congratulate her boyfriend (we'll just call him Biff), a sophomore guitarist with an alarmingly perfect complexion and muscles like Barry Bonds. (10)
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Then two things happened at once: He started to scream like a banshee, and the drop of blood turned into a torrent. (16-17)
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It wasn't the first time I noticed this-- how Renee kind of swished around in a cloud of perfume, and Annette just popped up like some spastic hand puppet. (28)
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I always think of it this way: "Here comes Steven, bursting into his Big Solo. Watch those hands-- they're too quick to follow. Holy cow, this kid is a magician!" Like there's a Monday Night Football commentator standing over my left shoulder. (30)
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I always think of it this way: "Here comes Steven, bursting into his Big Solo. Watch those hands-- they're too quick to follow. Holy cow, this kid is a magician!" Like there's a Monday Night Football commentator standing over my left shoulder. (30)
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That's yet another cool thing about music: If you show off in sports, you're a "hotdog," if you show off in class you're a "brainiac," but if you show off in drumming, people love it. (31)
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At the same time, the trumpets were blasting like a herd of elephants, with Dizzy's horn flying high above everything else. (32)
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I remember thinking, "Wow! A protector. Not everybody gets to be a protector! I'm gonna be like Robin Hood. I might eve get to wear a badge..." (38)
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By the time we go to the maternity ward, and I saw the balloons, the flowers everywhere, and my three other grandparents crowded around an incubator crying and smiling like they'd just won the Powerball Lotto, I was having second thoughts about this whole 'protector' gig. (38)
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The thing I couldn't believe was how this cancer thing turned the whole planet upside down in one day. (39)
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Steven, I look like a raccoon. (47)
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Actually, he looked like some deranged anteater, but I didn't figure that would be the thing to tell him. (47)
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This kid looks like he just lost a boxing match with a gorilla. (48)
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So for the rest of the week, while I was walking around in a fog, I didn't say a word. (51)
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Fortunately, my dad has a Stone Age stereo system in the basement with an actual turntable, so I was playing along with at least one whole Latin record each night. (54)
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Fortunately, my dad has a Stone Age stereo system in the basement with an actual turntable, so I was playing along with at least one whole Latin record each night. (54)
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Well, my journal was starting to look like some kind of weird origami factory, with page after page folded on different angles and edges sticking out all over the place. (56)
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You know how baseball players sometimes talk about games when the ball seemed to be coming at their bats in slow motion, looking like a gigantic freeze-frame cantaloupe just waiting to be pounded? (61)
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