Figurative Language Questions And Answers – Flashcards
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Can't catch my breath
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Stole away
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Their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air
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scar
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drew to a point at infinity
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then returned as a fighter plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned piggy
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the palm fronds would whisper
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sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright winged things in the shade
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a blur of sunlight was crawling across his hair
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my auntie mooed like a cow
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clouds of birds rose from the treetops, and something squealed and ran in the undergrowth.
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boys were bullet-headed
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panting at Ralph like dogs
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the choir, who perched like black birds
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a storm of laughter arose
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straight away
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what on earth
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like icing on a pink cake
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the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles
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this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper
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the creepers were as thick as their thighs
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come on
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the rock was as large as a small motor car
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the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster
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like a bomb
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a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort
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insect-like figures moving near it
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bong! doink!
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the breezes has chased their tails
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he was a shrimp of a boy
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the passionate noise of agreement from the assembly hit him like a wave
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shut up
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gone tea-time
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psss. psss.
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yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame
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the breeze was a river of sparks
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life became a race
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the fire thrust out a savage arm of heat
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the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound and sent a great tree of sparks upwards
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the boys lay, panting like dogs
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the sun in the west was a drop of burning gold
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the sill of the world
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a tree exploded in the fire like a bomb
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tell em off
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crackers
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the trickle of smoke sketched a chalky line
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up and in the shade, resting during the heat
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steal up on
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buzzed off
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turned his back on this
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with an air of
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the coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down
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the booming of a million bees at pasture
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the creepers dropped their ropes
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the creepers shivered throughout their lengths
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the creepers had woven a great mat that hung
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the whole space was a bowl of heat and light
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a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other
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simon dropped the screen of leaves back into place
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their scent spilled out into the air adn took possession of the island
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the green candle-like buds
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