Figurative Language Red Kayak Examples – Flashcards
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"But Digger would turn all that good food down in a heartbeat for a pack of MRE rations.
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Simile
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...water can seem as smooth as glass.
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Oxymoron
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Perfect idiot
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Hyperbole
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But from Digger's point of view, we were only hanging out under our cliff, where we hung out a million times over the last 13 years.
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Repetition
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Five compressions. Another breath.
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Idiom
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Digger was down in the dumps that day...
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Symbolism
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packed some stuff in a trunk...they locked that trunk and put it in the corner of the attic
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Jargon
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...and right now, a bushel of big number-one jimmies would fetch me seventy dollars... (Think boat and crabbing examples)
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Alliteration
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swarm of snakes slithering into the water.
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Metaphor
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We waded through the ocean of yellow chicks.
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Personification
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Besides a lot of dust, a bunch of old memories drifted around me.
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Onomatopoeia
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The motor hummed steadily...
