Full Tilt Figurative Language – Flashcards
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Since he left, *our lives have been a roller coaster.*
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*Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel* ready to explode.
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I hurried toward the roller coaster, *ready to kill my brother...*
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...and something inside him *closed up like a camera shutter.*
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My panic built as *people ran to the empty line like passengers leaping from the Titanic.*
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My *stomach tried to escape* through my eyeballs.
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My *brain became a pancake* pressed to the dome of my skull
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*Ow!*
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ONOMATOPOEIA
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*They seemed like windows* to some other place.
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Quinn *whooped* and wailed, loving the feeling
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The wind, the light of the park, *the whole world disappeared into my screaming mouth...*
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This one's *on the house.*
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Those bottles flew like they were *hit by a freight train.*
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I think those bottles would have fallen even if I had *hurled the ball at the moon.*
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...blasting music loud enough to *shake the house from its foundation.*
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*Wham!*
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ONOMATOPOEIA
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A dart *zipped* through the air headed straight for my face.
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*Lo mein noodles dangled from his chin like worms* as he sucked them in.
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*The floor rising like a black wave* before me as the front end of the bus tilts forward...
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Russ *picked at the peeling paint* of the ocean mural.
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...suddenly had *cold feet* for this amusement park."
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*The floor of the bus is a rising wave.*
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...the air began to *hiss,* bringing the pods back down to the ground.
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...I could see the very top of a Ferris wheel rising above the fog, churning the *moonlit mist* like a riverboat paddle.
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...I could see the very top of a *Ferris wheel* rising above the fog, *churning the moonlit mist like a riverboat paddle.*
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Lap bars popped up with a *clang...*
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Although she stood in the *midst of the moving masses,* their footsteps avoided her...
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The *wave hits. It swallows me.*
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The *hydrant became a geyser.*
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...I had enough *road rage* to flatten a hundred *sneering snots* in their *lousy little* cars.
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*It was as irresistible as a summertime thirst,* and I felt I'd do anything to quench it.
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...the kind that must have been brushed a thousand times to make *it [hair] flow in a perfect fall of copper silk.*
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*Eyes as blue as glacier ice or a gas flame.*
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Russ started *pacing in circles like a gorilla in a cage.*
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I had enough strength to *hurl him into the eclipsed sun.*
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*Objects moved across the obsidian face like huge scurrying beetles.*
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...a sliver of a *moon hung on its side...*
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...I scavenged through the fridge, finding *doggie bags...*
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...cobble-stone streets lined *by brown-bricked buildings and old-fashioned billboards.*
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...and I felt my gut collapsing *into a knot...*
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...an awful metallic *click-click-click* of a chain.
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...mismatched teeth that would plague a *dentist's darkest dreams.*
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*Rat-a-tat-tat...*
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*Road rage consumed her like a fungus...*
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Then he leaped into the gaping mouth of the cave and *the darkness swallowed him.*
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*...moon hung on its side like a half-closed eyelid...*
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