Holes Figurative Language – Flashcards
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"You'll be buzzard food"
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"Because there's nothing inside his head."
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"He was so thirsty he felt as if he would die."
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" a pair of sneakers fell on top of him like a gift from God"
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"the key"
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"destiny's shoes"
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"Only ten million more to go"
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"you felt as if she was looking right through you"
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"This isn't a Girl Scout Camp"
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"The surface of the table reminded Stanley of the surface on the lake"
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said and orange lump.
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"don't want to mess"
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"trying to start anything"
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"Time flies"
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Green Lake was Heaven on earth"
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It dried up with the lake
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the temperature gad gotten so hot that the air itself was sweating.
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It felt more like a thousand
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got a little hot
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blood starts to boil
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Zero held the shovel out in front of him, as if he were going to bat away the bullets
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kept an eye out
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it felt like heaven
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the sun, a fiery ball balancing on top of Big Thumb. God was twirling a basketball
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the rock had absorbed his energy and now acted like a kind of giant magnet pulling him toward it.
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its a hot fudge sundae
