Raymond’s Run Figurative Language – Flashcards
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"And Rosie who is as fat as I am skinny and has a big mouth where Raymond and that she can't afford to throw stones" (Page 42).
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"I'll prance down 34th Street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong" (Page 40).
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""So now she hang out with the new girl Gretchen and talks about me like a dog" (Page 42).
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"The biggest thing on the program is the May Pole dancing, which I do without, thank you, even if my mother thinks it's a shame I don't take part and act like a girl for a change" (Page 43).
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"He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie" (Page 44).
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"Every time, just before I take off I feel like I'm in a dream, the kind of dream you have when you're sick with fever and feel all hot and weightless" (Page 45).
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"Getting blown through the sky like feather that weighs nothing at all" (Page 46).
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"The I hear Raymond yanking at the fence to call me and I wave to shush him, but he keeps rattling like a gorilla in a cage in them gorilla movies" (Page 46-47).
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"Then like a dancer, or something he starts climbing up the nice and easy but very fast" (Page 47).
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"And tomorrow I'm subject to run the quarter-mile relay all by myself and come in first,second, and third" (Page 39).
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"And as anybody can tell you, I'm the fastest thing on two feet" (Page 39).
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"Or sometimes if you don't watch him he'll dash across traffic to the island in the middle of Broadway and give the pigeons a fit" (Page 40).
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"- Chopin's waltzes just spring out her fingertips and she's the most surprised thing in the world" (Page 41).
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"Then they all look at Raymond who has brought his mule team to a standstill" (Page 42).
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"I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I an a little girl with skinny legs and arms and a squeaky voice, which is how I got the name Squeaky" (Page 39).
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"The twenty-yard dash takes all of two minutes cause most of the little kids don't know no better than to run off the track or run the wrong way or run smack into the fence and fall down and cry" (Page 45).
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"Then I hear Raymond yanking at the fence to call me and I wave to shush him" (Page 46).
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"-Chopin's waltzes just spring out her fingertips and she's the most surprised thing in the world" (Page 41).
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"I say straight at Gretchen who is as far as I'm concerned, the only one talking in this ventriloquist-dummy routine" ( Page 42).
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"Says Rosie, trying to signify with her hands in her hips all salty" (Page 42).
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""Strolling down Broadway toward the ice man on 145th with not a care in the world cause I am Miss Quicksilver herself" (Page 43).
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"He sticks out in a crowd because he's on stilts" (Page 44).
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"-Chopin's waltzes just spring out her fingertips and she's the most surprised thing in the world" (Page 41).
