Freak the Mighty Ch. 1-5 Figurative Language

Front

"They were always trying to throw a hug on me, like it was a medicine I needed."

Back

simile

Front

"Man, they were death-ray eyes"

Back

metaphor

Front

"When it goes off your heart thuds to a stop for a millisecond, wham."

Back

onomatopoeia

Front

"She's...bouncing around the kitchen and talking a mile a minute."

Back

hyperbole

Front

"Boy does that make his eyes blaze...so upset he can hardly talk."

Back

metaphor

Front

"Gram is uneasy, I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room, like she's crossing the border into a really foreign country."

Back

simile

Front

"What she means is, you're a spitting image of your old man."

Back

idiom

Front

"One day this wimpy little kid tried it when nobody was looking and the sword slipped out like it was stuck in butter."

Back

simile

Front

"I must have seen her bringing Freak to daycare, way back in the dark ages."

Back

metaphor

Front

"Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real."

Back

simile