Bud, Not Buddy Figurative Language Chapters 1-3

All the kids watched the woman as she moved along the line, her high-heeled shoes sounding like little firecrackers going off on the wooden floor.Pg. 1

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Jerry looked like he'd just found out they were going to dip him in a pot of boiling milk.  
Pg. 2

• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

...I followed Jerry back to the room where all the boys' beds were jim-jammed together.  pg. 3

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

...cause it's around six that grown folks stop giving you little swats and taps and jump clean up to giving you slugs that'll knock you right down and have you seeing stars in the middle of the day.Pg. 4/5

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Unless you're as stupid as a lamppost you've got to wonder what's coming off next, your arm? Pg. 5

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devistators of the Depression.Pg. 7

• Alliteration
• Personification
• Idiom
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

I fell to the floor and pulled my knees up to my chest and crossed my arms in front of my head like a turtle in a shell.  
Pg. 10

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

In her eyes, Todd's mouth was a prayer book.  
Pg. 12

• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Todd hadn't quit lying since the second I came to his house.  
Pg. 12

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

...I woke up from a good sleep because it felt like a steam locomotive had jumped the tracks and chug-chug-chugged its way straight into my nose.  
pg. 12

• Hyperbole & Metaphor
• Hyperbole & Simile
• Allusion & Simile
• Alliteration & Idiom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4