Literary Luminary

It was then that he wondered if he would ever kiss Laura again. It was then that he wondered if he was dying. (On the Sidewalk Bleeding)

• simile

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

You bring out the… The Aztec love of war in me. … The Pandora’s curiosity in me. … I claim you all mine, arrogant as Manifest Destiny. (You Bring Out the Mexican in Me)

• allusion

• flashback

• metaphor

• pun

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. (Thank You M’am)

• pun

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I kissed that white girl and when I opened my eyes, she was gone from the reservation, and when I opened my eyes, I was gone from the reservation living in a farm town where a beautiful white girl asked my name. … After that, no one spoke to me for another five hundred years. (Indian Education)

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• imagery

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

…he wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS. (On the Sidewalk Bleeding)

• rhyme

• allusion

• symbolism

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

As the spring air calms and the sky turns gray, a somber feeling grows strong as the sun fades away. I see the drizzles of rain trickle down my lonely windowpane. I hear a sound emerge beyond the clouds promising a night of rain. (Night After the Rain)

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• irony

• simile

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When someone dies, the clothes are so sad. They have outlived their usefulness and cannot get warm and full (The Sadness of Clothes)

• flashback

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

I picked up a basketball for the first time… it felt good, that ball in my hands, all those possibilities and angles. It was mathematics, geometry. (Indian Education)

• metaphor

• simile

• symbolism

• pun

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The old lady carried an umbrella with broken ribs, carried it like a queen. (On the Sidewalk Bleeding)

• pun

• irony

• foreshadowing

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

That was when he'd first joined the Royals. He could remember how happy he was when the Royals had taken him. (On the Sidewalk Bleeding)

• idiom

• personification

• flashback

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3