The Color of My Words

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"Sometimes Mami's words are a puzzle."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"Muchahcha, your head is getting bigger than your hat."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"I could see the river, meandering over rocks, hungry for rain."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"And if we didn’t stick together then one dark night those very same questions would eat us up and spit our bones across the sand." P. 92

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

In my dreams I could dance like a fairy, smooth and beautiful, with dresses that floated around my knees.

• personification

• simile

• symbolism

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"You are this river, Ana Rosa."

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"Mami's slap will last a lifetime."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"The dress was a column of ivory laced with threads of gold and when Angela walked she shimmered like the Christmas angel on top of the tree in Roco's Cafe."

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"Our radios are perched like black birds on our porches to warn passersby that someone is at home and to pick up your feet."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:

"He dances like the wind."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4