Figurative Language in Freak the Mighty

"Because they were always trying to throw a hug on me, like it was a medicine I needed" (Philbrick 1).

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I'm just this critter hiding out in the basement" (Philbrick 6).

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Television is the drug of fat heads" (Philbrick 19).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I read tons of books" (Philbrick 19).

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot" (Philbrick 25).

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You must have ants in your pants" (Philbrick 45).

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...lifting their little kids up to see the fireworks explode like hot pink flowers in the sky" (Philbrick 32).

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"He's about a thousand years old" (Philbrick 91).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That's how these people live, like hamsters in cages" (Philbrick 103).

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The soft chair keeps a hold of me" (Philbrick 111).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3