Maniac Magee - Figurative Language

"They say his stomach was a cereal box..."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

"Stones clanked off the steel rails..."

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

"He and Amanda and the suitcase were like a rock in a stream."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“And that’s how Jeffrey Magee knocked the world’s first frogball for a four bagger.”

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

“The trees rimming the outfield were flaunting their colors.”

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Stone was softer than the kid’s glare.”

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Beyond the tall pines, stars glittered like snowflakes.”

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

"He loved the sound of pancake batter hissing on the griddle."

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“He could run like a squirrel.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“He laid his fingertips on it [the knot], ... feeling for a pulse.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia