Blackwater Figurative Language

"...he'd handed me the phone about a year too late."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The old Blackwater run real fierce out there. Dad says it's mad because we tamed it."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"A plastic bag filled with light and air came cruising down the river like a fat, fake, billowy jellyfish."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Pauline was the wishbone out of the Thanksgiving turkey."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I swung around and saw the two dark heads, round as soccer balls bobbing close to the other bank."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I plowed into the water, feeling it yank at my legs, greedy to pull me down."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I lay there, gasping like a beached fish..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I felt the Blackwater reach for me, felt its hunger."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I was a frog on his back."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I felt that I'd jump to the moon and back!"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A