Look Both Ways Figurative Language

What figurative language is this: "TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled" (Reynolds 3).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "Jasmine stared into TJ's nose like she was peering through a brown microscope of flesh" (Reynolds 3).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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What figurative language is this: "TJ always asked Mrs. Bronson, the choir director, to let him sing solos even though his voice was all over the place. [It was] a set of windchimes in a hurricane" (Reynolds 6).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "TJ wore satisfaction on his face like good lotion" (Reynolds 7)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "Just a really uncomfortable conversation at the kitchen table with her folks looking at her like she was an exotic fish in a sandwich bag, darting back and forth" (Reynolds 8)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "Her hands and feet swelled like plastic gloves full of water, heavy and tight, ready to burst" (Reynolds 9)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "...where every house looked like the last house, like a choir of homes dressed in the same robes, turned the same way, singing the same melody in the same key, which makes for a boring, boring song" (Reynolds 11).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "The sound of the bell ringing, signaling the end of the day, might have been a starter pistol or an air horn" (Reynolds 22).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "...some boy in a uniform holding a broken skateboard across his lap like a hurt dog" (Reynolds 23)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What figurative language is this: "Buses, both public and school, grumbling..." (Reynolds 26)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole