Refugee: Figurative Language, Chapters 1 - 12

"CRACK! BANG! Josef Landau shot straight up in bed, his heart racing." (1)

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• pun

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

"Towering shadows burst into the room. The air seemed to crackle around them like static from a radio." (2)

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• irony

"Its tummy purred like an outdoor motor, and it butted its head against Isabel's hand in between bites." (7)

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• pun

"But a few years ago, in 1989, the Soviet Union had fallen, and Cuba had hit rock bottom." (8)

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

"Yes, but they are all players for the Lions, and she's a little lion!" (9)

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"Close the door that brings the wind and relax" (14).

• Metaphor

• irony

• imagery

"[Aleppo had been] A crown jewel of the Middle East." (14)

• Humor

• irony

• metaphor

• imagery

• allusion

"Syria was ruled by Bashar al-Assad, who had twice been 'elected' president when no one was allowed to run against him." (14)

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• irony

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

"With a battle cry that would have made Wolverine proud, Mahmoud had launched himself at Khalid's attackers." (16)

• idiom

• irony

• proverb

• allusion

“She saw her papi just as he reared back and threw a bottle that smashed into the lie of police along a seawall. It was the last straw for the police.” (27)

• idiom

• irony

• proverb

• imagery

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5