Figurative Language in Freak the Mighty Chapters 1-5

"I've never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"I had a way of saying things with my fists and my feet."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personficiation

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

“And Gram right away shushes him and says don’t ever say that, because little pictures have big ears, which makes me run to the mirror to see if it is my big ears made me look like Him.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"...he's exploding out of his shoes"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

“If you didn’t know, you would think he was like a kindergarten creeper who forgot how to walk, he’s that small.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

“It’s cool and dim in there and you float like a cloud – no, you are a cloud…”

• simile/personification

• metaphor/hyperbole

• simile/metaphor

• personification/hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5