Long Walk Figurative Language

" Salva felt his knee turn to water."

• hyperbole

• pun

• joke

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Herds of cattle had been brought to good grazing ground...

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"It was like music, the sound of Akeer's laugh."

• simile

• division

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

At last the sun was reluctantly forced from the sky.

• personification

• biology

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The birds at the muddy pond all flap and twitter and caw...

• onomatapoeia

• multiplication

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Salva's mouth closed and opened again, as if he was a fish."

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The Nile, the longest river in the world, the mother of all life in Sudan.

• metaphor

• simile

• definition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He felt his heart sink.

• hyperbole

• allergy

• antonym

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A