Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie Figurative Language

Having any brother would be horrible, I suppose, but having my particular brother, Jeffrey, is an unrelenting nightmare. (4)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I have mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick and braces that look like I tried to swallow a train wreck. (4)

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

And that's the problem: The kid follows me around like I'm Elvis or something. (4)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

On that tragic day, I came home, said hi to Mom, glugged down some milk, and headed down to the basement to practice. (5)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

I had this huge drum feature in this Brian Setzer song called "Jump Jive an' Wail," and I nailed the whole thing. (9)

• simile

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Just then, Renee Albert stopped right next to us to congratulate her boyfriend (we'll just call him Biff), a sophomore guitarist with an alarmingly perfect complexion and muscles like Barry Bonds. (10)

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Then two things happened at once: He started to scream like a banshee, and the drop of blood turned into a torrent. (16-17)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

It wasn't the first time I noticed this-- how Renee kind of swished around in a cloud of perfume, and Annette just popped up like some spastic hand puppet. (28)

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

I always think of it this way: "Here comes Steven, bursting into his Big Solo. Watch those hands-- they're too quick to follow. Holy cow, this kid is a magician!" Like there's a Monday Night Football commentator standing over my left shoulder. (30)

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

At the same time, the trumpets were blasting like a herd of elephants, with Dizzy's horn flying high above everything else. (32)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3