Bud, Not Buddy Figurative Language

The caseworkers came in and tap-tap-tapped down the line.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

Her high-heeled shoes sounding like little fire-crackers going off on the wooden floor

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

In her eyes, Todd's mouth was a prayer book.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Todd hadn't quit lying since the second I came into his house.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

Dusky Devastators of the Depression

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

As stupid as a lamppost

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

I fell to the floor and pulled my knees up to my chest and crossed my arms in front of my head like a turtle in a shell.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

My fist came open and when my hand landed it made a pop like a .22 rifle going off.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

The last kid who got put in there got stung so bad he was swole up as big as a whale when he got him out in the morning.

• Simile & Personification

• Metaphor & Onomatopoeia

• Simile & Hyperbole

• Idiom & Hyperbole