Refugee figurative language--chapters 1-6

Josef is traveling by train and when he is on the platform, "All of the station attendants flowed around him like water around a stone."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Josef is traveling by train and when they were on the platform, "All of the station attendants flowed around them like water around a stone."

What does this mean?

• The attendants rushed into him.

• The attendants were angry.

• The attendants avoided him.

Ruth pulled her coat on when her mom told her to wear it. Ruth had a little gap between her two front teeth that made her look like a chipmunk.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

When Josef's armband fell off, he "could barely walk. His legs were like lead."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

When there was chaos in the streets, Isabel noticed that there people were thick on the ground as sugarcane. This compares:

• chaos and the ground

• people and the ground

• people and sugarcane

• streets and people

Waleed sat like a zombie and watched TV that was "dubbed" (voice over another language). This is similar to which sentence?

• Mahmoud begins to pray without Waleed.

• Waleed is described as "catatonic" or motionless.

• His mom holding a cell phone.

Mahmoud follows Islamic traditional prayer rituals. After his brother joins him, he heard a "roar like a hot wind rising outside." Then, "it was like someone was sitting on his chest" because he could not breathe. What happened?

• The prayer was over.

• A bomb struck his home.

• Waleed turned the volume of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up loudly.

Josef's father was a skeleton in a suit three sizes too big.

• Simile-comparing his father to a skeleton.

• Metaphor-comparing his father to a skeleton.

• Personification

Syria, I hear your cry...I will not write poetry for anyone else.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Home is the mouth of a shark

• personification

• metaphor

• simile