The water made a sound like kittens lapping.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She was sleeping, but she heard the boot scrape, the creaking floor, felt the pull of the blanket from her thin shoulder.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The rain came down in long knitting needles.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Some words are lazy, saunter, hazy.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

People moved slowly then, There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray sculptured stones.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time, for the new friendship flourished like grass in spring.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My knees were jelly.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D