Freak the Mighty Figurative Language Ch. 1-15

“The screechy noise the nails make sounds like a cat fight…”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

“So early the next morning when Grim is still snoring loud enough to rattle windowpanes…”

• personication

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“…Grim has to apologize for being such a pig.” 

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

“…he’s making this huk-huk-huk noise.” 

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

“…You hit the nail on the head, son.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

“…he’s about a thousand years old…”

• simile

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“…it breaks my heart to lie to her.”

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“…listening to Grim make up stuff no one would ever believe in a million years 

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"...it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word."

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That's the fashion, the manager says s with this heh-heh-e=heh laugh."

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3