Freak the Mighty Figurative Language

"Like I'm paralyzed and my head is empty and all there is in the world is that big hand and this cool breath like the wind"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"She makes me sit up and shushes me to make sure I won't make any noise."

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• 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 really are a chip off the old block, you know that?"

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• 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

"That's what I feel like all over - numb and prickly and as light as a balloon."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• 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

"Freak says the sky is like a photograph from a billion years ago."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The sky is just some old movie they're showing up there and lots of those stars have switched off by now. They are already dead, and what we are seeing is the rerun."

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• 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

"You just sit tight here a minute," he says. "I have to see a man about a car."

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I'm standing there under the streetlight and it's amazing how quiet it is. Like everybody went away or died. The quiet is almost as big as he is."

• metaphor

• personification

• 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

"Tonight the pond is as empty as the moon, as empty as my head."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

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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's so cold, my teeth are chattering."

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• 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