Figurative Language Freak the Mighty

"They were always trying to throw a hug on me, like it was a medicine I needed."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Man, they were death-ray eyes"

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"When it goes off your heart thuds to a stop for a millisecond, wham."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"She's...bouncing around the kitchen and talking a mile a minute."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Boy does that make his eyes blaze...so upset he can hardly talk."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Gram is uneasy, I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room, like she's crossing the border into a really foreign country."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"What she means is, you're a spitting image of your old man."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"One day this wimpy little kid tried it when nobody was looking and the sword slipped out like it was stuck in butter."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I must have seen her bringing Freak to daycare, way back in the dark ages."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"It makes him sort of out of breath, you can hear him wheezing, or I guess you'd call it panting, like a dog does on a hot day."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3