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When I was younger, he loomed large and scary, like a character in a horror story.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

The five minutes it took to run to my home on the other side of the field felt like a lifetime.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

Any disappointment I might have felt at not having a baby brother dissipated like powder in a running stream.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

As much as I tried to block it out, my parents’ expressions were etched into my mind.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

No one could ever get too annoyed with her, though, because she usually came bearing her prize jalebis, the twisted, sticky orange treats that would lure anyone to the door.

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Seema and I tried to fill her shoes.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

Sunlight peeked from behind the curtains.

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She was the invisible arm propping the family up.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

Mark my words...

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

hammering into my brain

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My mouth went dry like the dusty earth.

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His voice was ice water poured down my spine.

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You’re the one who took loans from a viper without breathing a word to me.

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How else to keep us forever under their thumb?

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...here the ceilings seemed to graze the sky.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

That was the life I was used to—and it felt as distant to this one as the stars in the night sky.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

There was a clear dividing line here, and I had to understand where I stood.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

My mother’s hair was black like the night sky, falling over her shoulders in waves.

What type of Figurative Language is used below?

I was so afraid of Jawad Sahib, I’d forgotten about his father, the monster in my childhood dreams. The bogeyman our mothers used to threaten us with when we were slow to finish our meals.