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Examples of Figurative Language in Speak
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Similes Art follows lunch like dream follows nightmare.
2. Her forehead is as pink as her lipstick
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Metaphor 1. I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special. 2. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation rituals.
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Idiom I got my eye on you. 2. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it.
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Symbol 1. White Couch 2. Dead Frog 3. Trees
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Stereotype Jocks Goths Big Hair Chix Suffering artists
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Irony Our Teachers Are The Best…
We are no longer the Tigers because the name shows “shocking disrespect” for an endangered species. I know I am shocked.
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Hyperbole My English teacher has no face.
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Allusion Could I put a face in my tree, like a dryad from Greek mythology. Dryad-a dryad is a tree nymph. A nymph is a minor nature goddess.
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