Figurative Language - Alicia Singer

"At times I feel that the only thing I have left behind me is a path of broken pieces." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" blog (metaphor)

"The land of 1,000 lies." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" Blog (metaphor/incomplete sentence!)

"Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat" -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)

"Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado." -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)

Figurative Language

"On the coldest nights, my lashes became icicles..." - simile

"Sometimes Justin and I slept on a gravelly rooftop" - similie

"sitting in a doughnut shop under a blank gray sky..." - cliche

"I could see my breath pooling in the dark and woke shivering in the middle of every night" - personification

-Alex Huang

Four Quotes (figurative language)

1.) "Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado." (Simile)

2.) "...being called a thief, a traitor, an Americanized thug, a murderer and some other terms almost as colorful as his tie." (Simile)

3.) "Or we might talk about that other great nemesis of the bathroom cleaner..." (Personification)

4.) "See, I am the vaccuum cleaner." (Metaphor)


- Mina Tanweer.

quotes

- "So this is the Downstairs, my chirpy first thought is." -- personification
-"You can arrive straight from welfare or, in my case, the bus station-fresh off the boat." --cliche
-"Outside, I can see the construction guys knocking back the Gatorade. . ."-- Kenning?
-". . .We'll drive by a Dairy Queen and Holly will say, 'They have great foursquares'- the local name for a sundae."--Kenning

-Elise Toth

Figurative Language

• "...confines me to flophouses and trailer homes—like the one, a pleasing fifteen-minute drive from town, that has no air-conditioning, no screens, no fans, no television..." (Simile)
• "...I note with satisfaction, look pretty much like me—faded ex-hippie types in shorts with long hair pulled back in braids." (Simile)
• "It was a grayish-yellow day that burns red in my memory... a day that easily rises to the surface when I contemplate the most horrible days of my life." (Personification)
• "The nine dancing puppets- excuse me, rotating presidents- were exclusively selected from the 'Governing Council', an interim council chosen by the CPA." (Kenning)

-Gloria Henderson

Figurative language

• "Everyone else seems to be as transfixed as I am." (Simile)
• ". . . we search like cat burglars for alternative points of entry. . ." (Simile)
• ". . . i see the female owner's enormous purple-encased butt staring up at me from the floor." (Personification)
• "Seems its marble walls have been "bleeding". . . " (Personification)

Quotes

...mosques with domes so colorful and detailed they look like glamorous Faberge eggs... (simile)
The tree I sat in was called "Steve's office", the fire pit was "Pete Brown's grave". (kenning)
...we stay behind, Cinderella-like, in their usually deserted homes. (simile)
...it's the brilliant green-and-yellow uniform that gives me away, like prison clothes on a fugitive. (simile)

-Silviya R. Petkova