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Examples of figurative language
Examples of figurative language
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"I am so hungry I could eat a horse", means that you could eat about anything.
What does "I am so hungry I could eat a horse", mean?
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The gun went "BOOM"!
What is the figurative language used in this sentence, "The gun went "BOOM"!
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"The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds".
What is the personification of the sun was behind the clouds?
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My dog is as smelly as my dirty socks.
How can you turn this sentence into a simile? My dog is smelly. Like my dirty socks.
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Passed away, a race well ran, came to a end, danced his last dance.
How do you phase, "He died", in a more polite way?
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The night is a big black cat, The moon is a topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night, In the field of sultry sky.
What is the part of figurative language used in this passage,"The night is a big black cat, The moon is her topaz eye, the stars are the mice she hunts at night, In the field of sultry sky".