FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE by Claire Morris https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2021-04-08 12:32:22 UTC 2025-10-21 12:58:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Instructions clairemorris4 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395548296 Post your examples from your writing of your use of figurative language...eg. personification, metaphor, simile, sound imagery (onomatopoeia)
an example: "my heart was beating through my chest like an angle grinder." (personification & simile)

]]> 2021-04-08 12:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395548296 gr325924_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395723497 1. "A thin sound cuts the air" Metaphor
2. "My eyes lay down on them" Metaphor
3. "their heads almost buried in the ground as an ostrich's" Simile
4. " I click the ON button on the TV. It ignores me" Personification
5. "Like an old man with a bad case of hunchback" Simile
6. “ 'Shut up!' ” I bark" Metaphor
7. "Satak!" Onomatopoeia
8. "Like a lone cloud on a blue sky" Simile
9. "as if praying? Calling the demons to hunt me down? Is he casting a spell on me?" Repetition
10. "Many memories flood back" Personification
11. "Eventually he drowned in grief and regret" Personification
12. "just to tame the guilt" Personification
13. "My mind is still too blurry to think about anything." Personification
14. "I beg my mind to go back to the present." Personification
15. "A faded memory of him sparks in the back of my mind" Personification
16. "His ignorance answers my question." Personification
17. "I remember the screaming sound of the tube that made my skin crawl" Metaphor
18." Puc, puc, puc" Onomotopoeia
19. "I remember the screeching sound of the tube that made my skin crawl" Personification
20. "Slap!" Onomatopoeia
21. "hand would meet Aai’s face with a mad Slap!" Personification.
]]> 2021-04-08 13:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395723497 gr344197_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395727850 "Even the trees were kneeling to the storm."  Personification

" ...are huddled together around Sita and I, like bears protecting their cubs."   Simile

"The lightning filled the sky like roti in my tummy." Simile]]> 2021-04-08 13:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395727850 Mel gr339077_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395729768 "And not that glue stench that taunts me all day."( Personification)

"The buildings look so high that maybe they could reach the moon." ( Metaphor)

"He's like a sneaky fox." ( Simile)

" I can tell Gopal is smart, but sometimes he acts dumber than a mule." ( Metaphor)

"I'm not a lifeless monster, I have a heart." ( Metaphor)

" I catch a glimpse of him through the crowd." ( Metaphor)

"But finding him will be like finding a needle in a haystack." (Simile) 

" I feel like I'm smashing the ground below me with every step." (Simile)

" I'm ready to give him a piece of my mind." (Metaphor)

" I feel like I have a fireball ready to explode."  (Simile)

" He looked like a dog that would do whatever I wanted." (Simile)

" But their heads are already as full of dreams as the ocean." (Simile)

" Gopal is looking at me like he is going to burn a hole through me." (Simile)

"I feel like a prisoner." (Simile)

]]> 2021-04-08 13:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395729768 Elisa https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395738119 1.  But, sometimes Boss can be meaner than a monster!
2.  It always seems like the street floor.
3. Khas-khas-khas-khas
4.  I’m feeling so hot as if I have just fallen into a volcano!
5. I sat up as quickly as a bolt of lightning while seeing Boss right in front of the stairs!
6. He was shaking so much that seemed like he saw a ghost!
7. And then he slaps him with more strength than whip!
8. “SLAP!” my Baba’s hands cross my Aai’s face,
9. following morning my feelings changed as quickly as a hummingbird’s wings.
10. “CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!” 
11. I hear Bosses’ hands smack together as if they were magnets.
12. washes all over me like waves in the ocean.
13. I try to send them away but they come to me like bees when you break their hive.
14. Every minute seems like an hour, 

]]> 2021-04-08 13:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395738119 Nicolas https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395744731  1. He tells me and barish to keep the group under control with eyes looking at us as  would a bagh his prey.


2., if  boss realizes we are united he’ll split us up like the savage he is.]]> 2021-04-08 13:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395744731 Marco https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395745689 1. "The flame in my chest is quietly and slowly withering" metaphor/personification

2. "The orphanage is a dreadful monster"
metaphor

3. "as if I was being swallowed up by darkness and hatred. " personification/simile

4. " I cannot avoid regret. "personification
5. "The regret was as heavy as a house, but mixed with despair, it became as soul crushing as death. " two similes  I guess
6."My grandmother flashed in my mind."
Personification
7.". The dice were against me" personification
8. " Just like me, my eyes were as dhoosar as dhoosar can get. " Personification(dhoosar means gray)
9. "They saw no hope" Personification
10."life hates us." Personification
11. "The thought popped up in my head that maybe someone noticed " personification
12."I could see he was on the brim of crying again." personification
13."She gave me a sour look and mumbled," personification
14."the floorboards creaked" personification ( floor boards cannot creak)
15. "SMASH! " Onomatopeia
16. "CLACK!" Onomatopeia
17. "soon the world turned, and the floor became a wall. " metaphor
18. " I am henceforth free. Ni: shulk. FREE. " repetition ( Ni: shulk is supposed to mean free)
19."It feels like history is repeating itself"
simile/personification
20."I felt like my heart was heavy," simile
21. "It sounded like I slipped somewhere"

]]> 2021-04-08 13:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395745689 Carolina gr323772_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395755122  1-I feel like a tree’s branch twisting painfully but no sound comes out.

2-Sadly, that feeling of Gopal healing, for everyone, eventually came to an end like the bright yellow sun suddenly becoming blue of sadness.

3-From what I hear, two policemen and an inspector enter the factory like enormous elephants in a stampede.

4-Finally we hear them go upstairs, thump, thump, thump...

5-We need to say we are trapped, but with these rags stuffing our mouths like eating the most delicious apple pie how can we?

6- The inspector calls the cook of the cool sweets shop and calls him ‘the creative cook that saved the helpless kids’.

7-Sadness is the silliest way to celebrate this special and life savior occasion.]]> 2021-04-08 13:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395755122 josef https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395764096 Sahil still doesnt rememer me, I feel as an empty bowl entering into that conclusion]]> 2021-04-08 13:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395764096 Nyah https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395799928 1.My alarm was yelling at me this morning.

2. the clouds are fluffy cotton candy 

3.the snow was as soft as a blanket 

4. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

5.i'm so hungry i could eat a horse

6.the sky was crying 

7. Friendship is like a pot of gold]]> 2021-04-08 13:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395799928 Lucas https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395883123 1.We'd be like mouse cowering to a cat
2.I'll be so hungry I could eat a cow

3.I Look around as a tense silence cuts the air
4.The tense silence creeps up on us

]]> 2021-04-08 13:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1395883123 Mia S. gr330048_1 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396001762 1. "They looked like weak little chickens who had been on the wet street with nothing but pebbles to eat and storms."
2. "the words pour out of my mouth with such ease, almost as if I had just gotten out of a warm bath."
3."His eyes seem shocked and confused, the same face you'd make when seeing an adult cry."]]> 2021-04-08 14:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396001762 Gabriel B. gr327092_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396602133 1. Someone steps on someone's foot, screams weave through the crowd, people fall, it is just like when the ocean can't take anymore raindrops. |Simile|
2. I am stuck in one place so I hold my breath and charge into the crowd like a bull going for the red flag. |Simile|
3. My gray eyes flicker with rage |Personification|
4. As if the hammer missed the nail, he drops his tray and wets everyone near. |Simile|
5. Shaking like a leaf, I look up to see that they are all looking at me. |Simile|
6. Like my eyes are possessed, they look up to see tons of repulsive faces staring into my soul. |Simile|
7.  Thud! |Onomatopoeia| 

]]> 2021-04-08 16:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396602133 Elliot gr341767_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396678832 1. THUD

2. Sita starts to cry it hurts like a knife to the heart to see her sob



]]> 2021-04-08 16:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396678832 Victor Yi gr340927_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396679515 1.  I was just leaving them for a while but it felt like I was leaving them forever. (Simile, Foreshadowing and Hyperbole)

2. This reminds me when Meeree Patnee and I had a dog and it disappeared like thin air. (Simile) 

3. I will call him Dog-Man because he cares like his dog was his family. (Simile) 

3. When my eyes fall, I feel like I am going to sleep forever. (Hyperbole and Simile)
 
]]> 2021-04-08 16:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396679515 Sofia gr334251_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396694549 1. "His big mouse trap, where we're the stupid mice who get manipulated into believing that someday we'll get cheese." (Analogy)

2. "Every time Gopal talks to him, his eyes shine like the sun." (Simile)

3. "His facial expression as if someone had just given him a present." (Simile)

4. "Everything that has happened in the past years come flooding back like a river." (Simile)

5. "They've found a target, and are just waiting to throw the darts." (Imagery) 

6. " It's your brain trying to trick you into believing that something can change." (Personification) ]]> 2021-04-08 16:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396694549 Jack gr340028_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396697026 1. CRASH
(onomatopea)
2. he is like a pig being stalked by a tiger
(simile)
3. the words are like a knife in my heart]]> 2021-04-08 16:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396697026 Mr.Ruki gr347094_1 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396824426 1.Grrrrrr-onomatopoeia

2.]]> 2021-04-08 16:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396824426 Erica https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396836757 1. The morning alarm is like thunder to me


]]> 2021-04-08 17:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1396836757 Stephanie https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1397290942 1. Gopal is as fast as a flash
(Simile)

2. When I wen`t to give the dogs food, the cat also wanted.
(Metaphor)

3. My  watary tears are faling like a water fall.
(Similie)]]> 2021-04-08 18:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1397290942 Betina gr338261_2 https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1399903720 1- "This annoying type of life is like a mouse stuck in a trap, he can't escape, but why would he escape? There's no point." (Simile)

2- "AAAAAA! I can hear the boys yelling in my head, it's haunting me." (Onomatopoeia, personification)

3-"What is Gopal even thinking? Why is he so khajoor? How would he even find his way home in this maha nagari? If we did that, what would even happen to the guys? They would all receive a kanpatti. Amar is so chota, he would suffer so much. " (Repetition)]]> 2021-04-09 13:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/clairemorris4/2p9bfl0c5psbf6xg/wish/1399903720