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25 Cards in this Set
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She was today.
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Metaphor
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She was tomorrow.
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Metaphor
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She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower.
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Metaphor
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We tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly.
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Simile
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She was like a breath of fresh air.
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Simile
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The car went clanking and clinking down the avenue.
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Onomatopoeia
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And the hammer banged its way into the door, until just splinters remained.
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Onomatopoeia
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My name is like the number nine.
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Simile
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My name is a muddy color.
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Metaphor
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He carried her off just like that; as if she were a fancy chandelier.
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Simile
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She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.
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Alliteration
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At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth.
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Simile
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But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sister's name Magdalena--which is uglier than mine.
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Alliteration
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My Papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air.
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Simile
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And me, my hair is lazy.
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Metaphor
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It never obeys barrettes or bands.
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Metaphor/Alliteration
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Nenny’s hair is slippery—slides out of your hand.
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Alliteration
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And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur.
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Simile
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But my mother’s hair, my mother’s hair, like little rosettes, like candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day,
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Repetition/Alliteration/Simile
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Mama's hair is the warm smell of bread before you bake it.
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Metaphor/Alliteration
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Even among the fairy folk, they were famous.
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Alliteration
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When the eldest son, Milo, married a fairy from the mushroom clan, their children looked just like him.
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Alliteration
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Her home is a prison.
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Metaphor
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America is a melting-pot.
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Metaphor
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My father is a rock.
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Metaphor
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