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Figurative Language Walter Dean Myers Sharon DraperEdgar Allan PoePicture BooksOdds and Ends 10 20 30 40 50 Slide 2 The bathroom was as dirty as the bottom of my shoe. Dope Sick Slide 3 Basketball is my life. Slam! Slide 4 You could smell the stink of gunpowder and hear the distant burping of machine guns. Fallen Angels Slide 5 When I got down to Carls Curio shop he was talking to a girl who smelled like the toilet in a mens room. Slam Slide 6 He looked like one of the characters from an Archie Andrews comic, but was so scared it wasnt funny. Fallen Angels Slide 7 Julios voice melted her socks. Romiette and Julio Slide 8 The rest of the school day tiptoed by while everyone waited nervously for the return of the Tollivers. double dutch Slide 9 The grass grew long and thick, like a bright green carpet. November Blues Slide 10 Shes like a deep lake and youre a bowl of goldfish water! The Battle of Jericho Slide 11 And never touch the hot thing that Mama used to light her cigarettes, even if the mysterious orange and blue fire that comes out of it liked to tease you and dance for only a moment before running away. Forged by Fire Slide 12 I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. The Fall of the House of Usher Slide 13 For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, A Valentine Slide 14 Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night! The Bells Slide 15 Quoth the Raven, Nevermore. The Raven Slide 16 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. The Raven Slide 17 It is said in Alabama that the moon works the Night shift that the sun can get some rest. Tambourine Moon Slide 18 That yellow-bellied, snake-blooded, skunk- eyed, rancid son of a parallelogram. Little Red Cowboy Hat Slide 19 Yoshi dances to lure customers and shakes his coin box like a tambourinechin chin jara jara. Yoshis Feast Slide 20 In his youth, the fathers family cooked over a fire that lived in a scooped out place in the middle of the floor. Faraway Home Slide 21 The little girl told the boy, Heaven is a house with porch lights. Switch on the Night Slide 22 Snap! Crackle! Pop! Slide 23 Whisp, meow, swish Love That Dog Slide 24 The bubbly, mushy nectar felt like heaven as it flowed over his dry mouth and down his parched throat. Holes Slide 25 Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. Emily Dickinson Slide 26 Small as a peanut, Big as a giant. Were all the same size When we turn out the lights. Shel Silverstein