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Classic Examples of Figurative Language
- It's raining cats and dogs!
- Break a leg!
- Hold your horses!
Examples of Figurative Language from Bud, Not Buddy
- " The pad lock snapped with the loudest click I'd ever heard" (p.20)
- " In her eyes, Todd's mouth was a prayer book" (p. 12)
- " I swung as hard as I could at Todd's big balloon head" (p.13)
- " I eyed where the bat was sleeping and revved the rake like I was going to hit a four-hundred-foot home run" (p.26)