Unit 8D | Part 2A: Introducing Figurative Language | 7
Metaphor: “I had become a shining star, a burning nova / Exploded with
love / Flying through an endlessly / Expanding universe.”
(Modern Day Romeo and Juliet Archive, Excerpt: Street Love, 58–61)
Simile: “But we had begun stopping at corners and looking around, and
the wind had become like a good Swiss knife: it cut through everything with
sharp precision.”
(Modern Day Romeo and Juliet Archive, Excerpt: Two Suns in the Sky, 20)
Personification: “Mama’s fingers rejoiced in the untangling of knots.”
(Modern Day Romeo and Juliet Archive, Excerpt: Two Suns in the Sky, 3)
Examples from the text: