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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"Sometimes Mami’s words are a puzzle." Pg. 5
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"Far off in Puerto Plata, I could see Mount Isabel de Torres, a green giant with misty white curls dancing ‘round her head." p. 27
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"I could see the river, meandering over rocks, hungry for rain." p. 27
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"Our radios are perched like black birds on our porches to warn passersby that someone is at home and to pick up your feet." p. 27
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"He dances like the wind." P. 48
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"He was the blue moon shimmering in the night sky." P. 49
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"Angel’s dark eyes and his long black eyelashes rested themselves like butterflies on my sister and that was that." P. 71
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"I sat very still, feeling Guario’s words touch me like cold rain." P. 74
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"He stood as still as the leaves before a rainstorm." p. 86
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"For five minutes, the words fell around me in places I couldn’t reach." p. 86
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"I was a dark cross below the surface." P. 90
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"And if we didn’t stick together then one dark night those very same questions would eat us up and spit our bones across the sand." P. 92
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"They devoured everything in their paths. …. -- two giant bulldozers with mean, hungry jaws." P. 122
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"I could hear the sun breathing." P. 124
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Is this an example of metaphor, simile, or personification:
"It was the kind of hot where your blouse sticks to your skin and your hair curls heavy down your back like jungle vines." P. 132
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