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Freak the Mighty's Figurative Language

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  • "...he's mad, mad, mad, hopping mad!!"
    Repetition
  • "...remembering is a great invention of the mind."
    Metaphor
  • "...and the fireworks making a whizzing, popping and banging sound..."
    Onomatopoeia
  • "You mean you couldn't take him, and I was giving him lip?"
    Idiom
  • "...which goes to show how brainless she can be."
    Hyperbole
  • "...first of the rockets is streaking up, up, up..."
    Repetition
  • "Books are like a truth serum."
    Simile
  • "...the rug smells like a low-tide."
    Simile
  • "I'm laughing like a maniac!"
    Simile
  • "You're a splitting image of your old man."
    Idiom
  • "...throwing a hug on me, like it was medicine I needed."
    Simile
  • "He's driving us nuts!"
    Idiom
  • "...the weirdo robot-boy with his white-yellow hair moved into the neighborhood."
    Metaphor
  • "I never had a brain until Freak came along..."
    Hyperboe
  • "...he's exploding out of his shoes!"
    Hyperbole
  • "...the cop car cruising around the pond."
    Alliteration