Figurative language stories #6
task c: modify figurative language
party in room 302
in task a. you found 4 instances of figurative language in the story.
choose any 5 of the 14 instances of figurative language and rewrite
them using the table below. if you choose a simile, you must write a new
simile. do not change one form of figurative language to another. there
are two examples in the table to you.
figurative
language
original
(from the story)
new
(my own)
having a blast
idiom
having a whale of a time
hyperbole
the room was so quiet that
you could hear a pin drop
the room was so quiet that
you could hear your own
organs working

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