Read It On your own, identify each type of figurative language from "With a little
Help From My Friends." Then, share your work with your group.
EFFECT
EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT
TYPE OF FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
My life became one long-running Oprah
show, minus the free luxury accommodations
in Chicago, and Oprah. (paragraph 1)
I tried my best to be a worthy representative
of my homeland, but, like a Hollywood
celebrity relentlessly pursued by paparazzi,
I sometimes got tired of the questions.
(paragraph 9)
This avalanche of kindness did not make
our impending departure any easier.
(paragraph 16)
If someone had been able to encapsulate
the kindness of these second-graders in
pill form, the pills would undoubtedly put
many war correspondents out of business.
paragraph 15)