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Literary Devices First Day Fly

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    Examples of devices in a short story
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  • ...first day of school costume.
    metaphor
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  • ...and at least two inches waterfalling around your ankles...
    metaphor
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  • The crowns of the feet.
    metaphor
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  • And a final practice before a performance...
    metaphor
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  • ...pulling a shirt from the strange plastic cocoon housing three of the most beautiful butterflies ever.
    metaphor
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  • water, like money, don't grow on trees
    simile
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  • ...so if you ain't washing your body, you need to cut the shower off unless you want to see steam turn into smoke...
    metaphor
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  • And everybody moos like cows because they're all immature.
    simile
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  • Can turn wrinkled fabric into something like thinly sliced pieces of wood.
    simile
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  • ...causing it to billow out like the ghosts of wrinkles being set free.
    simile
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  • Denim like a calm lake, not a rolling river, or a sharp iceberg.
    simile
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  • You push a finger through the packaging, puncturing the transparent skin of it...
    metaphor or personification
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  • ...scrubbing the brown crust from your babies...
    metaphor
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  • ...and turned your sneakers into a construction site
    metaphor
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  • Baker got feet like surfoards.
    simile
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  • Your birthday, which is like a millian days away...
    hyperbole
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