Idioms Figurative Language:
2. Quote: Like it was a gift? Like you’d given me something important.
Literal Language: He said the book like the gift which is important.
Figurative Language: He want to say that Hazel is a gift and she is important with him
3. Quote: What the hell?
Literal Language: Hazel asks Augustus what problem
Figurative Language: What are you reading?
4. Quote: I’m playing hooky to hang out with Isaac
Literal Language: he goes out with Isaac
Figurative Language: he is visiting Isaac
5. Quote: I will completely screw it up
Literal Language: He will damage it immediately
Figurative Language: He will forget it
6. Quote: that for all the world resembled my dad’s favourite amber ale
Literal Language: for the world that is my father’s favourite wine
Figurative Language: her father loves it very much and it is like the whole world to him
7. Quote: You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parent’ throw pillows
Literal Language: I’m buying hard feelings from my parents’ pillows
Figurative Language: he’s falling in love with it like words of encouragement on a parent’s pillow
8. Quote: they just piss me off sometimes. and i don’t want to be pissed off today
Literal Language: He doesn’t want to be bothered by those things today
Figurative Language: Because this is a special day, he does not want to be upset to destroy this good day
9. Quote: we’d hit the city ready to suck the marrow out of life or whatever.
Literal Language: they come to the city ready to suck the marrow out of life
Figurative Language: they have had enough sleep and are ready to explore the city
10. Quote: an open-air, flat-bottomed boat
Literal Language: an outdoor boat, flat bottom
Figurative Language: boat without a roof and flat bottom.
Figurative Language Meaning:
2. Quote: i was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown
Figurative Language Type: metaphor
Figurative Language: She felt like she was very close to death, she was like being in the middle of life and death
3. Quote: two minimally supervised medical students removed my chest tube, which felt like getting stabbed in reverse
Figurative Language Type: Simile
Figurative Language: removing the two students’ tubes made her very hurt as if she had been stabbed in the opposite direction
4. Quote: the world was a wishing gaiting factory
Figurative Language Type: metaphor
Figurative Language: She believes all her wishes will come true
5. Quote: but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering
Figurative Language Type: metaphor
Figurative Language: She is the happiness of the family but when she dies it will bring great sorrow to her parents
6. Quote: it was already in bed, propped up with a gajillion pillows with my computer on my lap
Figurative Language Type: metaphor
Figurative Language: it was already in bed, propped up with a gajillion pillows with my computer on my lap
7. Quote: it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me
Figurative Language Type: metaphor
Figurative Language: it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me
8. Quote: i must like the swing set of tears immediately
Figurative Language Type: idiom
Figurative Language: he had to watch the swing make Hazel cry
9. Quote: the outline of the seats like a kid’s drawing of a smile
Figurative Language Type: simile
Figurative Language: the seat of the swing shaped like a child’s smile
10. Quote: my lungs felt like they were folding in upon themselves like flowers at dusk
Figurative Language Type: simile
Figurative Language: The lungs shrink like petals in the sunset
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