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Similes and Metaphors

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Simile Poem Metaphor poem

A day in the life and home of a child in a informal settlement

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“Get up, get up now or else your going to be late for school.” These are the words I hear almost everyday and I hate them. I have to get up early to get dressed for school, sometimes I can have breakfast but that is only if my mom gets a raise or bonus. I have to deal with the hunger at school if I don’t get breakfast though, because walking to school really sucks the energy out of you, walking for a whole 45 minutes through the dirty and muddy road is such a pain! When you get there you have to go straight to class, I am always late because of the extremely long walk and I can’t wake up earlier because then I will be too tired to even get up.Some kids call me lazy, but trust me you will need all the energy you can get just so you can walk to school and back! When school starts I have to focus like a hawk, never taking my eyes off the dusty chalkboard my teachers use. There’s so much noise I can’t even hear my own thoughts that is the problem of being in a class of sixty five children...

An awful visit

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My name is Jesse. And yesterday was a day of pain and suffering. I always thought school was for learning, not for being jawed at. I was at my desk waiting for the day to start, the teachers looked nervous and some of the children too and I didn’t know why. Then I remembered that the singing inspector was coming to our school today! When he arrived I noticed he had huge knickerbockers, much bigger then my dad’s, he had this red face. All puffed up. He was the full package alright. He even stared at you with his gooseberry eyes. I already hated it. He went ahead and put us in the big room, where we did singing. He made us do singing exercises, and then it was time to sing. He didn’t bring the little kids or the big kids along. Probably because the little kids were to young and the big kids only do exams. Oh how I wish to be them now. He asked Charles and Benny to sing first, but they don’t know any songs, we all know that. But they surprised me when Charles said they could sing Pret...