Anis a
word or phrase used in a language that has a meaning different from its literal or original
meaning. Slang is one typical type of idiom; another is foreign words incorporated into a
language. Extreme exaggeration () can also create an idiomatic usage of a familiar
term.
The kinds of idioms that appear in the book are those that would be
customarily used by an adolescent boy asis the first-person narrator. The text is his own speech
or what he reports in dialogue with his family and social circle.
Augusts
parents take him to visit his new school during the . When they meet his homeroom teacher, Mrs.
Garcia, he shakes her hand and she comments the firmness of his grip. His father says that he
has a killer handshake. Here killer is used metaphorically to mean extremely powerful, not
that it would literally kill anyone.
When Augusts parents are conversing with
his school principal,, they mention that his older sister will be...
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