All three Miss Peregrine books (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, and Library of Souls) are wonderful for teaching figurative language, especially similes and metaphors.
Ransom Riggs creates many things in his novels that do not exist in real life (wights, loops, Devil’s Acre in the third book). I ask my students how they would describe something that is not real, and only exists in their imagination. Ransom Riggs uses several metaphors and similes—he compares his imaginary items to things that we are familiar with. I challenge students to keep track of examples as they read.
Examples from Hollow City:
Metaphor example, pg. 14: “A sea of shattered glass…”
Simile example, pg. 15, “..it was like trying to catch fish with bare hands.”
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