Figurative Language 2024

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Across
  1. 2. He wants to be her Romeo.
  2. 4. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.
  3. 7. Mercutio tells his buddies it's only a scratch, when he's been mortally wounded by a sword.
  4. 10. "Wall Street" actually refers to the stock market.
  5. 12. My bed was calling my name.
  6. 13. You look yummy!
  7. 14. Please pass the pretty peaches, Paul.
  8. 16. In Cinderella, the prince doesn't know that the girl who owns the glass slipper is actually Cinderella, a poor girl who is almost a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters.
  9. 18. She is as graceful as a butterfly.
  10. 19. She waited an eternity for the final bell to end class.
Down
  1. 1. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
  2. 3. The Mom tells the paratrooper to be safe.
  3. 5. Oh stars, shine your light on her face.
  4. 6. fallacy The tree waved to me.
  5. 8. Jumbo shrimp.
  6. 9. Ten thousand eyes watched the gymnast on the balance beam.
  7. 11. "There weren't any more scraping noises, but he was sure he had heard something in the darkness—something breathing!”
  8. 15. In Disney’s Ratatouille, the very idea of having a rat in a kitchen is disgusting, so making a movie about a rat who happens to be a master chef is _____.
  9. 17. The woman is an angel.