TKAM Figurative Language

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by night fall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and talcum.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon was expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from the Time magazine and reading everything I could lay my hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Punk, punk, punk, her needle broke the taut circle. She stopped and pulled the cloth tighter: punk-punk-punk. She was furious.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Two geological year later, we heard the soles of Atticus's shoes scrape the front steps.

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3