Figurative Lang TKAM

"Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard." (Ch. 1)

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it." (Ch. 1)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom." (Ch. 1)

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land..."

• hyperbole

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Jem to Scout: "'I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!'"

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"His voice was like the winter wind."

• hyperble

• irony

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"'He's gonna make me some invisible ink, and I'm gonna write to Dill in it.'"

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house."

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3