Figurative Language from All Summer in a Day

The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

...days compounded and filled from on end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers...

• smilie

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

...the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

...they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I think the sun is a flower. that blooms for just one hour.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A boom of thunder startled them...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3