All Summer in a Day - Figurative Language

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

…they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

…they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. (They are dreaming of the sun.)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests…

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests…

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

All-day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel...

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3