All Summer in a Day Figurative Language

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

2. "...with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

3. "...and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the whole world with.."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

4. "She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

5. "All yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon is was..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

6. "She was an old photograph dusted from an album..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

8. "they heard the gigantic sound of rain falling in tons and avalanches..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

8. "they heard the gigantic sound of rain falling in tons and avalanches..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5