Figurative Language in TKAM

"...it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadn't run the Creeks up the creek,..."

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

• Dramatic Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...her hand was wide as a bed and twice as hard."

• Allusion

• Simile

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"... bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies..."

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Allusion

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve."

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"This case is as simple as black and white."

• Dramatic Irony

• Allusion

• Pun

• Metaphor

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."

• Simile

• Pun

• 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

"He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat..."

• Simile

• Idiom

• 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

"... she had an acid tongue in her head ..."

• Allusion

• Pun

• Idiom

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents..."

• Allusion

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3