Tuck Everlasting: Figurative Language

"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

"In fact, he seemed supremely nice to her now, a kind of savior."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"A bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"Just go out, like the flame of a candle..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"...Winnie tipped the water onto the cracked earth at the gate. It sucked it in immediately..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all coming running like pigs to slops."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personfication

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3