All Summer in a Day Figurative Language

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

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

• simile and metaphor

• metaphor and personfication

• personification and hyperbole

• hyperbole and simile

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"It's like a fire," she said, "in the stove."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

...and if she spoke at all, her voice would be a ghost.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The world ground to a standstill.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

It was a nest of octupi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed wavering.

• simile (fleshlike weed)

• metaphor (nest of octupi)

• personification (clustering up great arms)

• ALL OF THE ABOVE

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they [the children] ran and ran...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3