All Summer in a Day Figurative Language

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Which literary device compares two things, but DOES NOT use the words like or as?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Which literary device gives human characteristics to an animal or an object?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Why did the author use so much figurative language when speaking about the weather?

• to show it was raining that day

• to emphasize how much rain came down constantly

• to show it was sunny on Venus

• to explain where the teacher went

Which literary device is a word that imitates a sound?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Which literary device uses repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words/group of words?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification