All Summer in a Day Figurative Language

…they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It’s like a penny,” she said once, eyes closed.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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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 fire,” she said, “in the stove.”

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The door slid back and the smell of the silent, waiting world came into them.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on their cheeks like a warm iron…

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The jungle burned with sunlight

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language? "The children pressed together like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3