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

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

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

“It’s like fire,” she said, “in the stove.”

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

The jungle burned with sunlight

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia