Figurative Language from All Summer in a Day

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

...days compounded and filled from on end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers...

• smilie

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

...the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

A boom of thunder startled them...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole