"All Summer in a Day" Figurative Language

"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun."

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Oh, but, Margot whispered, her eyes helpless…"

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first gone wrong with the sound apparatus…"

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"…they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with"

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"They always awoke to the tatting drum …"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I think the sun is a flower

That blooms for just one hour."

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5