Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Figurative Language

Here it is Saturday morning and they're [the Logan kids] quiet as church mice. (p.54)

• personification

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

Our faces were eager question marks. (p.55)

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Stacey tore across the Wallace yard and, leaping high like a forest fox, fell upon T.J., knocking him down. (p.64)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• personification

He [Paul Edward Logan] had himself a mind like a steel trap. (p.68)

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• idiom

A cold wind rose, biting through my jacket, and I shivered. (p.72)

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

... he [T.J.] was fully awake and chattering like a cockatoo. (p.78)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

...the stores gave way to houses still sleeping... (p.79)

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

... Stacey slowly slid aside the plank of wood...

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

I hope he [Uncle Hammer] knocks his [Mr. Simms's] block off. p. 94

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

When I rejoined Mama she was combing her hair, which fanned her head like an enormous black halo. (p.98)

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole