TKAM Figurative Language

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Simile

Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

• Simile

• Personification

• Anaphora

• Euphamism

The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to to do it in the presence of three witnesses....

• Euphamism

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

The Radley's Place fascinated Dill. In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water.

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Anaphora

• Simile

"...You never really understand a man until you consider things from his point of view..." "...Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it..."

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Simile

Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.

• Personification

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Anaphora

She loved everything that grew in God's earth, even the weeds. With one exception. If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne

• Pun

• Euphamism

• Simile

• Metaphor

Jem's white shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away to escape the coming morning.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

...On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Synecedoche

• Onomatopoeia