Figurative Language in Tom Sawyer

"Huck said to Tom, 'Well, I'll come around and maow to-night.'" (146)

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"'Dream! If them stairs hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how much dream it was! I've had dreams enough all night -- with that patch-eyed Spanish devil going for me all through 'em -- rot him!'" (158)

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley. Then there was a season of waiting anxiety that weighed upon Huck's spirits like a mountain." (161)

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

"Then they were astonished to find that they had been taking no note of time and that night was about at hand. The clanging bell had been calling for half an hour." (167)

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expance of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck." (30)

• metaphor

• onomatopoiea

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"The next instant he was out, and 'going on' like an Indian; yelling, laughing, chasing boys, jumping over the fence at risk of life and limb, throwing handsprings, standing on his head -- dpoing all the heroic things he could conceive of, and keeping a furtive eye out, all the while, to see if Becky Thatcher was noticing." (80)

• metaphor

• onomatopoiea

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3