Figurative Language in Out of the Dust

...or blow away, like bits of cast-off rags.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

It wasn't until the dust turned toward the house, like a fired locomotive...

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

...the dust hissed against the windows...

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

I look at Joe and know our future is drying up

and blowing away with the dust.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

...her anger,

simmering over like a pot in an empty kitchen...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

...cheekbones like bicycle handles.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

...so tart,

would turn my mouth inside out...

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The following line is an example of:

"...all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown, crumbly dust of late summer—arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet."

• symbolism

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The following line is an example of:

"The boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards."

• symbolism

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The following line is an example of (Pick 2):

But old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs, and so when we sighted the tumbledown shack, we had to stop to reinforce our nerves.

• symbolism

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5