| “Ladies…were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” | – Simile |
| “The fire silently devoured Miss Maudie’s house.” | – Personification |
| “Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light.” | – Personification |
| “…the class was wriggling like a bucketful of Catawba worms.” | – simile |
| “No child, this is a sad house.” | – Personification |
| “She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.” | – simile |
| “…courage is a man with a gun in his hand.” | metaphor |
| “A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer.” | hyperbole |
| “Jem’s shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away to escape the coming morning.” | – simile |
| ”Summer…was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree-house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.” | metaphor |
| “Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.” | – personification |
| Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us dear. | – personification |
| “…the corner of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin.” | – simile |
| “Two geological ages later, we heard the soles of Atticus’s shoes scrape the front steps.” | – hyperbole |
| “It was mighty dark out there, black as ink.” | – simile |
| “She had put so much starch in my dress it came up like a tent.” | – simile |
| ”Your name’s longer’n you are. Bet it’s a foot longer.” | – personification, hyperbole |
| “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.” | – personification |
| “Jem gulped like a goldfish.” | – simile |
| “The gold collar button and the tips of his pen and pencil winking in the light.” | – personification |
| (snow on the ground) “Atticus, the world is coming to an end, please do something!” | – hyperbole |
To Kill A Mockingbird (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole)
January 31, 2020