To Kill a Mockingbird- figurative language
Anjalee Sadwani
English Coburn P.3.
Figurative language of To Kill A Mockingbird, book one
Figurative language
Chapter 1
Personification: "May comb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it" (5).
"...and the house was still" (15).
Metaphor: "She was all angles and bones..." (6)
"Mrs. Dubose was plain hell" (6).
" Dill was a curiosity" (7).
" Mr Radley's posture was ramrod straight" (12).
Hyperbole: "...the meanest man God ever blew breath into" (12).
Simile: "Her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard" (6).
Personification-"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when i first knew it" (pg5)
Simile-"...and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting of sweat and sweet talcum"(pg5)
Metaphor-"MrsDubose was plain hell"(pg6)
"Inside the house lived a malevolent Phantom"(pg8)
Hyperbole-"...That's why his hands were blood stained-if you ate an animal raw you could never wash the blood off"(pg13)
Chapter 2
by Minjung
Simile - " She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. " (p16)
" By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. " (p16)
Hyperbole - " A storm of laughter broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that Miss caroline had whipped me. " (p22)
Personification - " Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light. "(p19)
" I saw a muscle jump in his skinny jaw. " (p19)
Onomatopoeia - " I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pockets. " (p16)
Metaphor - "She was a pretty little thing." (p22)
Visual Imagery - ", following Jem's RedJacket"
Page 16 “She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop”
Simile
Page 17 “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us, dear”
Personification
Page 19 “Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light”
Personification
Page 22 “If I hear
English Coburn P.3.
Figurative language of To Kill A Mockingbird, book one
Figurative language
Chapter 1
Personification: "May comb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it" (5).
"...and the house was still" (15).
Metaphor: "She was all angles and bones..." (6)
"Mrs. Dubose was plain hell" (6).
" Dill was a curiosity" (7).
" Mr Radley's posture was ramrod straight" (12).
Hyperbole: "...the meanest man God ever blew breath into" (12).
Simile: "Her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard" (6).
Personification-"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when i first knew it" (pg5)
Simile-"...and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting of sweat and sweet talcum"(pg5)
Metaphor-"MrsDubose was plain hell"(pg6)
"Inside the house lived a malevolent Phantom"(pg8)
Hyperbole-"...That's why his hands were blood stained-if you ate an animal raw you could never wash the blood off"(pg13)
Chapter 2
by Minjung
Simile - " She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. " (p16)
" By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. " (p16)
Hyperbole - " A storm of laughter broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that Miss caroline had whipped me. " (p22)
Personification - " Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light. "(p19)
" I saw a muscle jump in his skinny jaw. " (p19)
Onomatopoeia - " I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pockets. " (p16)
Metaphor - "She was a pretty little thing." (p22)
Visual Imagery - ", following Jem's RedJacket"
Page 16 “She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop”
Simile
Page 17 “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us, dear”
Personification
Page 19 “Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light”
Personification
Page 22 “If I hear