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Figurative Language Review

All Summer in a Day
Directions Identify which type of figurative language is used in the following
quotes from the story. Underline the KEY WORDS that PROVE the
figurative language.
1. The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds,
2. The sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world
3. She knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow
crayon
4. Coin large enough to buy the world with.
5. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum of the rain.
6. All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like
a lemon it was.
7. I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour
8. They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes.
9. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain
for years
10.
the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from
her mouth and the yellow from her hair.
11.

She was an old photograph dusted from an album.

12.

If she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost

13.
The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five
years ago from Earth
14.

"Its like a penny," she said once, eyes closed.

15.

"Its like a fire," she said, "in the stove."

16.

They hated her pale snow face.

17. They hated her waiting silence.