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Title: Figurative Language in To Kill a Mockingbird


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Figurative Language in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Personification
  • Mr. Radleys older son lived in Pensacola he
    came home at Christmas, and he was one of the few
    people we ever saw enter or leave the place. From
    the day Mr. Radley took Arthur home, people say
    the house died (Lee 12).

3
Personification
  • The house was the same, droopy and sick, but as
    we stared down the street we thought we saw an
    inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost
    invisible movement and the house was still (Lee
    15).

4
Personification
  • There he was, returning to me. His white shirt
    bobbed over the back fence and slowly grew
    larger. He came up the back steps, latched the
    door behind him, and sat on his cot (Lee 55).

5
Metaphor
  • Then I heard Atticus cough. I held my breath.
    Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to
    the bathroom we would find him reading (Lee 57).

6
Metaphor
  • I had never thought about it, but summer was
    Dill by the fish pool smoking string, Dills eyes
    alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley
    emerge summer was the swiftness with which Dill
    would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not
    looking(Lee 116).

7
Metaphor
  • I knew when there was trouble in our street.
    Soft taffeta-like sounds and muffled scurrying
    sounds filled me with helpless dread (Lee 69).

8
Simile
  • The Radley place fascinated Dill. In spite of
    our warnings it drew him as the moon draws
    water (Lee 8).

9
Simile
  • Ladies bathed before noon, after their
    three-oclock naps, and by nightfall were like
    soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet
    talcum (Lee 6).

10
Simile
  • It must have been two oclock. The moon was
    setting and the lattice-work shadows were fading
    into fuzzy nothingness. Jems white shirt-tail
    dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away
    to escape the coming morning (Lee 57).

11
What did she use here?
  • Auntie said I should be a ray of sunshine in
    my fathers lonely life. I suggested that one
    could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well,
    but Aunty said that one had to behave like a
    sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown
    progressively worse every year (Lee 81).

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What did she use here?
  • the fruits of their industry (those that were
    not eaten) made the plot of ground around the
    cabin look like the playhouse of an insane
    child (Lee 170).

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What did she use here?
  • the business part of the meeting was
    blood-curdling, the social hour was drearyShe
    said no more. When Miss Maudie was angry her
    brevity was icy. Something had made her deeply
    angry, and her gray eyes were as cold as her
    voice (Lee 233).

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Create your own!
  • You will take five word cards from the box.
  • Once you have these, you can arrange and
    rearrange them in any order you want to.
  • You will fill in the words that go between the
    cards.
  • Create at least one metaphor, one simile and one
    example of personification. You may use all, or
    some of the words. The more you use, the more
    interesting it will be.
  • Write them down.

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Example
Secret
Tiger
Frown
Thunder
Games
The tiger secretly frowned as the games
thundered on.
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