6th Grade Figurative language
Master 6th-grade figurative language: simile, metaphor, and more!
For each question below, choose the correct type of figurative language.The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds,... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia ...the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world,... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot. Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia They always awoke to the tatting drum,... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia I think the sun is a flower,That blooms for just one hour. Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away,... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether. Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia The door slid back and the smell of the silent, waiting world came in to them. Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia ...turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on their cheeks like awarm iron... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia A boom of thunder startled them... Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia In the following quote, the children are really dreaming about what? "...they were dreaming and remembering goldor a yellow crayonor a coin large enough to buy the world with. " The rain Storms A crayon The sun Venus In the following quote, the "clear bead necklaces" refers to... "They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, ..." the sun the rain the roof the drums