Identify each figure of speech.

“Time had slowed to a nauseating crawl…” (96)______________________

“Rain rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda…” (8) ______________________

“I liked to smell him: he was like a bottle of alcohol and something pleasantly sweet.” (79) ____________________

“Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.”(94) __________________

“We could do nothing to please her. If I said as sunnily as I could, Hey Mrs. Dubose, I would receive for an answer, don’t you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!”(99)__________________

"Miss Maudie's sunhat was suspended in a thin layer of ice, like a fly in amber, and we had to dig under the dirt for her hedge-clippers". (72)___________________


"Jem scowled, "I ain't gonna do anything to him," but I watched the spark of fresh adventure leave his eyes." (72)________________________



"You've got us in a box, Jem," I muttered. "We can't get out of here so easy." (52)__________________________


"The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran with the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors. Instead of a column, a rough two-by-four supported one end of the roof. An old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch; above it a hat-rack mirror caught the moon and shone eerily." (52)_____________________________


"Jem waved at me as if fanning gnats." (58)_______________________

‘A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.” (5)__________________________

Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother’s education. (5)______________________________

"On the day he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs" (67)____________________________

''When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon'' (22)___________________________

“He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie’s goat.” _________________________

“That boys yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?” (24)_____________________________

“ain’t no snow-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born c’n make me do nothin’! You ain’t makin’ me go nowhere missus. You just remember that…” (28)___________________________

“She had put so much starch in my dress it came up like a tent when I sat down.” (117)_________________________

“Revered Sykes closed his sermon.” (122)_________________________

To Kill a Mockingbird Figurative Language

Write down the definition of each language term used in To Kill a Mockingbird.

1. Personification: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Simile: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Metaphor: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Diction: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Dialect: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Euphemism: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Static Character: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. Dynamic Character: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________