Identify the figurative language in “Marigolds”? Literary terms with definitions have been provided for your support!

Simile – comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Imagery – using sensory details to create a visual for the reader

Metaphor – comparison of two unlike things not using “like or “as”

Personification – giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects

1. “Poverty was the cage in which we all were trapped.”

2. “The half-dawn light was more eerie than complete darkness, and in it the old house was like the ruin that my world had become.”

3. "My father whittled toys for us, and laughed so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with him."

4. “Dust the brown, crumbly dust of late summer arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet”

5. “Dust the brown, crumbly dust of late summer arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.”

6. “My father, who was the rock in which this family had been built.”

7. "Everything was suddenly out of tune like a broken accordion."

8. “a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust Miss Lottie’s marigolds”

9. “Long after the sobbing and humming I lay on the pallet still as stone.”

10. “My mother's voice was like a cold, dark room in summer." (Can you identify more than one?)