Night Figurative Language

“My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams…”

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

“Physically, he was as awkward as a clown. His waiflike shyness made people smile.”

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

• personification

“The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.”

• irony

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

“Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun.”

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

“Monday went by like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn.”

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

• personification

“At every step, white signs with black skull looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?”

• idiom

• irony

• metaphor

• simile

“...he was judged too humane. The new one was ferocious and his aides were veritable monsters."

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

“Jealousy devoured us, consumed us.”

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

“The old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures.”

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• imagery

“I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated body that was still such a weight.”

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

• imagery