The Book Thief Figures of Speech Review

"The day was gray, the color of Europe."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that look nervous."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"There is murky snow spread out like carpet."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personificiation

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Both he and the paint cans turned around."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Beige colored skin. A swamp in each eye."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The crowd oohed, like human ghouls."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"A small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and chlorine eyes...her hair was a towel of elastic gray strands..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The sound of crying children kicked and punched."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3