Figurative Language - Out of the Dust (Winter 1934)

...cheekbones like bicycle handles.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

...a hunger for playing fierce piano

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

...old as ancient Indian bones...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

...mean as a rattler...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyoerbole

• onomatopoeia

...where the wind takes a rest sometimes.

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

She's an old mule...

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

...slow stirring of biscuits...

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Permission to play at the Palace

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• repetition

...smooth buttery rhythms...

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia