The Boy in Striped Pyjamas Literary Devices

"Everything felt cool as if she was in the middle of nowhere.”

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The noise of a door slamming came from downstairs and

reverberated through the house loudly—like a gunshot—

that Bruno jumped and Maria let out a small scream

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Similar

• Metaphor

He felt as if he was about to cry again but stopped himself, not wanting to look like a baby in front of Maria.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Assonance

When Bruno describes Lieutenant Kotler's hair on a Saturday: "his hair flopped down over his forehead in exhaustion."

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Personification

...a garden...a large one...full of flowers...in

neat orderly sections. ...soil that looked as if it was tended very carefully

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Sibilance

As they [the Nazi soldiers] left they stood in a row together like toy soldiers

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

They had no time to stop, not today, not when they had a hundred and one things to do

• Hyperbole

• Exaggeration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

I might bleed to death.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphot

Bruno demonstrates that he doesn't understand Shmuel's situation when he says, "It's so unfair...I don't see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends and are probably playing for hours every day"

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Extended metaphor

“ ‘I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience,’ he added.”

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile