THE BOOK THIEF ~ PART FIVE ~ Figurative Language

"The surrounding air was a lovely, gorgeous, nauseating cold, not to mention the concrete ache of the water, thickening from his toes to his hips" (241)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• imagery

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT RUDY STEINER

He didn't deserve to die the way he did " (241)

• Foreshadowing

• verbal irony

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• juxtaposition

Mystery bores me. It chores me (243)

• Foreshadowing

• verbal irony

• oxymoron

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

" As she cut the feathery strands, she wondered at the sound of the scissors. Not the snipping noise, but the grinding of each metal arm as it cropped each group of fibers (245).

• Foreshadowing

• alliteration

• imagery

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

" When the job was done, a little severe in places, a little crooked in others, she walked upstairs with the hair in her hands and fed it into the stove (245).

• Foreshadowing

• alliteration

• imagery

• allusion

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

" She lit a match and watched as the clump shriveled and sank, orange and red.

• Foreshadowing

• alliteration

• imagery

• allusion

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"As the book quivered in her lap, the secret sat in her mouth" (246).

• Personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• allusion

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The town that afternoon was covered in a yellow mist, which stroked the rooftops as if they were pets and filled up the streets like a bath" (247).

• Personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..."

• Personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"It was a Monday, and they walked on a tightrope to the sun" (249)

• Personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4