"The boys were making their way to the platform through the hot, dumb sand."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he finished."

• Imagery

• mood

• allusion

• Hyperbole

"Won't we look funny if the whole island burns up."

• Foreshadowing

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Plot

"A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

"He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

"The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

"the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

She is an early bird.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

America is a melting pot of cultures.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion