Figurative Language in The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

"...as if his mouth was full of biscuits..."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

"...slide his way through the house, making whooshing sounds..."

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

"...cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers, and corn."

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

"Bruno had a pain...he could feel something growing inside him..."

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

"...he'd better not go jumping around this house...or it might collapse..."

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

"...Bruno tried to remember which of those girls was the monster."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

"...as if he was the conductor of a barbershop quartet."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

"...they stood in a row together like toy soldiers..."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

"...we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking."

• metaphor
• idiom
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

"Gretel stared at him as if he had gone mad..."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole