The Book Thief Figurative Language

"More than likely he’d become so bored as the hours crawled by that one day he’d simply forget to breathe."

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“...his mom… came in and found him watching the raindrops chase each other down the glass of his bedroom window.”

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

“I just know I’ll die if I don’t have some fun.  I will!  I’ll die!”

• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It (Rictus’s grin) was wide enough to shame a shark.”

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

You know I heard you sighing a mile off.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You need an adventure, young Swick.  Somewhere… out of this world.”

• idiom
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The wind was still gusting against the glass, as though eager to come back in and carry its passenger away.”

• metaphor
• idiom
• allusion
• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“...the wind carried him off, the balloon of his coat rising like a black moon against the rainy sky.”

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3