Figurative Language in Out of the Dust

"cheekbones like bicycle handles"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

"... Great -Uncle Floyd, old as ancient Indian bones, and mean as a rattler

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

"Permission to play at the palace ..."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

"How supremely heaven playing piano can be ..."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

"The potatoes are peppered plenty tonight, Polly..."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

"The night sky kept flashing lightning danced down on its spindly legs..."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

"... the dust turned toward the house like a fired locomotive"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

"... the dust hissed against the windows"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration