Figurative Language in the Novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

"Everything felt cool as if she was in the middle of nowhere.”

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The noise of a door slamming came from downstairs and

reverberated through the house loudly—like a gunshot—

that Bruno jumped and Maria let out a small scream

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Similar

• Metaphor

He felt as if he was about to cry again but stopped himself, not wanting to look like a baby in front of Maria.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

When Bruno describes Lieutenant Kotler's hair on a Saturday: "his hair flopped down over his forehead in exhaustion."

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Personification

As they [the Nazi soldiers] left they stood in a row together like toy soldiers

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

They had no time to stop, not today, not when they had a hundred and one things to do

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

I might bleed to death.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

“ ‘I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience,’ he added.”

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

“The dolls had eyes that followed me around”

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

He lost his grip of the bottle somehow and it fell crashing, glug-glug-glugging its contents out directly onto the young man’s lap,”

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Assonance