What figurative language is this: "Jasmine stared into TJ's nose like she was peering through a brown microscope of flesh" (Reynolds 3).

What figurative language is this: "TJ always asked Mrs. Bronson, the choir director, to let him sing solos even though his voice was all over the place. [It was] a set of windchimes in a hurricane" (Reynolds 6).

What figurative language is this: "TJ wore satisfaction on his face like good lotion" (Reynolds 7)

What figurative language is this: "Just a really uncomfortable conversation at the kitchen table with her folks looking at her like she was an exotic fish in a sandwich bag, darting back and forth" (Reynolds 8)

What figurative language is this: "Her hands and feet swelled like plastic gloves full of water, heavy and tight, ready to burst" (Reynolds 9)

What figurative language is this: "...where every house looked like the last house, like a choir of homes dressed in the same robes, turned the same way, singing the same melody in the same key, which makes for a boring, boring song" (Reynolds 11).

What figurative language is this: "The sound of the bell ringing, signaling the end of the day, might have been a starter pistol or an air horn" (Reynolds 22).

What figurative language is this: "...some boy in a uniform holding a broken skateboard across his lap like a hurt dog" (Reynolds 23)

What figurative language is this: "Buses, both public and school, grumbling..." (Reynolds 26)

What figurative language is this: "...and rang the doorbell, which chimed a melodic yawn, like an old man just waking up" (Reynolds 28)

What figurative language is this: "The smoke that came out screaming every time the door opened" (Reynolds 35)

What figurative language is this: "They'd walked into a bingo hall once and heard [Bit] tell an old lady that he was her troll doll, the only good luck charm she'd ever need" (Reynolds 35)

What figurative language is this: "Stevie was a sweater, so he always took his blazer off during class to avoid becoming a washcloth, something to wring out" (Reynolds 47).

What figurative language is this: "It sounded like the two women were whispering in a tornado" (Reynolds 53).

What figurative language is this: "He held [the cracked halves of the skateboard] like he was holding a broken heart" (Reynolds 56).

What figurative language is this: "Eyes up, which is why Fatima tripped on one of the six big cracks where the sidewalk split-- a lightning bolt of separation" (Reynolds 66).

What figurative language is this: "A boy who sat in the seat with the window up, thick ropes of hair sprouting from his head like antennae" (Reynolds 67).