The Book Thief Figures of Speech Review

"The day was gray, the color of Europe."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

“The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that look nervous."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"There is murky snow spread out like carpet."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personificiation

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Both he and the paint cans turned around."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Beige colored skin. A swamp in each eye."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The crowd oohed, like human ghouls."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"A small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and chlorine eyes...her hair was a towel of elastic gray strands..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The sound of crying children kicked and punched."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4