Figurative Language in The Giver

Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

In his agony he perceived the word "fire" and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh. He tried to move, and could not. The pain grew.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always brought a sense of what-could-we-have-done.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomonopia

• Idiom

Lily considered, and shook her head. “I don’t know. They acted like . . . like ...” “Animals?” Jonas suggested. He laughed.

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

''I'm starving."

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

“Yes,” Asher called back, laughing. “It jumps out of my hand onto the ground!” Asher had just dropped it once again.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

None of his senses confirmed it. He saw nothing ahead except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

He could see a bright, whirling torrent of crystals in the air around him, and he could see them gather on the backs of his hands, like cold fur.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill....

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

"Blam! You're in my line of ambush, Jonas! Watch out!"

• Onomonopia

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Imagery