Maze Runner Figurative Language

With another jolt, the room jerked upward like an old lift in a mine shaft. -pg 1

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

But tonight, the Gladers ate like dead men resurrected for one last meal before being sent to live with the devils”

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

“The more he thought about it, being a Runner didn’t sound like such a great idea.But, inexplicably, it still called to him.”

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

“Zart was the tall, black-haired kid who’d stood at the front of the pole during Ben's banishment, and who for some odd reason smelled like sour milk."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

"He scanned the compound of the Glade, this new place of nightmares where he seemed destined to live."

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

...as if even the sun had been frightened away by what lurked in the Maze...

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

The walls slammed shut behind him, and the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-colored stone like mad laughter

• idiom

• simile

• anthropomorphism

• alliteration

Thomas looked toward the voice, surprised to see Alby standing at the edge of the graveyard, a mere phantom in the fading light

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Thomas felt his blood turn to icy slush as he realized that the horrible sound came from the wooden building.

• allusion

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

Minho was dragging a cardboard box across the floor, the scrape of it sounded like a knife on bone.

• allusion

• oxymoron

• simile

• hyperbole