"When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice cream."
What is a simile?
100
"The streets were ruptured veins."
What is the street and veins?
100
"The girl had more immediate fish to fry."
The girl had more important things to do/worry about.
100
"The dynamic train guard duo made their way back to the mother, the girl, and the small male corpse."
What is literal?
200
Language that is not literal and is used to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is figurative language?
200
"The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring."
What is a simile?
200
"There was more silence than she ever thought possible. It extended like an elastic, dying to break."
What is silence and elastic?
200
"The train galloped on."
The train continued to move quickly toward its destination.
200
"Tears were frozen to the book thief's face."
What is literal?
300
Giving human qualities to a thing, animal, or idea.
What is personification?
300
"After a small collection of minutes, the smoke exhausted itself. There was nothing left to give."
What is personification?
300
"When the plane crashed, three deep gashes were made in the earth. Its wings were now sawn-off arms. No more flapping. Not for this metallic little bird."
What is a a plane and a bird?
300
"Trees wore blankets of ice."
The trees were covered in ice.
300
"The world was sagging now, under the weight of all that snow."
What is figurative?
400
A comparison between two unlike things that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
400
"I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hears. They have beaten lungs."
What is a metaphor?
400
"Bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after a flood."
What are bodies and driftwood?
400
"Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't-
Within seconds, snow was carved into her skin."
After digging for a few seconds, the hard snow cut Liesel's skin.
400
"The train galloped on."
What is figurative?
500
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
500
"The plane was coughing. Smoke was leaking from its lungs."
What is personification?
500
"Trees wore blankets of ice."
What are trees and a human?
500
"I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity."
Death continued to collect souls; this perpetuated the natural cycle of life and death. (People are constantly dying).
500
"Apart from everything else, the book thief wanted desperately to go back to the basement, to write, or to read through her story one last time."