Show:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
100
"cheekbones like bicycle handles" (pg 3)
100
"She's an old mule on the subject of my schooling" (pg 10)
100
"Grandpa died from a cancer that ate up most of his skin" (pg 4)
100
"And we're all whittled down to the bone these days" (pg 16)
200
"An Ma, with only Great-uncle Floyd, old as ancient indian bones and mean as a rattler" (pg 5)
200
"That is heaven. How supremely heaven playing piano can be" (pg 14)
200
"...on her way to California where the wind takes a rest sometimes" (pg 9)
200
"He hired folks for the repairs, and argued over every nail and every little minute" (pg 18)
300
"Playing notes sharp as tongues" (pg 13)
300
"Leaving behind a sea of dust" (pg 33)
300
"When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me" (pg 13)
300
"I hollered myself red the day I was born" (pg 3)
400
"With a scowl foul as maggoty stew" (pg 28)
400
"Chocolate milk for dinner, aren’t we in clover!" (pg 21)
400
"...wind blew plate-glass windows in, tore electric signs down, ripper wheat..." (pg 20)
400
"They pledged revenge on the rabbit population" (pg 6)
500
"It wasn't until the dust turned toward the house, like a fired locomotive" (pg 32)
500
"...and a hunger for playing fierce piano" (pg 3)
500
"Lightning danced down on its spindly legs" (pg 31)
500
"I couldn't get the muscles in my throat relaxed enough to tell her how much I'd miss her" (pg 9)