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“Tears pricked in her eyes as she flipped through the cheaply made programs” (Flowers 225).
Metaphor (tears → pricked)
No simile (As means while here – not a comparison.)
“She pressed her face against the screen, cupping her hands around her eyes to see inside” (Flowers 134).
Metaphor (hands → cups)
“Then she stood very still…her heart hammering in her chest” (Flowers 150).
Metaphor (heart → hammering)
Alliteration (stood, still; her, heart, hammering)
“…he’d taken her to hit Coke cans in an empty field” (Flowers 257).
Alliteration (he’d, her, hit; Coke, cans)
“The room at the Hillside Inn was closing around her, its blandly painted walls shrinking” (Flowers 125).
Metaphor (room → closing)
Metaphor (walls → shrinking)
“Margot recognized her as the auburn-haired woman she’d first seen outside Shorty’s, a few days ago and a lifetime ago” (Flowers 262).
Hyperbole (a lifetime ago)
Alliteration (she’d, Shorty’s)
Word Repetition (ago)
“Pete slapped his palms onto his knees…” (Flowers 124).
Alliteration (Pete, palms)
“Margot heard the hum of a car’s engine off in the distance” (Flowers 259).
Alliteration (heard, hum)
Onomatopoeia (hum)
Personification (hum → car’s engine)
“In some dark part of her brain…” (Flowers 254).
Metaphor (dark part → brain)
“On the day it all slipped through her fingers, Krissy got up to the sound of her alarm at 5 A.M…” (Flowers 4).
Idiom (slipped through her fingers)
“By the time she got home, it was dusk, the overcast sky a gunmetal gray” (Flowers 250).
Metaphor (sky → gunmetal gray)
Metaphor (gunmetal → gray)
“She had the feeling of being followed…but it was the only the truth that was hounding her now” (Flowers 251).
Alliteration (feeling, followed; hounding, her)
Metaphor (truth → hound)
“…she recognized the faintest trace of recollection in his eyes, as if she’d reminded him of a long-buried memory” (Flowers 256).
Metaphor (trace → recollection)
Metaphor (she → long-buried memory)
Metaphor (buried → memory)
Alliteration (recognized, recollection, reminded)
“The man’s face, which had once looked so familiar to her, now looked like that of a stranger…” (Flowers 254).
Simile (man’s face → that [the face] of a stranger)
Alliteration (looked, like; face, familiar)
“The blue velveteen sleeve was of her robe was still balled in his fist…” (Flowers 125).
Metaphor (sleeve → velveteen [like velvet])
Metaphor (sleeve → ball)
“…and then there was nothing but blinding white” (Flowers 254).
Alliteration (then, there)
Personification (blinding → white)
“But now, all those accumulated tears poured out of her” (Flowers 259).
Metaphor (accumulated → tears)
Metaphor (tears → poured)
Hyperbole (tears poured out of her)
“She inhaled a shaky breath and scribbled a short note instead” (Flowers 252).
Metaphor (shaky → breath)
Alliteration (she, shaky, short)
Metaphor (short → note)
“She contracted, as if she’d been kicked in the gut, and buried her face in her trembling hands” (Flowers 259).
Idiom (kicked in the gut)
Simile ([the way she] contracted → kicked in the gut)
Metaphor (buried → face)
“If everything Jace had told her in his letter had flipped Krissy’s world upside-down, Dave had just exploded it wide open” (Flowers 251).
Metaphor (world → [something that can be] flipped upside-down)
Hyperbole (Dave exploded it [the world] wide open)
She slipped the letter into her purse where it stuck out like a white flag of surrender” (Flowers 252).
Simile (it [the letter] → white flag)
Metaphor (white flag → surrender)
Symbol (white flag)
“The look of confusion on her uncle’s face cleared, as if a light had gone on in his head” (Flowers 257).
Simile ([Clearing of] the look of confusion → light)
Metaphor (light → head)
Idiom (light had gone on in his head)
“…I gave you a stupid, red bandana for Christmas one year when I was, like, five” (Flowers 256-257).
Personification (stupid → bandana)
Alliteration (when, was)
No simile (Like is not used in comparison here.)
A: “It felt as if a firecracker had erupted in her chest and was shooting sparks throughout her bloodstream” (Flowers 255).
Personification (firecracker → shooting)
Metaphor (shooting → sparks)
Hyperbole (firecracker had erupted in her chest and was shooting sparks throughout her bloodstream)
B: “It felt as if a firecracker had erupted in her chest and was shooting sparks throughout her bloodstream” (Flowers 255).
Alliteration (felt, firecracker)
Simile (it → eruption of a firecracker)
Metaphor (firecracker → erupted)
Metaphor (blood → stream)