Personification
47
...it's a very bad idea to leave your lungs behind.
179
two Peas
63
...scrambled up the rock like a lizard.
73
The film crew is threatening to murder her.
pg. 22 "Poof!"
onomatopoeia
118
You can never tell who the mountain will allow and who it will not.
1
...readers are fish.
144
A story is built like a stone wall.
90
...someone is hacking their lungs out.
pg. 80 "rock rat"
alliteration
138
Paranoia feeds on thin air.
34
...the whole orthopedic jigsaw puzzle.
101
...continue up the Rongbuk Glacier like a mountain goat breaking trail.
195
"If he doesn't, your mom will kill me."
213 "Tomorrow morning is your window."
metaphor
185
...the delicious white smoke billowing from the mess tent's chimney was calling to me.
133
They were both stone faced.
139
...single file like ants.
81
...before she causes an avalanche.
224 simile
"It was like trying to climb a ladder with ice skates." OR "...I found myself dangling by the rope like a dead fish."
56
"...the motorcycle belched out a column of gray smoke..." OR "The smoke cannot catch us."
167
Climbing Everest is not a competition. It's life and death.
198
...ice sticking out of the ground like great white shark teeth.
159
"Fifty feet. It might as well have been fifty miles." OR "...precious oxygen. Maybe enough to keep a bird alive."
216 simile
"She looked more like a wax figure than a former human being..."