1. Figurative Language Booklet
Ms. Verge

2. “The sky is blue today. Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it’s stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole…”
Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could have given him a weather report like that. On the wall, he painted a long, tightly knotted rope with a dripping yellow sun at the end of it, as if you could dive right into it. On the ropy cloud, he drew two figures-a thin girl and a withering Jew- they were walking, arms balanced, toward the dripping sun”(249).

4. Simile and imagery explained:
Context: This photo shows the sun withering away leading to the dark night. Max too is withering away in the darkness of the basement, yet there is beauty created in the words used by Liesel. The power of her words gives Max joy and inspiration to paint a beautiful scene of their friendship on the basement wall. The author uses the word “dripping” to create the image like a peaceful stream or rainbow melting into the beautiful beyond, faraway from the cruelty evident in war.