1. Figurative Language

2. Metaphor describes something as something else that seems unrelated Purpose: it shows us what these two things have in common. Example: “A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face…” (51)

3. Simile compares two things using “like” or “as” Example: “…as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress…” (76)

4. Personification gives human qualities to inanimate things Example: “As my taxi groaned away…” (81)

5. “A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags…” p. 8)

6. A figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars” (p. 20).

7. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon” (p.93)

8. …this fifth guest’s shrill metallic urgency…” (p. 15)

9. “Your place looks like the World’s Fair” (p. 81).

10. “This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills…” (p. 23)

11. Review

12. “A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril” (69).

13. Personification

14. “as drunk as a monkey” (76)

15. simile

16. “…the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut…” (74)

17. personification

18. “flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near “ 62

19. simile

20. :lived like a young rajah” (65

21. simile

22. “the world and its mistress 61

23. Personification