Figurative Language
"I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took me to the ER." (Page 262) (Personification)
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"The sun was like a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light." (Page 167) (Simile)
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"...I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, kid." (Page 225)
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" 'We bottled the stars this evening, my young friends.' " (Page 163)
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"I screamed to wake up my parents, and they burst into my room, but there was nothing they could do to dim the supernova exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intracranial firecrackers..." (Page 105)
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"You'll live forever in our hearts, big man." (Page 264)
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"I fear oblivion, I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark." (Page 12)
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"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations." (Page 311)
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"His brain is Swiss Cheese." (Page 195)
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"So while I waited for them to turn around and find us, I recited the only poem I could bring to mind, 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams." (Page 246)
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