Figurative Language about the Book Thief

Figuramative Language  (Figurative Language)

Lots of figuratively every where in the Book Thief.  If you look really hard you can probably find an example of every type of figurative language.  Heres a few for ya.

1. Double Epithet-  "You Dummkopf- you Idiot."(Zusak, 78).( This is what the kids in her school were calling when she couldn't read a word.  And for some reason the book she wanted to read a book called "The Grave Diggers Handbook".  I'm not sure what she needed that for...

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    2.Metaphor-"A Girl Made of Darkness"(Zusak, 83).  This is the title of one of the chapters in The           Book Thief.  Obviously the girl is not made out of darkness, I think. But if this was a simile it                 would have like or as in it, so its a metaphor.

METAPHORS

    3.Personification-"Dead Letters"(Zusak, 97),  Another title of a chapter, these two words are pure personification.  The letters are definitely not dead because they were never living.  Giving a object human qualities is personification.

    4.Metonymy-"The book penned by the Füher himself"(Zusak, 125).  A metonymy is when a you replace a word with a attribute of that word like penned for wrote or eyes for sight.  If you take this sentence like it is then it doesn't make any sense but take it as a metonymy and it means Hitler wrote a book.




As you can probably tell The Book Thief is a very figurative book.  The reason for this is that the book is narrated by death itself.  Which is also figurative because death is personified.  So this book is Figurative inside a narrated by figurativity.

Zusak, Markus. The book thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.