Figurative Language

Simile - a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “ she is like a rose.”
Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.”

Simile

1. I realize its wearing one of those red vests, like a St. Bernard that might carry rum up a snowy mountain. (Page 62)
2. He was talking about my little girl as if she were some kind of machine. (Page 66)
3. He's asleep, curled like a braided rug to the left of my desk" (Page 117)
4. It comes out in a thick clump, like a small blizzard. (Page 67)
5. They'll watch the gibbons swinging around like Olympic gymnasts and just start talking about what happens at home. (Page 110)

 Metaphor

1. Is this coldhearted man the one who will lead us through this war, our general, our white knight? (Page 60)

2. As if she were some kind of machine: a car with a faulty carburetor. (Page 66)

3. Brian and I watched the doctors hover over Kate's  feverish body, bees over a field of flowers. (Page 69)

4. I weave in and out of traffic, sewing up a scar. (Page 93)

5. He gets to his feet, a schoolboy caught in an indecent act. (Page 115)