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Metaphor
" she quickly fished her own flashlight from under the bed"( Hosseini 127)
My example : "Fished for her own flashlight" tells me ,the reader , that whatever needs to be found is urgent and needs to be found soon.

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Visual Imagery

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“America was different. America was a river, roaring along, mindful of the past.”(Hosseini 114)

The literary device is a metaphor

My example: The river is a runner, tumbling rapidly over the river bed.

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“The pink house with the steeply pitched roof had been the neighborhood’s only house of that color in the old days” (Hosseini 260).

My Example:

“He drove us into a wide street with fairly clean sidewalks and walled homes on either side”

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Personification
"So you're saying it grew little legs and walked out?" (Hosseini 233)
My example: The missing spoon had to grow wings and fly out the window because it was nowhere to be found.

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Simile
"Laila could hardly move, as though cement had solidified in every one of her joints" (Hosseini 162)
My example:
Laila couldn't move, as if every part of her was made of stone

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Personification
"Lila's heart jumped" (Hosseini 151)
One day me and my sister had a big performance in front of all these people. I was nervous but I knew I could do it but my heat jumped just like Lila's. I could feel and hear it but I stood on the strength and courage I had.

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Personification: "It was the first time she'd eaten ice cream and Marian had never imagined that such tricks could be played on a palate" (73).
my example: marian taste buds were too excited they were jumping up and down

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Simile
“Zalmai lay around the house, eyes dulled and half closed, or in his father’s lap, limp as a rag” (Hosseini 306).
My example: Zalmai's eyes were dulled like a gray sky because of his abundant hunger.

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" Now they squatted at every street corner, dressed in shredded burlap rags, mud-caked hands held out for a coin" (Hosseini 245).
The literary device is visual imagery. Example: They sat in the laps of their burqa-clad mothers alongside gutters of busy street corners chanting "bakhdesh, bakhdesh!"

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"I heard the leather of  Baba's seat cracking as he shifted on it" (Hosseini 22)
this literary device is auditory imagery
my example: " I had my head pressed against the window so i could hear the low humming of the car driving down the street"

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Metaphor
“His patience with Zalmai was a well that ran deep and never dried” (Hosseini 264).
My Example:
Even with all the mischief he caused, Rasheed's patience for Zalmai was a overflowing forest brook.

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Biblical Allusion:
"He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver" (Hosseini 371)."
My example: "The garden was so beautiful it could be compared to Eden".

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Metaphor
“The bus was a sad carcass of rusted metal” (Hosseini 137)
My example: The weary and beaten riders on the bus were a fog around me, clouding my vision of the dissolved glory of the Kabul rubble.

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Visual Imagery
“His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. I felt like a prick.” (Hosseini).

My example: His tears streamed down his face like a flowing waterfall.

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"One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate those green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot" (Hosseini 340).
The literary device is a simile.
My example: "The apples in the tree were as green as the frogs that lived in our pond."