Personification

Please post an example of personification from your poetry novel. Include the page number.

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Metaphor

Please post an example of a metaphor from your poetry novel. Also explain, in a sentence, the two items that are being compared. Include the page number.

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Alliteration

Please post an example of alliteration from your poetry novel. Include the page number.

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Alliteration Help

Additional Poetic Device

Please identify an additional poetic device used in your novel (not metaphor, personification, alliteration, or simile). Please include the page number where you found the example. Potential devices may be rhyme scheme, allusion, onomatopoeia, symbolism, imagery, etc.

Please identify which device you're using along with the example from the text.

Book Thief links

This is an interesting site I came upon. Check out the link to the NPR interview and the ABC news interview with Marcus Zusak. There is definitely some thought-provoking insight into the novel in them!
sherid.wordpress.com/2006/11/18/the-book-thief-by-marcus-zusak/

Torn Thread

Papa's advice, "One more hour. . . Try to stay alive for one more hour...." first appears on page 20 and runs through the book like the refrain of a song. What does this statement imply about the preciousness of life? In what other passages does the book convey a sense of life's beauty and goodness, even in dark hours, which makes it worth fighting for?

Friedrich

Which character in Friedrich might be called the most heroic? Why?