Personification:
Windows so
            small you'd think they were holding their
            breath..."(2)
“Four skinny trees…they grow up
            and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the earth with
            violent teeth and never quit their anger”
            (74).
“…the moan of the wooden door as it opens
            and lets loose its sigh of dampness” (71).
 “But I think
            diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone” (58).
            
Similes
The
            kids…almost break like fancy museum vases you can’t replace”
            (29).
Let one forget his reason for being,
            they’d all droop like tulips in a glass”
            (74-75).
“She keeps looking around her like a
            wild animal in a house for the first time” (68).
“The moon
            is beautiful like a balloon” (68).
 
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