Figurative Language

1. "Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat- even the date palms look limp with the exhaustion of survival" - simile (Bhagdad Burning)
2. "I could swear that at noon, in Iraq, the sun shuts out the rest of the world from its glory and concentrates its energies on us" -personification (Bhagdad Burning)
3. "The boy who didn't get his pony"-Cliche (songs/voices)
4. "Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado"-Simile (Bhagdad Burning)