"There There" Figurative Language

"Opal with her static, sober, stoic state" (Orange 107)

Alliteration

"The trouble with believing is you have to believe that believing will work, you have to believe in belief" (Orange 62)

Anaphora

The Yacht: "'But your father gave you this yacht'...At which point that person gets tossed overboard by a group of hired thugs who'd been hired by the father who owned the yacht" (Orange 138)

Anecdote

"Then Two Shoes went quiet. That's the way it was with him. He either had something to say or he didn't. I could tell by what kind of shine I saw in the black of his eyes which one it was" (Orange 52)

Anthropomorphism

"Jacquie got out of the pool and went to the towel. She heaved the bundle back, then threw it high into the air, into the water...She watched the bottles sink to the bottom" (Orange 117)

Baptism/Rebirth

"The field is set up for baseball. The grass is so short it doesn't move. It is the oak-cork stillness of the center of a baseball. The grass is chalked with straight lines..." (Orange 83)

Imagery

"That big stick is the lie about mercy...That's what they used on us, bears and Indians both" (Orange 52)

Metaphor

"Veho was the white man who came and made the old world watch with his eyes" (Orange 106)

Metaphor

Indian Head: "There was an Indian head, the head of an Indian, the drawing of the head of a head-dressed, long-haired Indian depicted, drawn by an unknown artist in 1939..." (Orange 4)

Motif

"...Everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed" (Orange 11)

Paradox

"There was so much he'd missed, hadn't been given. Hadn't been told" (Orange 121)

Parallel structure

"The bullets moved on after moving through us, became the promise of what was to come, the speed and the killing, the hard, fast lines of borders an building" (Orange 10)

Personification

"Wind howled in the tunnel. At him. It seemed to breathe. It was a mouth and a throat" (Orange 43)

Personification

"'You remember we heard a voice, and then you thought someone grabbed your leg, and you squealed like a little ******* baby pig, and you almost fell in but I pulled you back and we jumped and ran out of there together?" (Orange 93)

Polysyndeton

"...something we could work toward, for our jewelry, our songs, our dances, our drum" (Orange 135)

Repetition

"Being bipolar is like having an ax to grind with an ax you need to split the wood to keep you warm in a cold dark forest you only might eventually realize you'll never make your way out of" (Orange 87)

Simile