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The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane'....
Metaphor
The pilot seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane. (pg. 3)
Metaphor
Brian went back to looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes. (pg. 5)
Metaphor
He would normally have said no, that it looked too hokey to have a hatchet on your belt. ( p. 5)
Idiom
Those were the normal things he would say, but her voice had a sound like something thin that would break if you touched it. (p. 9 )
Simile
Now a jolt took him like a hammerblow; so forcefully that he seemed to crush back into the seat. (p. 10)
Simile
The plane did not dive, but the nose went down slightland the down-angel increased the speed... (pg. 14)
Personification
For a second, all he heard was the whusssh of the empty air waves. (pg. 19)
Onomatopoeia
Brian felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky. ( p. 21)
Simile
The skin was cold, hard, death cold. ( pg. 24)
metaphor
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, the engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died. (pg. 25)
Personification
The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide that ate altitude, and suddenly there weren't any lakes (pg. 26)
Personification
It slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground - all like a picture (p. 28)
Simile
From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life.
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