Figurative Language in My Sister's Keeper

Simile: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
Metaphor:an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another


Simile: 
1. "Actually, thats's not quite true- right now she doesn't have it, but it's hibernating under her skin like a bear, untill it decides to roar again" (10) 
2. "Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed" (11).
3. "It smells like the sweaty tongue of a hockey skate" (14).
4. "Instigating a lawsuit because your parents won't let you get birth control or go to an abortion clinic is like using a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito" (21)
5. "Anger glows around this kid like electricity" (21).
6. "Where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road" (21).


Metaphor:
1. "Lately, I have been having nightmare, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together" (13).
2. "My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel. I suppose that's what I,m doing, when you get right down to it; but then again, my dad also says that when flames are licking at your heels you've hot to break a wall or two if you want to escape" (13).
3. "The room is a sea of dirty cloths and magazines and leftover Chinese take- out cartons" (14).
4. "Brian and I watch the doctors hover over Kate's feverish body, bees over a field of flowers, drawing what they can form her" (69).
5. "Her voice is a feather, a thread" (70).
6. "The saline pumps her up from the inside out, a baloon to be inflated" (70).
7. "My apartment, it is a work of art" (75).