Response #5 from Elsa

Lots, lots and lots of illuminated things.
The things I have seen since I have been in Astoria could fill a book or a dream.p187
a herd of brothers hyperbole p189
The temperature dropped and the Columbia has frozen up like a sheet of glass.p198 simile
I,August Olson,will lynch Captain Jordon and fillet him like a salmon.p200 simile
They're like dumb cows who won't come in during a snowstorm,who just stand there till they're dead from the cold.p200 simile
As we run down the streets, my heart beats faster and faster, I think it will explode.p201 hyperbole
I say, Emma, you must be crazy as a lunatic if you're thinking of kissing a boy.p207 simile
Like how?she says, wrinkling her nose just like Aunt Alice.p208 simile
She is so polite, she really is like a miniature Aunt Alice.p209 simile
Until then, we have to keep our lips sealed.p211
Otto wears pajama pants like the Chinamen I've seen down at the docks.p212 simile
He gets to climb the high masts and Ed Grady says that Wilbert moves faster than the monkey's he's seen climbing the trees in the jungles of Africa.p215 hyperbole
They leave me standing there like a porcupine while they walk around me and adjust this hem and that tuck and nip the waist in just a bit tighter here and there.p217 simile
Wilbert's eyes just about fall out of his head when he sees her walking down the stairs in her fine yellow dress; she looks a picture to be sure.p218 hyperbole
More of the food is ending up on my dress than in my belly.p222 hyperbole
rapscallions; a disreputable person rascal or rogue.p233
Mamma just blushes, like a girl really, like one of those girls who used to chase Matti.p241 simile
I grab Bosie by the piece of rope around his neck and swim as hard as I can to the bank, but the logs are coming fast as Salmon.p245 simile
Then all of a sudden, I see that Wilbert has climbed the tree on the bank as fast as a monkey, and he swings down from a branch and hoists me up and Bosie too, and when I look down I can't see any water at all only logs crashing down the Nasel.p245 simile
like an angry waterfall p246 simile
Pappa reaches us first and his face is as dark as thunder.p246 hyperbole
I was the only May Amelia Jackson they had.p247