Metaphor
"It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb."
(Page 81)
Simile
"Little shapes formed behind my eyelids, like hands playing shadows on the wall"
(page 89)
Personification
"silver lions guarding the wrought-iron gates"
(page 143)
Assonance
"the clothes he'd worn on the last day of his life"
(page 271)
Epithet
"Assef the Ear Eater"
(page 45)
Paradox
"My body was broken... but I felt healed"
(page 303)
Repetition
"But I was laughing and laughing"
(page 302)
Alliteration
"the spool spinning in Hassan's..."
(page 129)
Allusion:
"I could recite dozens of verses from Khayyám, Hāfez, or Rumi's famous Masnawi"
(page 20)
Foreshadowing
"I'm a very patient person. This doesn't end today, believe me"
(page 46)
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