Simile
I was lying on the ground, holding my nuts as tenderly as a squirrel holds his nuts (Alexie, 9).
Personification
That silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch (Alexie, 14).
Allusion
I was still a stranger in a strange land (Alexie, 33).
Hyperbole
And, after Eugene's funeral, I agreed with her. I could have easily killed myself, killed my mother and father, killed the birds, killed the trees, and killed the oxygen in the air (Alexie, 68).