1. Anadiplosis

"... the Blue Eagle, the Old One's words followed me, followed me all the way along the snow-dusted streets of Chinatown" (p133)

2. Anaphora

"... how to hold my elbows in; how to take a dive, his way; how to propel my fists with fake jabs; how to duck my head and aim my right into my opponent's glass jaw." (p126)

3. Alliteration

"... where I belonged, dressed perfectly, behaved beyond reproach, and was loved, always loved..." (p38)

4. Allusion

"I looked again into the hall mirror, seeking Shirley Temple with her dimpled smile and perfect white-skin features." (p41)

5. Apposition

"... and even Tarzan and his pet chimpanzee, Cheetah, should always politely knock first..." (p14)

6. Imagery

"... about how they worked, like demon dragons spewing flames for hundreds of feet in every direction." (p184)

7. Metaphor

"...staring back at me, stood Monkey, the Monkey King of Poh-Poh's stories, disguised as an old man bent over two canes." (p18)

8. Polysyndenton

"... Kiam and I carried Mrs. Chin's dump-truck delivery of firelogs and kindling up the slope of her back yard and stacked the wood in her shed of her." (p103)

9. Personification

"... a mountain, after much labour, yawning wide." (p 15)

10. Simile

"The old man's face was like no other human one we had seen before: a wide-eyed, wet-nosed creature stared back at us." (p17)