In The Last Book in the Universe Rodman Philbrick used Figurative language to reach his intended audience. Throughout the story Rodman Philbrick gave many excellent examples of figurative language to give the reader a clear picture but there were two parts that strongly stood out. At the beginning of the story Lanaya is described to have “short hair that sort of glows, like the sun is always shining on her” (Philbrick 22). This simile is used to describe how Lanaya’s hair may look by comparing it to something else. Toward the middle of the book another well thought out example of figurative language is used just before the monkey boys attack Ryter, Spaz, and Little face. The monkey boys as stated by the author “they've become as wild as the
