Imagery
"The Boardwalk lights against the deepening blue sky gained an ideal, starry beauty and the lights from the belt of honky-tonks and shooting galleries and beer gardens gleamed with a quiet purity in the the clear twilight." (pg. 47)
Simile
"By the time we had reached it sweat was running like oil from Finny's face...The leg in its cast was like a sea anchor dragged behind." (pg.112)
Metaphor
"...not seeps of them or clusters or Milky Ways as there might have been in the South, but single chilled points of light, as unromantic as knife blades." (pg. 101)
alliteration
"The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session! How's that?" (pg. 31)
Personification
"As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck." (pg.141)