In Chapter 1 of "Bridge to Terabithia," examples of figurative language include:
- "The sun scattered golden spots through the shade of the trees." (personification)
- "His voice was like a sound that you hear when you put a seashell up to your ear." (simile)
- "It was an inviting thicket anyway, full of sun-dAppled shadows and the bleached-bone limbs of old trees." (metaphor)
