Similes:
"They're weak as water." - Chapter 5.
"And as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck's wounds." - Chapter 6.
"The rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb." - Chapter 6.
Metaphors:
"Now, you red-eyed devil." (said one of the tormenters talking about Buck.) - Chapter 1.
"One devil, dat Spitz." (Perrault) - Chapter 3.
"Thornton's command cracked out like a pistol shot." - Chapter 6.
Personification:
"Stars leaping in the frost dance." - Chapter 3.
"The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life." -Chapter 5.
"His great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." - Chapter 7.
Onomatopoeia:
"The hoarse shriek of a locomotive whistling a crossing told him where he was." - Chapter 1.
"Something wriggled under his feet." - Chapter 2.
"The crackling turned into a snapping, the sled pivoting and the runners slipping and grating several inches to the side." - Chapter 6.
Hyperbole:
"Listen; some dam fine day him get mad like hell and den him chew dat Spitz all up and spit him out on de snow. Sure, I know." - Chapter 3.
"They're weak as water." - Chapter 5.
"And as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck's wounds." - Chapter 6.
"The rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb." - Chapter 6.
Metaphors:
"Now, you red-eyed devil." (said one of the tormenters talking about Buck.) - Chapter 1.
"One devil, dat Spitz." (Perrault) - Chapter 3.
"Thornton's command cracked out like a pistol shot." - Chapter 6.
Personification:
"Stars leaping in the frost dance." - Chapter 3.
"The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life." -Chapter 5.
"His great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." - Chapter 7.
Onomatopoeia:
"The hoarse shriek of a locomotive whistling a crossing told him where he was." - Chapter 1.
"Something wriggled under his feet." - Chapter 2.
"The crackling turned into a snapping, the sled pivoting and the runners slipping and grating several inches to the side." - Chapter 6.
Hyperbole:
"Listen; some dam fine day him get mad like hell and den him chew dat Spitz all up and spit him out on de snow. Sure, I know." - Chapter 3.