The misfit's assertion that he was "buried alive" is an example of a metaphor to foreshadow what will happen to the family a hyperbole to show how awful his life in prison was for him a cliché to show that his experience in prison was a common one a simile to compare his experience in prison with that of a dead person

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d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

a. the scene is structured as a dialogue between two characters in their own informal language.