Chapter 1 (p. 14)
We look at his bed covering. His leg lies under a wire basket. I kick Muller on the shin, for he is
just about to tell Kemmerich what the orderlies told us outside: that Kemmerich has lost his foot. The leg is amputated. He looks ghastly, yellow and wan. In his face there are already the strained lines that we know so well, we have seen them now hundreds of times. They are not so much lines as marks. Under the skin the life no longer pulses, it has already pressed out the boundaries of the body. Death is working through from within. It already has command in the eyes. Here lies our comrade, Kemmerich, who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell-holes. He it is still and yet it is not he any longer. His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken. Even his voice sounds like ashes.
Questions:
1. Find the example of personification in this paragraph.
2. Find the example of simile in this paragraph.
"His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken."
3. What words describe what death looks like in this paragraph?