Ransom of Red Chief

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Ransom of Red Chief

• Your dialectical journal will include
• 5 similes
• 2 situational irony
• 2 verbal irony
• 6 allusions
• 2 metaphors
• 2 hyperboles
• 1 personification
• Your assertion will be the figurative language
  you are searching for in the text.

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Dialectical Journal
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Geronimo
Why do people say Geronimo as they jump out of
planes? They are hoping they are invincible and
impermeable to injuries Why would Bill use this
allusion? THINK!

• Geronimo was the leader of the last American
  Indian fighting force formally to capitulate to
  the United States. Because he fought against such
  daunting odds and held out the longest, he became
  the most famous Apache of all. To the pioneers
  and settlers of Arizona and New Mexico, he was a
  bloody-handed murderer and this image endured
  until the second half of this century.
• Some attributed his numerous raiding successes to
  powers conferred by supernatural beings,
  including a reputed invulnerability to bullets.

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Remember the dream of the pirate Sam has? Sam
feels as if they have been pirated out of their
ransom by Ebenezer and his young
son. http//www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm66
.html September 2nd, 2009.