Figurative Language The Outsiders

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Figurative LanguageThe Outsiders

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Allusion
• Synecdoche
• Identify them
• Interpret them
• Produce them

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Simile

• A comparison between unlike objects that uses
  like or as.
• But most (Socs) looked at us as if we were dirt.
  
• The Socs treat them like they are low class
• I told you he (Sodapop)
  looks like a movie star,
  
  and he kind of radiates
  He is handsome and
  charismatic

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Metaphor

• A comparison between unlike objects that does not
  use like or as.
• Tim had the tense, hungry look of an alley cat
• He was sly and dangerous
• Johnny Cade reminded me of a lost puppy that had
  been kicked too many times
• He was Meek and Dependent on the gang
• He had been beaten by his old man

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Personification

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman
  objects.
• There was a silent moment when everything held
  its breath.
• And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into
  the night, Dally raised the gun
• The guns spitting fire (bullets) OR
• A Metaphor-Guns are dragon breathing fire

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HYPERBOLE

• Expresses an obvious exaggeration
• I couldnt have gotten up to save my life
• Two Bits mom let him get away with murder

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Allusion

• Refers to an event in history or Literature.
• I was reminded of Jack London's books where the
  wolf pack waits in silence for one of two members
  to go down in a fight
• Also a metaphor
• I turned my head to look at him and in the
  moonlight he (Johnny) looked like some Greek god
  come to Earth
• Also a simile

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Synecdoche

• The part represents the whole
• Cherrys red corvette is a nice set of wheels
• Are only the wheels nice?
• All hands on deck
• Not only the hands, but the whole body comes on
  deck

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• Metaphor
• Hes young, wild, and free
• Metaphor
• He is greasy like a car
• Also Hyperbole

• I swear, sometimes he (Soda) reminds me of a
  colt. A long-legged palomino colt
• Hes so greasy, he glides when he walks.
• He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a
  haircut (2)

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• It scraped my raw nerves like sandpaper!
• Johnny was scared of his own shadow
• Soda and Darry always got spruced up for a rumble

• Simile
• It irritated me
• Hyperbole
• Hes afraid of everything
• Metaphor
• They dressed-up
• Looked like a spruce tree

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• "Here!" Dally handed me a shirt about
  sixty-million sizes too big.
• (Darry) He's got eyes that are like two pieces of
  pale blue-green ice.
• (Pony) you've always got your nose in a book

• HYPERBOLE
• 60 million ???
• SIMILE
• Maybe Hyperbole-
• Synecdoche
• Noses cant read!!!!!

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• Johnny was white as a ghost and his eyes were
  wild looking like an animal in a trap!
• Southern gentlemen with big black eyes in blue
  jeans and T-shirts, Southern gentlemen crumpling
  under street lights. (2)

• Similes (2)
• White as a ghost
• Animal in a trap
• He was afraid
• Metaphor
• Also an Allusion

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What Kind of Figurative
Language is it?

• I was getting mad. I was having them enough to
  lose my head!
• I was sleepy and freezing to death.
• Glory, look at the kid. And the ground rushed up
  to meet me very suddenly.

• Hyperbole
• Hyperbole
• Personification

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• I guess Id been watching too many Perry Mason
  (TV) shows
• Soda was fiddling with some dead grass
• Suddenly it was deathly quiet!

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• The grass was a violin
• Soda was using his fingers like playing a violin
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• I felt tension growing inside of me. I knew
  something had to happen or I would explode!
• We went to the concession stand and, as usual,
  there was a line a mile long

• Metaphor
• Tension growing like a plant
• Hyperbole
• Explode like a bomb
• Hyperbole
• It was Long, but not a mile long

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What Kind of Figurative Language is
it?

• It was like sitting on top of the World!
• Soda attracted girls like honey attracted flies

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• He was very sweet
• Handsome
• Girls loved him