Outsiders: Figurative Language Review

"...but it was water. I splashed some on my face and that woke me up pretty quick." (Chapter 5)

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

"So I stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me." (Chapter 1)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"My overactive imagination was running away with me again." (Chapter 5)

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Life was one big joke to Two Bit." (Chapter 1)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue green ice." (Chapter 1)

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Johnny is wanted for murder, and Dallas has a record with the fuzz a mile long." (Chapter 6)

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

"We could see for miles; see the ribbon of highway and the small dots that were houses and cars. We couldn't watch the sunset, since the back faced east, but I loved to look at the colors of the fields and the soft shadings of the horizon."

(Chapter 5)

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly."

(Chapter 10)

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

"I heard our Ford's vvrrrooooom and thought: Soda's driving."

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

"You're bleedin' like a stuck pig." (Chapter 1)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery