Raymond's Run

"And as anybody can tell you, I'm the fastest thing on two feet."

• metaphor

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• hyperbole

• allusion

"The big kids call me Mercury..."

• allusion

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...so now she hangs out with the new girl Gretchen and talks about me like a dog..."

• metaphor

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• allusion

• repetition

"But the white ribbon is bouncing toward me and I tear past it..."

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

• allusion

"He sticks out in a crowd because he's on stilts."

• hyperbole or metaphor

• hyperbole or simile

• simile or metaphor

• symbol or onomatopoeia

"But of course when I pass her house on my early morning trots around the block, she is practicing the scales on the piano over and over and over and over."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• allusion

• repetition

"...and I see right away that it's going to be one of those Dodge City scenes cause the street ain't that big..."

• Simile

• allusion

• metaphor

• symbol

"...the whole world is quiet except for the crunch as I zoom over the gravel on the track."

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

• onomatopoeia

"He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie."

• simile

• symbol

• allusion

• metaphor

"Then I hear Raymond yanking at the fence to call me and I wave to shush him but he keeps rattling the fence like a gorilla in a cage..."

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• repetition