"The Outsiders" 1-6 Skills Practice

A comparison between two items that does NOT use the words "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Giving human qualities to something that is not human

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Repeating beginning sounds of words

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

A comparison between two items that uses the words "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

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

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

"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