1. Figurative Language The Outsiders
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion
Synecdoche
Identify them
Interpret them
Produce them

2. Simile— A comparison between unlike objects that uses like or as.
But most (Soc’s) looked at us as if we were dirt.
The Soc’s 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. HYPERBOLE Expresses an obvious exaggeration
I couldn’t have gotten up to save my life
Two Bit’s mom let him get away with murder

6. 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

7. Synecdoche The part represents the whole
Cherry’s 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

8. What Kind of Figurative Language is it?
Metaphor
He’s young, wild, and free
He is greasy like a car
Also Hyperbole
I swear, sometimes he (Soda) reminds me of a colt. A long-legged palomino colt
He’s so greasy, he glides when he walks.
He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut (2)

9. 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
He’s afraid of everything
Metaphor
They dressed-up
Looked like a spruce tree

10. 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 can’t read!!!!!

11. 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

12. 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
Personification

13. What Kind of Figurative Language is it?
I guess I’d 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

14. 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
It was Long, but not a mile long

15. 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