Figurative LanguageThe Outsiders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Kind of Figurative Language is it?

• 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)

• Metaphor• He’s young, wild,

and free• Metaphor• He is greasy like

a car• Also Hyperbole

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

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!!!!!

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

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

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• Metaphor

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

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