Figurative Language-The Outsiders

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Figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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

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Simile

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

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Metaphor

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Referring to a well-known person, place, or event

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Allusion

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Giving human qualities to something that is not human

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Personification

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Identify the figure of speech: "So I stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me."

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Simile

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Identify the figure of speech: He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice.

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Simile

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You're bleedin' like a stuck pig.

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Simile

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"I skipped breakfast and I'm about starved."

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Hyperbole

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Identify the literary device in the quote:

"Hey, Ponyboy! Or should I say Sleeping Beauty?" (80)

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Allusion