The Outsiders Figurative Language

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

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

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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

• Metaphor

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• Hyperbole

• Imagery

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"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

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"The concession stand had a line a mile long." (Chapter 2)

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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"Soda attracted girls like honey attracted flies." (Chapter 1)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

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"The moon wasn't out but the stars lit up everything. It was quiet except for the sound of our feet on the cement and the dry, scraping sound of leaves blowing across the street."

(Chapter 12)

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

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"He's busy," Buck snapped, and someone in his living room yelled "A-ha!" and then "Yee-ha.""

(Chapter 4)

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

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"We saw the same sunset."

(Chapter 3)

• Simile

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

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