The Jacket by Gary Soto Figurative Language

"My clothes have failed me."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

You either danced or "pressed yourself against a greasy wall, bitter as a penny toward the happy couples."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Soto wanted a jacket with "enough belts to hold down a small town"

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I discovered draped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day-old guacamole."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"I stared at the jacket, like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off my old jacket."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I was a small kid, thin as a young tree."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I took off my old jacket whose sleeves climbed halfway to my elbow."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"I put my hands in the pockets and flapped the jacket like a bird's wings."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

"I hurled orange peels at the mouth of an open garbage can."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

"I took off the jacket during lunch and played kickball in a thin shirt, my arms feeling like Braille from goose bumps."

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3