True Diary - Section 1

What type of figurative language is this? “I ran around the rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa” (3.)

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? “And, oh, I was skinny. I’d turn sideways and disappear” (3).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? Simile: “But that makes the whole thing sound weirdo and funny, like my brain was a giant French fry...” (2).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? Simile: Junior’s parents bring home Kentucky Fried Chicken strive to meet his needs, in spite of poverty and dad’s alcoholism (8).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? “I was hot mad. Volcano mad. Tsunami mad” (11).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? “He [Rowdy] is long and lean and strong like a snake. His heart is as strong and mean as a snake, too” (15).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

What type of figurative language is this? “...there’s probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy” (30).

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

Based on what you have read so far, what arguments do you think Alexie is making about race, poverty, and the treatment of Native Americans?

In the middle of page 13, Junior says “It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Why does Junior feel so hopeless?

Writers construct an ethos, the person that they want their readers to imagine is making the

argument. What is the ethos that Alexie has constructed through the character of Junior? What does he want us to believe about him?