The Outsiders Figurative Language

Life was one big joke to Two-Bit. (10)

• Metaphor

• I can't wait to watch the movie

• Simile

• Allusion

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Giving human qualities to something that is not human

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Personification

So I stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice. (6)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

You're bleedin' like a stuck pig. (7)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

I skipped breakfast and I'm about starved. (80)

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Simile

He didn't have Darry's superman qualities. (76)

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The water from it was like liquid ice. (69)

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion