The Outsiders Figurative Language

Johnny was scared to death. (54)

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Would we ever have something to tell the boys, his eyes said plainly. (Do eyes speak?) pg. 25

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

He didn't make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. (Can tears run? Do they have legs?)

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me. (Is the shirt eating him?) pg.64

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

• Simile

Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.

• Simile

• Pokémon Pokémon Pokémon

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

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

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia