Figurative Language – The Outsiders – Flashcards
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I just stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me.
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Johnny was scared of his own shadow.
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Life was one big joke to Two-bit.
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Dallas had a record with the fuzz a mile long.
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Soda attracted girls like honey attracted flies.
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I knew I was as white as I felt, and I was shaking like a leaf.
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He was the gang's pet.
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They came running at us now. They were tough as nails.
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You're bleeding like a stuck pig.
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He had an elfish face.
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The Socs treat us like we're dirt.
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He's got eyes like ...pale blue ice.
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It's a pack - a snarling distrustful pack of wolves.
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The concession stand had a line a mile long.
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I heard the same thing a million times - greaser, greaser, greaser.
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Why's a smart kid like you running around with trash?
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If you could picture a little dark puppy that's been kicked...that would be Johnny.
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I could taste the blood running through my teeth.
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Compared to Johnny's home, my home was like heaven.
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Johnny was scared of his own shadow.
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He would have run away a million times if we hadn't been there.
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You've always got your nose in a book.
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Man, your brother's a doll.
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He went around trying to break laws.
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Johnny couldn't say "boo" to a goose.
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Johnny worshipped the ground Dallas walked on.
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Skin fighting isn't rough. It blows off steam better than anything.
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I almost jumped out of my skin.
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Two-Bit's dancing gray eyes were stormy.
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There was Two-Bit grinning like a Chessy cat.
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A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as."
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A figure of speech where two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another.
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A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
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A figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human qualities
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The Soc's treat them like they are low class.
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There was a silent moment when everything held its breath.
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And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into the night, Dally raised the gun
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I couldn't have gotten up to save my life.
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Two Bit's mom let him get away with murder.
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He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut.
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I swear, sometimes he (Soda) reminds me of a colt--a long-legged palomino colt.
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He's so greasy, he glides when he walks.
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It scraped my raw nerves like sandpaper!
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"Here!" Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.
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Johnny was white as a ghost and his eyes were wild looking like an animal in a trap!
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I was sleepy and freezing to death.
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Glory, look at the kid. And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly.
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"It's like being in a Halloween costume we can't get out of."
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The water from it was like liquid ice and it tasted funny.
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She was mad by then. "I wouldn't drink it (a coke from Dally) if I was starv¬ing in the desert. Get lost, hood!"
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My overactive imagination was running away with me again.
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But Soda looked at me like he was sentencing me to the electric chair.
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And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into the night. Dally raised his gun.
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Darry had cooked three chickens, potatoes and corn because the three of us eat like horses.
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I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me.
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Most of my friends at school come from good homes, not filthy-rich like the Socs.
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It was only yesterday that Dally had told Johnny and me that. But yesterday was years ago. A lifetime ago.
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I felt tension growing inside of me. (1) I knew something had to happen or I would explode! (1)
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I woke up late in the afternoon. For a second I didn't know where I was. You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes rushing over you like a wave.
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If Sylvia flirted with Johnny, Steve threatened to beat the living tar out of her.
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The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin golden line.
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I was dying for a Pepsi. I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict. I drink them like a fiend.
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You look like you've been through the mill.
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