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Compares two unlike objects without using the words like or as. 

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Compares two unlike objects without using the words like or as. 

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Compares two unlike objects using the words “like” or “as.” 

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Compares two unlike objects using the words “like” or “as.” 

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human things

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human things

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words arent actually climbing up her throat she just feels like she needs to say something

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intentionally making a situation seem less important than it really is

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intentionally making a situation seem less important than it really is

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someone says or does something, but means another thing or intends for something else to happen that would be contrary to thought. 

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someone says or does something, but means another thing or intends for something else to happen that would be contrary to thought. 

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In literature, there are three main subtypes of irony. They are verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony.

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Name "quote the fig lang from text" (page #)

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Name "quote the fig lang from text" (page #)

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the literal meaning - what is actually being said or implied here

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''You've already let them beat your creativity out of you''
pg 11
it means they have no creativity

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 Titus M "I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way". PG(39)

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 Titus M "I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way". PG(39)

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The real meaning to what she said is probably that she just wants to escape from something a pain or something that's in her head that keeps stressing her.

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Zyanya Martinez "My room belongs to an alien. It is a postcard of who i was in fifth grade."  (pg. 15)

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Zyanya Martinez "My room belongs to an alien. It is a postcard of who i was in fifth grade."  (pg. 15)

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Melinda is saying her room represents a different version of herself from when she was younger.

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Jaelyn Romanotto "My heart clangs like a fire bell." p71

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Jaelyn Romanotto "My heart clangs like a fire bell." p71

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Melinda is remembering her past Christmas' and she gets kinda sad and her anxiety comes in a little bit missing the past.

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the cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of teenage humiliation rituals (page 104)

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Jakisa Waddy ¨The carcasses rot until their skin hangs like ribbons over their bones¨ p.121

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Jakisa Waddy ¨The carcasses rot until their skin hangs like ribbons over their bones¨ p.121

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Melinda is saying that the deer are there for a long time and they are starting to peel.

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"I think for sure he's going o explode." p53

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"I think for sure he's going o explode." p53

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he was very angry about his son not getting the job

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Tiffany Zheng "This closet is abandoned it has no purpose, no name. It is the perfect place for me." p26

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Tiffany Zheng "This closet is abandoned it has no purpose, no name. It is the perfect place for me." p26

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The closet can relate to Melinda because it's been abandoned like Melinda has. They both don't have a identity resulting in no purpose for the both of them making them alone.

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Ethan Rutter "The wet wool smells like 1st grade" pg 71

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Ethan Rutter "The wet wool smells like 1st grade" pg 71

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Damian Meyer "IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or id throw up."(pg.46) 

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Damian Meyer "IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or id throw up."(pg.46) 

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Her lips look stitched together because she bites them or is biting them.

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she exaggerates her appearance in the mirror.
"She is disgusted by her appearance, and manipulates the mirror so that she looks like 'a Picasso sketch,' her face and body broken into different 'dissecting cubes.'"

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"The wind stirs the branches overhead. My heart clangs like a fire bell." She probably meant that the wind was intense so it hit hard.

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"I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded Zebra in a national Geography special." pg 5

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"Words climb up my throat." pg.5

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When she says "The First ten lies they tell you in high school." pg 5

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Josie Ralph "The 8 foot senior in front of me some how gets 3 cheeseburgers." pg 8

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Josie Ralph "The 8 foot senior in front of me some how gets 3 cheeseburgers." pg 8

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"Strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and 1,000s of leaves reaching to the sun." This shows a personification* becuase the leaves are stretched toward the sky like people reach*.

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Noah W. "I'm supposed to make a centerpiece out of waxed maple leaves, acorns, ribbon, and a mile of thin wire." Page 44

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Noah W. "I'm supposed to make a centerpiece out of waxed maple leaves, acorns, ribbon, and a mile of thin wire." Page 44

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She is exaggerating how much thin wire she actually has.

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"The air smells like french fries and floor cleaner." (Pg 99)

She compares the smell of the air to the fries.

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"'My brain doesn't think we should spend time hanging around algebra"'
pg 39
it means she doesn't want to do algebra

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Sofi Young "There is a sprinkling of losers like me scattered among the happy teenagers, prunes in the oatmeal of the school" p 128 

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Sofi Young "There is a sprinkling of losers like me scattered among the happy teenagers, prunes in the oatmeal of the school" p 128 

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The school is not literally oatmeal and prunes arent supposed to be in oatmeal so Melinda compares the two as if she is a prune.

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Jonah Perry " Dad snorts like a bull"pg 36

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Jonah Perry " Dad snorts like a bull"pg 36

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Melinda is saying that her dad snorts really loud.

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Marell Thomas "My lips bleeds a little it taste like metal." 

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Marell Thomas "My lips bleeds a little it taste like metal." 

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When she bites her lips and they start to bleed, she says it taste like metal.

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Tadhg Wilhite                 "you are on fire, Melinda"(pg. 61)

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Tadhg Wilhite                 "you are on fire, Melinda"(pg. 61)

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Meliinda is not literally on fire but she is doing a great job and is on a roll.

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Ashlee Pryor "As if two hands of black fingernails are clamped on my windpipe." (pg.28)

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Ashlee Pryor "As if two hands of black fingernails are clamped on my windpipe." (pg.28)

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Melinda was describing how her throat felt after a girl in the bleachers says that her brother was arrested at the party after it is revealed that Melinda was the one who called the cops.

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Darion Marchan- "It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it."

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Darion Marchan- "It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it."

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This is Melinda comparing a color to something a vomit which gives people an idea.

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Darion Marchan- "It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet around it." PG 35

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Darion Marchan- "It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet around it." PG 35

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This gives people a clear idea to what the green looks like.

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Melinda is referring to her dad snoring very loud.- Jace Easley

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"I stand in the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special" PG. 5

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"I stand in the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special" PG. 5

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Maxwell Larson

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"This has meaning. Pain" pg. 65
This means that her artwork has meaning and is a representation of her: trapped.

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¨ I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria¨ pg 7.  She was comparing all the kids to a stream because a stream just keeps going.

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"I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." page 7

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"I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." page 7

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she joins the group of people walking to the cafeteria. Carter Pickett