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This use of repetition helps us see how / shows us that / allows us to better understand how Junior...

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“I draw because words are too unpredictable I draw because words are  too limited” chapter 1

Repeats the same phrase twice while also showing the difference between the two sentences.

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It was like his nerves were poking 3 inches out of his skin

this is a hyperbole because Because nobody nerves can poke out 3 inches

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"I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation." Chapter 2

He used the phrase "poor-ass" 3 times to describe the poverty in his family and the reservation.

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'' I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.''
This is a metaphor since in the quote he compares two unlike things without “like” or “as.”

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"And let me tell you, that old, old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb"

The book could not possibly hit with the force of a nuclear bomb ergo this is a Hyperbole

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I was hot mad volcano mad  tsunami mad

this a metaphor because He is compare his feeling to natural disasters

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“My head was so big that little indian skulls orbited around it.” This is a hyperbole because it's an exaggeration of his ‘enormous’ head.

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"Nothing
Nothing
Nothing"

He is really emphasizing the fact that his dog is sick and his poverty doenst let him save oscar.

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"We get beat up. At least once a month. Yep, I belong to the Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club." chapter 1

He makes a joke about how he gets beat up once a month, saying he is in the club (Likes its a club activity)

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“I was hot mad. Volcano mad. Tsunami mad”
this is personification because it is describing feelings with natural things that don't feel emotion.

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‘’And brain grease works inside the lobes like car grease works inside an engine.’’
This is a simile because it uses like/as to compare two unrelated/different things.

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"And sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner, but I know that, sooner or later, my parents will come bursting through the door with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken." Chapter 2

He used a metaphor to describe how he goes to bed without dinner. Sleep isn't something you eat for dinner so its a metaphor.

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"my brain was drowing in grease"
THis is personification because his brain cant drown

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“I draw because words are too unpredictable I draw because words are  too limited” chapter 1

Repeats the same phrase twice while also showing the difference between the two sentences.

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"I was hot mad. Volcano mad. Tsunami mad." Chapter 2

He repeated mad 3 time and it shows how mad he was about not going to the vet to make Oscar feel better.

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“I was hot mad. Volcano mad. Tsunami mad” personification because this shows his anger by showing a descirbing word like volcano

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"And hey, in a weird way, being hungry makes food taste better. There is nothing better than a chicken leg when you haven’t eaten for (approximately) eighteen-and-a-half hours. And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God."

He included "being hungry makes food taste better" to lighten up the mood by adding humor.

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“Indian Health Service also funded eyeglass purchases only once a year and offered one style: those ugly, thick, black plastic ones.”

This is sensory details since he's being ultra-specific and noting down everything from his experience to what he's receiving.  He's explaining what it looks like, and feels like,

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"My mother and father are the twin suns around which I orbit and my world would EXPLODE without them."

This is a hyperbole because he wouldn't actually explode without his parents.

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I wanted to punch my dad in the face. I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed. I wanted to punch him in the eye and make him blind. I wanted to kick him in the balls and make him pass out.

Repitition because he repeated the same type of line multiple times to show anger

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“I went to the Indian Health Service to get some teeth pulled so I could eat normally, not like some slobbering vulture.”

He's trying to be funny so as to say "laugh through the pain" and honestly, I can see why- he said he'll get TEN TEETH PULLED ON THE SAME DAY, and he's pretty young in this excerpt too.

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"It was like his nerves were poking out three inches from his skin."

He exaggerated how his pain tolerance is little since he feels a large amount of pain just by a slight touch.

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“I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny lifeboats”

He compares the world to dams and floods without using "like" or "as"

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"I wanted to punch my dad in the face. I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed. I wanted to punch him in the eye and make him blind. I wanted to kick him in the balls and make him pass out." Chapter 2.

He used the phrase "I wanted to" many times to emphasize on how he wanted to stop his dad from killing his pet.

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"Ten more than usual.

Ten more than normal.

Ten teeth past human."

This is repetition due to how he is repeating the same thing just with differences at the end (same beginning though)

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"He fought boys and girls
Men and Women
He fought stray dogs
Hell he fought the weather"

He's emphasizing the fact how his friend Rowdy fights a lot and fights everyone by using repetition and stating all the different people he fights.

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"like my brain was a giant French fry"

This is a simile since its essentially just a comparison using the term Like

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"Ten more than usual. Ten more than normal. Ten teeth past human."

this quote is reprpition because he said Ten more than 2 times and then he said ten 3 times

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"So I heard the boom of my father’s rifle when he shot my best friend.
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that." Chapter 2.

He used humor to emphasize on how his family value expense more than the life of their pet dog.

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"I was hot mad. volcano mad. tsunami mad."
This is a metaphor because he is comparing his feeling that he is having to natural disasters to show how he is feeling really mad.

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"Rowdy is the toughest kid on the rez. He is long and lean and strong like a snake."

Used "like" to compare how Rowdy is as strong as a "snake."

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"and let me tell you, that old, old, old decrepit geometry book hit me with the force of a nuclear bomb"

this is repetition because of how he repeats the word old to make a better image of the book.

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"that old, old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb"

he wasn't hit by the book but it shows how extreme his feeling were in that moment

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I wanted to hate him for his weakness.

I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty.

I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world.

This shows how Junior is angry and said how he hated for his dad weakness and his parents poverty

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"There was nothing I could do to save Oscar.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing."

He is repeating the word nothing trying to show that he was upset at the fact that he couldn't do anything to save his dog not even at least one thing

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"The Spokane Tribe holds their annual powwow celebration over the Labor Day weekend. This was the 127th annual one, and there would be singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter, fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts and crafts, and plenty of alcoholic brawling."

He describes in-dept about the events that happens on Labor Day and lists in detail what happens.

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"They stared hard. Like I was bad weather."

This illustrates a simile since he uses like to compare the staring of the other students to them looking at him like bad weather

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"His heart is as strong and as mean as a snake too". This is a simile because he compares things using the word as.

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After Oscar Died i was so depressed that i thought about crawling into a hole and disappearing forever

He is not actually going to crawl into a hole and
stay there forever

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“Hydromatic.”

“Hydrocarbon.”

“Hydrocrack.”

“Hydrodynamic.”

“Hydroelectric.”

“Hydro-and-Low.”

“Hydro-and-Seek.”

the triplets were repeating the word hydro to show that his brain disorder was big or something.

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"Well, at fourteen years old, it’s not like he runs around biting women’s breasts, but he does punch and kick and spit."

He used humor to emphasize on how Rowdy fights a lot even after being a toddler.

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There is nothing better than a chicken leg when you haven't eaten for eighteen and a half hours and Believe me a good piece of chicken can make any body believe in the existence of god

there is no way that piece of chicken
can make you believe god

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Gabe

“ My head was so big that little indian heads orbited around it”
He is exaggerating how big his head is

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"Rowdy is the toughest kid on the rez. He is strong and lean like a snake."

This is a simile since he's comparing Rowdy to a snake, using like/as. This use of a simile allows us to better understand that Junior chooses his words carefully, but doesn't make it too complex. (Complex as in something like ''I like pie'' into "i very much enjoy pie because it is very delicious even though it isn't 3.1415926535897932384626"

*yes i know that much of pi from memory somehow- dont ask

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"He fought boys and girls.
Men and women.

He fought stray dogs.

Hell, he fought the weather.

He’d throw wild punches at rain.

Honestly." Chapter 3

He used the word "He.." to emphasize on the variety of things that he would express his anger on.

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So she was all white on white on white, like the most perfect kind of vanilla dessert cake you’ve ever seen.

comparing penelope to a vanilla dessert using "like"

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"I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation."

Junior keaped saying poor-ass

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Naked woman + right hand = happy happy joy joy
Yep, that’s right, I admit that I masturbate.

I’m proud of it.

I’m good at it.

I’m ambidextrous.

If there were a Professional Masturbators League, I’d get drafted number one and make millions of dollars.

And maybe you’re thinking, “Well, you really shouldn’t be talking about masturbation in public.”

Well, tough, I’m going to talk about it because EVERYBODY does it. And EVERYBODY likes it.

And if God hadn’t wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn’t have given us thumbs.

So I thank God for my thumbs.

He talks about how he likes masturbating and how he is good at it

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Nothing.

Nothing.

he uses nothing 3 times because he says there was nothing he could do to save his dog oscar

Nothing

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"Because I didn’t have money for gas, and because I couldn’t have driven the car if I wanted to, and because I didn’t want to double date, I told Penelope I’d meet her at the gym for the dance. She wasn’t too happy about that."

because because because

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“Hydromatic.”

“Hydrocarbon.”

“Hydrocrack.”

“Hydrodynamic.”

“Hydroelectric.”

“Hydro-and-Low.”

“Hydro-and-Seek.”
This is repetition due to how the same stem of a word Hydro is repeated constantly throughout the qoute

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"my brain was drowning in grease"

This  is personification because his brain cant drown

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"If those Andruss brothers had punched a hole in the aquarium of my skull, I might have flooded out the entire powwow."

He exaggerated the large amount of liquid in his brain by saying that it would "flood" the the "powwow."

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"...no place more isolated than my reservation which is located approximately 1 million miles north of Important and 2 billion miles west of Happy."

He is making a joke out of how his home is not that great of or a happy place.

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There was nothing I could do to save Oscar.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.
this is reptition because it has the word nothing repeating to give suspence and impornance

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"like my brain was a giant French fry"

he is making a joke about his brain

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"I like the sound of Rowdy’s laughter. I don’t hear it very often, but it’s always sort of this avalanche of ha-ha and ho-ho and hee-hee."

He used onomatopoeia to describe how Rowdy laughs by using "ha-ha", "ho-ho", and "hee-hee".

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"He is a weird old coot" Chapter 4.

He used a metaphor to compare Mr P's weirdness as a coot.

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"It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors." Chapter 4.

He used "like" to compare the cottages - that his teachers work in - as "prison-work farms."

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"One million miles north of important and two billion miles west of happy."

This is a metaphor because he used distance as a comparison to his reservation, basically saying that it is irrelevant.

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"If those Andruss brothers had punched a hole in the aquarium of my skull, I might have flooded out the entire powwow."

Junior is saying that if the Andruss brothers hit his head he flooded out a entire powwow because of how weak his skull is.

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I could smell his breath.

Onions and garlic and hamburger and shame and pain.

He is going into depth about the smell of his breath

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"Some of our teachers make us eat birdseed so we’ll feel closer to the earth, and other teachers hate birds because they are supposedly minions of the Devil. It is like being taught by Jekyll and Hyde." Chapter 4.

He used "like" to compare how his teachers has different opinion to Jekyll and Hyde who has great differences.