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RAYMOND’S RUN

RAYMOND’S RUN. LITERARY TERMS. Designed by Rose Johnson. “The kids call me Mercury cause I’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood.”. allusion. “I’ll high-prance down 34 th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight…”. simile.

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RAYMOND’S RUN

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  1. RAYMOND’S RUN LITERARY TERMS Designed by Rose Johnson

  2. “The kids call me Mercury cause I’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood.” allusion

  3. “I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight…” simile

  4. Squeaky refers to Cynthia Proctor: “Or like last week when she won the spelling bee for the millionth time.” hyperbole

  5. Squeaky refers to Cynthia’s pretending to just sit down at the piano and is able to play difficult pieces without even practicing. “A regular prodigy. I could just kill people like that.” hyperbole

  6. “So they are steady coming up Broadway and I see right away that it’s going to be one of those Dodge City scenes cause the street ain’t that big and they’re close to the buildings just as we are.” allusion

  7. “Then here comes Mr. Pearson with his clipboard and his cards and pencils and whistles and safety pins and 50 million other things he’s always dropping all over the place with his clumy self.” hyperbole

  8. Squeaky is referring to Mr. Pearson as he looks around for the new girl, Gretchen at the races. “He looks around for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.” simile

  9. Mr. Pearson tells Squeaky who he thinks might win the races. He is referring to Gretchen. “That new girl will give you a run for your money.” idiom

  10. “I get lighter and lighter until I’m flying over the beach again, getting blown through the sky like a feather that weighs nothing at all” simile

  11. “In first place…the man on the speaker is clear as a bell now.” simile

  12. “And he surely knows how to breathe in counts of seven cause he’s always doing it at the dinner table,which drives my brother George up the wall.” idiom

  13. Squeaky describes her routine of preparing for the race by remembering the great times of living in the country. “And there’s always the smell of apples, just like in the country when I was little and used to think I was a choo-choo train, running through the fields of corn and chugging up the hill to the orchard. onomatopoeia

  14. “…and the whole world is quiet except for the crunch as I zoom over the gravel in the track.” onomatopoeia

  15. Squeaky refers to listening to the judges determine the winner of the race. “I can hear old Beanstalk arguing with the man on the loudspeaker and then a few others running their mouths about what the stopwatches say.” allusion idiom

  16. “Then I hear Raymond yanking at the fence to call me and I wave to shush him, but he keeps rattling the fence like a gorilla in a cage like in them gorilla movies, but then like a dancer or something he starts climbing up nice and easy but very fast.” simile

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