Ransom of Red Chief homework help please!!

Well, I remember how to do most of these things from English class back from 8th grade.

Similes are like comparing two things to each other. For an example, using 'like' or 'as', like in this sentence: "He was breathing like a fish out of water"; or, "You are as smart as a bag of rocks." In fact, a lot of the time, similes are as easy to spot as a McDonalds in the midst of a shopping mall.

Metaphors, on the other hand, are tricky ropes to figure out. Metaphors aren't similes; they're more elaborate creatures, directly comparing two things in a more abstract sense. You might find it hard at first to find metaphors, as they blend in to the scenery of the sentence.

Alliterations aren't as awfully hard to find as the others. Actually, alliterations are amazingly apparent after ascertaining; alluring, to some degree.

 

And your allusion:

"By Geronimo!",(40)

I googled that, but it's fairly easy to pick out. If you've read the book (which I haven't, but in most decent books), you should be able to find some very easily. When you see X "was like" Y, there's your simile. Metaphors are the same, but built into the sentence. I could use a metaphor like these: "He was a rock", basically just nonliteral examples. Or a simile: "He was like a rock". Similes are often good for making the reader have a certain mental picture by picturing the same thing that you want them to, while metaphors usually refer to much bigger things, like life and death.

 

What book? I'm confused...you asked for "1 allusion, 3 similes, 4 metaphors, and 2 alliterations". You've been given examples of each. It's not hard to come up with the rest.

I can only assume that you mean you were given a book and you had to locate the aforementioned grammar types hidden within the text; in which case, how exactly do you expect us to help you when we don't have such text on hand?

FAIL...*****.

 

he did. now unless you want to provide us a copy of this text in which you are trying to find these, we can no longer help you. And seriously, dont try and complain and think that homework is hard. Wait for high school and college.

 

Sounds like freshman english to me.

 

Try 6th grade.

 

I did read the title and I had no clue what it was talking about. Ransom of Red Chief didn't immediately jump out at me as "My homework involves a book called 'Ransom of Red Chief' ". For all I knew it just could have been the name of your homework, or the action you were going to take if you couldn't finish it, or the name of your little sister; how the hell should I know when you mention nothing about a book in the title, or in the post.

Obviously I'm aware of it now that you have mentioned a book and I've bothered to read the title of this thread again. It still doesn't mean I have a copy of the thing lying around my house.

You know what, I'm bored, and I'm going to help you, but I suggest you actually start using your own brain cells once and a while, it seems you're not even activating them when asking for help.

I looked up the thing online and found the text. Link here, if anyone else is interested.

1 allusion:
-"By Geronimo!"

2 alliterations:
-"welter-weight"
-"Buffalo Bill"

3 similes:
-"flat as a flannel-cake"
-"a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear"
-"a sigh from Bill, like a horse gives out when you take his saddle off"

4 metaphors:
-"hair the colour of the cover of the magazine you buy at the news-stand when you want to catch a train"
-"it has not yet been discovered that the wolves have home away the tender lambkin from the fold"
-"this little he ewe lamb has somewhat got on my nerves too"
-"Do you think anybody will pay out money to get a little imp like that back home"