Our Class PowerPoint on Figures of Speech

Ms. Waldrop’s 4th Grade January 2011

Where the Red Fern Grows

BY: KATHLEEN

“They’ll never bother you unless they are wounded or cornered, but if they are you had better look out.”

SimileBy Sophia

Like a cat in a corn crib, she sneaked in from behind and sank her needle-sharp teeth in the coon’s back.

With the new work I was doing, helping Papa, it just kind of burned itself down and left a big sore on my heart.

By: Richard

HYPERBOLE

By: Anna

I had seen the time when an old hound like that had given his life so I might live.

Foreshadowing

It crackled and

popped.

OnomatopoeiaBy: Robe

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SimilesBy: Rachel

His tail was as big as a wet corncob and every hair on his small body was sticking straight up.

Hyperboleby: Mary Margaret

By the time I had memorized the ad, I was seeing dogs, hearing dogs, and even feeling them.

IdiomBy Henry

By the road it was thirty-two miles, but as the crow flies, it was only twenty miles. I went as the crow flies straight through the hills.

SimileBy Ryann

The bright shiny star on his vest looked as big as a bucket.

HyperboleBy: Greer

I’m sure my feet never touched the ground as I flew around the building.

Simileby: Tess

My heart stared acting like a drunk grasshopper.

PersonificationBy: Holly

His voice seemed to bore it’s way through the pillow and ring in my ears.

HyperboleBy Will

“Why, Grandpa,” I said, “you couldn’t catch a coon in a jillion years with that thing!”

SimileBy: Eli

Yes, it was all there like a large puzzle.

Personification by:Kyndall

A big grinning Ozark moon had the countryside bathed in a soft yellow glow.

Simile – MetaphorBy: Kimsey

The bell-like tones of her voice made shivers run up and down my spine.

MetaphorBy Colton

“If that tree takes a notion to fall, it’ll mash you flatter than a tadpole’s tail.”

Simile by Lane

White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight by his churning feet, gleamed like thousands of tiny white stars.