Our Class PowerPoint on Figures of Speech Ms. Waldrops 4 th Grade January 2011.
Transcript of Our Class PowerPoint on Figures of Speech Ms. Waldrops 4 th Grade January 2011.
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.