Lesson 4 - Oral Practice to Use with Response Cards Metaphor, Simile, or Personification

This poem is a good example of ___________. Personification

The Wind
The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and
Kicked the withered leaves about
And thumped the branches with his hand
And said hed kill and kill and kill
And so he will and so he will.
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The wind whispered to them as they ran through the woods.

Big trees fell like toothpicks when Paul Bunyan swung his axe.
The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves
The heat ripped the breath from her lungs.
Babe was a two-ton bundle of blue dynamite.
The sun stretches its warmth across the land.
Babes hoof beats were thunder resounding through the hills.
As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath,
This class is like a three-ring circus!
9. The giants steps were thunder as he ran toward jack.
10. The darkness wrapped its arms around me.
11. The leaves danced in the wind.
12. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.
13. I feel like a limp dishrag.
14. Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
15. The chair danced as the baby bounced to and fro.
16. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.
17. The cruel wind tore off the roof of the house.
18. No one invites Harold to parties because hes a wet blanket.
19. The dish ran away with the spoon.
20. The train stopped to feed its tanks.
21. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dogs bath.
22. Two sunflowers arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun.
23. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

Lesson 6 - Oral Practice to Use with Response Cards Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, or Repetit
This poem is a good example of ___________. Onomatopoeia
The rusty spigot sputters, utters a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider; slash, splatters, scatters, spurts,
finally stops sputtering and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.
By Eve Merriam
This poem is a good example of ___________. Repetition
I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.
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George ate so many doughnuts, we had to widen the front doorway and roll him through the doo
The sun sizzled the swimmers skin.
Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and artichokes.
Repetition Will Get your Message Across.
Repetition Will Get your Message Across.
Repetition Will Get your Message Across.
5. The locomotive chugged down the rickety track.
6. I could sleep for a year.
7. This box weighs a ton.
8. Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn....
9. The arrow whistled in the still air. (Note: could also be personification)
10. And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
11. Puny puma pit their skills against zebras.
12. The wild wind whistled and wailed. (Note: could also be alliteration)
13. The soldiers snapped to attention.
14. Ive told you a million times not to exaggerate.
15. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall figh
growing confidence.
16. Little leaping lizards lay lazily on a log.
17. His voice droned on monotonously.
18. Your mother is so small she does chin-ups on the curb.
19. Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for Hanukkah.
20. Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is
a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of
injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and
justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his
lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama
little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as
sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

21. Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves.

22. The oven was so hot, the cookies had a nuclear reaction, and consequently exploded.
23. Repetition is one of the most effective strategies to get people to remember your message use
it, use it.