Tall Tale Nicknames
Five Fathoms Tall
Stormalong
"Being taller than the other boys, by about fifty feet or so, he was naturally the best hunter, fisherman, walker, runner, yeller, and mountain climber there was."
Paul Bunyan
Run
action verb
Person, place, thing, animal, or idea
noun
Who's classroom was our narrator in?
Mr. Lee
Steelmaker
Joe Magarac
and
Conjunction
is used in the place of a noun in a sentence.
pronoun
Where were the mother and daughter from that our narrator and dad meet at the rally?
Somalia
Frontier Fighter
Davy Crockett
"In between fighting and friendship-making, which amounted to the same thing, [he] learned how to be a regular keelboatman."
Mike Fink
John
Proper noun
joins or links single words or parts of a sentence together
conjunction
Langston Hughes
Rainbow-Walker
Johnny Appleseed
"I'm a natural steel driving man", he said. "And I am looking for a job."
John Henry
Yikes!
Interjection
A word that conveys a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. This part of speech can show location, timing, and/or direction.
Preposition
How old was the daughter when the war came and she was burned in a fire?
4 years old.
Sky-bright Axe
Paul Bunyan
"He had to sleep in an extra-large lifeboat because there wasn't a sailor's hammock half large enough to hold him."
Stormalong
was
state of being verb
describe a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Tells: How? When? Where? or To What Degree?
Adverb
Maine