What technique?
Type/Analyze
What is it and modify
All about Mrs. Bolick
Is this on the SOL??
100
My heart is but a mouse.
Metaphor
100
Their teacher's arrival hit the students like a bucket of cold water to the face.
Simile-Surprised
100
The most beautiful dress ever made.
Hyperbole-your turn
100
What is Mrs. Bolick's favorite drink?
Diet Coke or coffee
100
Type of vocabulary and techniques that enhances details and engages the reader.
Figurative Language
200
Day was dying; the poplars fled,
Personification
200
The classroom was a circus!
Metaphor-Crazy
200
Doris the Dainty Dragon loved books.
Alleriteration-your turn
200
What is Mrs. Bolick's favorite candy?
Hershey with Almonds
200
This is the point to the whole paragraph, essay or article.
Main Idea
300
The white moth is a ghost ship

Drifting through

Metaphor
300
Desks screeched as they were pushed together by the students.


Onomatopoeia- loud noise
300
The night was as cold as marble.
Simile- your turn
300
What sport did Mrs. Bolick play in middle school, high school and college?
Field Hockey
300
These help us understand the Main Idea
Supporting details
400
The high and lonely hills 

Endure the darkening year.

Personification
400
The room was so quiet that you could hear a on drop.
Hyperbole-silence
400
Long ago in a sleepy Japanese village, their lived a dragon.
Personification- your turn
400
How many dogs does Mrs. Bolick have?
2
400
The events that take place in the story
Plot
500
Oh, praise me not the silent folk;

To me they only seem

Like leafless, bird abandoned oak


Simile
500
Waiting to be chosen, the dress seemed to shudder with excitement.
Personification-a dress can shudder, a person can.
500
The dress was a sparkling ruby.
Metaphor- your turn
500
What are Mrs. Bolick's kids names?
Lloyd and Christian
500
It's in nonfiction, it's the way the author writes.
Author's Organizational Patterns or text structures
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