All About Bill
The best cowboy who ever lived was from here
What is Texas?
"GOO-goo" means this in coyote
What is "Nice to meet you"?
The cowpoke argues Bill was not a varmint for this reason
What is Bill had no tail?
"Bill teethed on horseshoes" is an example of this part of a tall tale
What is an exaggeration
He was tough as a pine knot is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
Bill left his family and went to live with the coyotes because this had happened to him.
What is that he fell off the family's wagon?
This is how Pecos Bill was separated from his family
What is he fell off the wagon?
These was one reason the cowpoke made fun of Pecos Bill
What is he never shaved or combed his hair?
This was the Texans' explanation for flashes of light in the night sky.
What was that Bill and Sue were riding shooting stars?
All fifteen kids going at one another tooth and nail is a good example of this.
What is an idiom?
Bill and his gang lassoed water from the Gulf of Mexico to stop this.
What was the worse drought in Texas history?
When Bill's horse broke its ankle, Bill was forced to do this.
What is drape his horse around his neck?
These characters could all be described as mean and mangy.
Who were the Hell's Gate Gang?
After his horse had been badly injured, Bill ended up riding this on his way to Hell's Gate Canyon.
What was a mountain lion?
Bill fell out of the wagon and landed, kerplop is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is Ah-hooo?
When a fifty-foot rattlesnake reared up it ugly head at him, Bill was forced to do this.
What was punch him and knock him cross-eyed?
You could tell the Hell's Gate Gang members were scared when they did this.
What was when their knees knock?
Once Bill settled in with the Hell's Gate Gang and formed a ranch, he used this are as a corral.
What was New Mexico?
The mighty cyclone bucked, arched, and screamed, is a great example of this.
What is personification?
It was the number of years Pecos Bill was part of the coyote pack.
What was 17 years?
Because the parched grass was catching fire everywhere around Bill's ranch, he solved this problem by doing this.
What was lasso water from the Gulf of Mexico?
Pecos Bill met the woman of his dreams, Slue-foot-Sue when she crossed his path riding this.
What was a very large catfish?
What were barbed wire and dynamite?
Bill's rope was exactly as long as the equator is a good example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?