Sad Openers
Dialogue
Brushstrokes
Figurative Language
100

Has the wind hit the sand, and the palm trees blew through the wind. The ocean waves smashing into the beach, the seagulls fly around the beach with the sky without a cloud in miles. 

Setting

100

Please said the man. Help 

"Please, help," said the man. 

100

The pavilion was a simple city, long and rectangular. 

Adjectives out-of-order

100

He is busy as a bee. 

Simile

200

Boom! Superman flashes through the wall against The Joker. He lifts up a car and throws it through the sky. 

Action

200

"Hey" can you help me"? said the child.  

"Hey, can you help me?" said the child. 

200

During the first week of fourth grade, Mrs. Parker, our teacher, mad ethe two tallest boys Eric and me, the cookie monitors. 

Appositives

200

I am so fast, I can beat a car!

Hyperbole


300

The hurricane hits the kingdom of Astarita. With great force, destroying the capital city and the beautiful trees.  

Setting

300

"What! said Leo. 

"What!" said Leo. 

300

His heart beating very fast, Harry stood listening to the chilly silence. 

Absolutes 

300

Break a leg! 

Idiom

400

"Hey where were you?" said Leo. 

Dialogue

400

"How did you do that!' said the teacher. 

"How did you do that!" said the teacher.  

400

The wind howled the bus, and the wipers sloshed heavily back and forth across the windshield, smearing the city in a red and yellow neon wetness.  

Vivid Verbs 

400
POW!!
Onomatopoeia 
500

The train rushed towards the baby. That cried and cried.  

Action

500

"What can I do then" said the teenager. 

"What can I do then," said the teenager

500

The poems the students made, Harrison and Jared, made the teacher cry.  

Appositives

500

She sells seashells by the seashore. 

Alliteration