Dialogue
"You make me angry!" yelled my sister
"Fine. I'll leave," I said.
"You make me angry!" yelled my sister.
Fine. I'll leave," I said.
During the first week of 5th grade, Mrs. Parker, our teacher, made the two tallest boy, Eric and Me, the cookie monitors.
Appositives
My phone vibrated five times before I snatched it from my bedside table and stuffed it into my pillowcase. Pulling the sheets over my head to block out the light from the window, I was drowning in thoughts: Should I pick up the phone?
IT used vivid verbs to create a picture of the action. The action words included vibrated, snatched, and stuffed.
Bom! There was a load explosion.
Onomatopoeia
"Don't be late" bill warned.
"Don't be late," Bill warned
I could smell Mama, crisp and starched, plumping my pillow.
Adjectives Out-of-Order
"Kaiya," my older sister whispered in the dark, "I don't think we're in Virginia anymore."
It was true, if not somewhat obvious. We'd passed the Virginia border yesterday, our whoops and hollers rising to the car roof once we reached Tennessee.
It uses dialog to created character talking. The dialog words included these words whispered and whoops.
His foot was as big as an elephant.
Simile
"I'm leaving now, said tom.
"I'm leaving now," said Tom.
His heart beating very fast, Harry stood listening to the chilly silence.
Absolutes
I liked being a mess. The desk that should have been clear so I could do my homework was always besieged with bowls of cereal and spoiled milk, old magazines, and post-it notes I had forgotten to remember. My floor was a vacuum in itself eating anything entering y room. It consumed sweater, stuffed animals, socks, shoes and lots more.
It tells the setting by describing the room. For example, it use's words that describe stuff to make a setting using words like old magazines, post-it notes on the desk, and telling us how messy the room is.
Tony Stark sparks science media.
Alliteration
Jhon said "I think you're wrong.
Jhon said, "I think your wrong."
The wind howled about the bus, and wipers sloshed heavily back and forth across the windshield, smearing the city in a red and yellow neon wetness.
Vivid Verbs
The golden sun shined on the dry, yellow field as we drove home today; which made it seem like a field of treasure and shining gems with a big lake of sapphire in the middle.
It tells about how the field and the lake look like to make a picture in your head through setting. It also uses words like golden, sun yellow, and even that the lake looks like a sapphire.
He said he was at least a hundred times smarter than Elon Musk.
Hyperbole
"Electronics are the wave of the future declared Clarissa "There's no doubt about it."
"Electronics are the wave of the future," declared Clarissa "There's no doubt about it."
Palms sweating, knees shaking, she stood on the edge of the cliff.
Absolutes
I rushed down the stairs skipping every other one. My feet up high and my hands shaking back and forth above my head. It didn't matter how fast I got there or where I was going for that matter but where I am now. I was moving, soaring nearly, my feet caressed the ground in a swift movement.
The action described used vivid verbs to make action throughout the story. For example some verbs were rushed and shaking.
When Tom told a joke there was a deafening silence.
Oxymoron