SAD opener
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Brushstrokes
Dialogue
100

The room was dark and cold. It smelled like rotting food the room was also drafty. I could only here a small drip of a liquid.  

Setting

100

Snap, Crackle, Pop.

Onomatopoeia

100

She sells seashells by the seashore.

Alliteration

100

The poems we read in class were her expressions of love to Robert Browning, her husband.

Appositives

100

Don't be late Bill warned.

''Don't be late," Bill warned.

200

The room was bright and spacious. The room was in a 100-year-old New York City apartment building. The room was amazing.

Setting

200

Jumbo shrimp; definite maybe; deafening silence.


Oxymoron

200

I'm so hungary I could eat a horse.

Hyperbole

200

The school was a regular school, big and boring.

Adjectives Out of Order

200

I'm leaving now" said Tom.

"I'm leaving now," said Tom.

300

Bang the plate shattered. Crash the glasses broke. 

Action

300

My teddy bear gave me a hug.

Personification

300

It's raining cats and dogs

Idiom

300

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

Absolutes

300

"Sam, Tom said," let's leave.

"Sam," Tom said," let's leave."

400

Wish the wave washed over the sand. Swack the Pelicans chirp.   

Action

400

I'm as loud as a tea pot.

Simile

400

Her eyes are stars shining in the sky.

Metaphor 

400

I sprinted to my dad.

Vivid Verds

400

He said We'll discuss the story in our hour."

He said "We'll discuss the story in our hour."

500

The baker yelled "How der you steal my bread". The Kid screamed "How der you say that I bot this bread".

Dialogue

500

My sister's so tall she could be a sky scraper.

Hyperbole

500

She is busy as a bee.

Simile

500

The cat, cute and huggable, look so cute in the corner. 

Vivid Verb

500

The nerve" she said.

"The nerve," she said.