"Bullets flew past him with evil little snaps and snickers as they cut the air."
What is personification?
100
"It was like a blade cutting grain. He heard the bullets hitting the men..."
What is a simile?
100
"If I don't run away I'll be there like a broken doll."
What is a simile?
100
"They made their way-sleeping like lords and eating like kings.."
What is a simile?
100
"They don't let me go fight the rebels and I might pull foot and leave..."
What is an idiom?
200
"...he raised his rifle and then the whole world had come at him."
What is a hyperbole?
200
"..could not stop himself from running unitl he was there, in the trees, a large maple at his back, and finally sucking air until his lungs seemed to be on fire..."
What is a metaphor?
200
"All those petticoats flying and the carriages rocking along as they found that Rebel shells did not care if you were a soldier or a civilian."
What is personification?
200
"You don't know as much as a slick-eared calf."
What is an idiom?
200
"Well ain't you one to take on airs."
What is an idiom?
300
"Somebody screamed over the sound of the gunfire, and the man next to Charley turned to the rear and began walking away as calm as if he was going for a stroll in the park..."
What is a simile?
300
"Many of the men crouched as they moved, as if in a heavy rain..."
What is a simile?
300
"The thought of a pie was too much and he spent the money for one of them..."
What is an idiom?
300
"...it is difficult to say how far he would have gone..."
What is an idiom?
300
"...those shirts were as hot as original sin..."
What is a simile?
400
"Bullets filled the air. Charley heard them going past his ears like horizontal hail."
What is a simile?
400
"But he did not know this yet and the sergeant's order made him so afraid it was as if a shaft had gone through him, had stopped his heart."
What is a simile?
400
"There was too much, a world too much to say."
What is an idiom?
400
"... the rebels cut their numbers at least in half..."
What is an idiom?
400
"You can use the money and I won't be under your feet all the time..."
What is an idiom?
500
"He thought that he would remember the train ride forever?"
What is a hyperbole?
500
"Except that yesterday there were congressmen and their families on the hills, come out from Washington in buggies to picnic and watch the battle, and hadn't they got more than they bargained for?"
What is an idiom?
500
They drilled and cleaned and cleaned and drilled and were given a new army commander named McClellan that many of the men, Charley included, held in high regard.."
What is an idiom?
500
"He was out of himself, beside himself, an animal..."
What is an idiom?
500
"They had uniforms on, red flannel shirts, so he knew they were all Minnesota men, but the dead all looked alike. Broken. Like broken toys or dolls."