1 The boy was sad.
His arms sat almost still by his side, shaking only slightly as he watched his friends laugh in the classroom. The corners of his mouth drooped and his lip quivered. He tried to choke back sobs but instead made a raspy, huffing sound that broke the silence in the quiet hallway.
2 The dog wanted to go for a walk.
3 It was cold outside
The gleaming sun shone down on the crystal clear ice that coated the frozen ground and sparkled on the fragile snowflakes as they fell, landing in small heaps that glittered in the sunlight. The trees that were once a shining emerald green now drooped with the piles of compacted snowfall that rest on its branches.
4 The student was bored.
5 The bedroom was a mess.
6 The garden was beautiful.
The blossoms on the delicate branch swayed in the quiet breeze and a bird in the nearby distance fluttered its feathers while chirping an upbeat tune. A second bird harmonized from a closer branch that had soft, white droplets of petals coating every inch of space on the smooth wood that stretched from the tree. The green, silky grass that coated every inch of the ground swayed and danced with the breeze that still encased the beautiful scene of the large, open garden.
I weaved across the vast lawn with fragile steps and the morning dew on the tips of the gleaming emerald blades of grass bounced to the ground, sparkling and shining in the glittery sunlight as they fell.
7 It was a stormy night.
8 The cake was delicious.
Select the right word of the four below to complete each example of a literary technique.
1. The girl was shaking like a leaf.
2. The boy slept like a log.
3. The children crept as quietly as mice.
4. The icicle shone like the sun
Quietly, shaking, slept, sun
Metaphors describe something by saying it is something else.
1. The sun was a flaming golf ball in the sky.
2. The bear was a furry giant
3. The teacher was an erupting volcano, exploding with lava.
4. Her hair was a silky blanket.
Giant, hair, flaming, erupting
Personification is giving an object human features or characteristics.
1. The wind whistled through the trees.
2. The daffodils nodded their yellow bonnets in the wind.
3. The refreshing pool called the holidaymakers.
4. The teapot danced on the shelves during the earthquake.
Yellow, teapot, called, whistled
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