Eagle Think Page

Grade 5 2006-2007

 

Moving from the ordinary to the poetic:

 

alliteration -- repeated beginning consonant sounds -- silver sun sets into the shining sea

assonance -- repeated vowel sounds -- sleepy eagle perches serenely on the east end of the canyon

 

simile -- compare two different things with like or as -- the golden sun drops into the sea like a lost earring

metaphor -- compare two different things -- the golden sun is a lost earring dropping into the sea

 

personification -- give life to an object -- the sun peeks through the pink clouds in the misty morning

 

 

vivid verb -- ACTION words -- the eagle zooms down into the water, snatches the salmon, and surges up towards the sky, floating to a feast on shore.

 

onomatopoeia -- word sounds like the sound -- the water gurgles around the salmon swinning in the brook

 

 

 

Ordinary-- Original phrase	Poetic-- your revised phrase	Literary Tool
The eagle in its nest is eating a fat salmon and is feeding the eaglets.	The eagle in its nest tears a fat salmon and spits bits into the eaglet's mouth.	tears - vivid verb; spits - vivid verb; spits bits -- assonance
The eagle yelled at the ducks for fighting, but the ducks don't listen and the eagle swoops down and makes them stop.	The eagle screamed at the ducks for fighting, but the ducks ignore him.  The eagle zoomed down and scatters the ducks away.	screamed = vivid verb; ignore = vivid verb; zoomed = vivid verb; scatters = vivid verbs and works like an 's' for assonance
The beautiful bald eagle is high up in the sky looking for fish to feed the little eagles saying, Feed me. Feed me.	The beautiful bald eagle is high up in the sky soaring with the sun searching for the shiny scales of the salmon to feed the little eaglets, saying, "Feed me. Feed me."
The eagle was flying through the dark blue sky in lightning in the summer.	The eagle flashed through the beautiful purple lightning on a hot summer night.
When the eagle blinks he always sees an enemy, but it's never an enemy, it's a prey.

 

TEST

 

Literary Tools

 

alliteration -- repeated beginning consonant sounds -- silver sun sets into the shining sea

assonance -- repeated vowel sounds -- sleepy eagle perches serenely on the east end of the canyon

 

simile -- compare two different things with like or as -- the golden sun drops into the sea like a lost earring

metaphor -- compare two different things -- the golden sun is a lost earring dropping into the sea

 

personification -- give life to an object -- the sun peeks through the pink clouds in the misty morning

 

 

vivid verb -- ACTION words -- the eagle zooms down into the water, snatches the salmon, and surges up towards the sky, floating to a feast on shore.

 

onomatopoeia -- word sounds like the sound -- the water gurgles around the salmon swinning in the brook

 

 

Ordinary-- Original phrase	Poetic-- your revised phrase	Literary Tool
The eagle in its nest is eating a fat salmon and is feeding the eaglets.	The eagle in its nest tears a fat salmon and spits bits into the eaglet's mouth.	tears - vivid verb; spits - vivid verb; spits bits -- assonance
The eagle yelled at the ducks for fighting, but the ducks don't listen and the eagle swoops down and makes them stop.	The eagle screamed at the ducks for fighting, but the ducks ignore him.  The eagle zoomed down and scatters the ducks away.	screamed = vivid verb; ignore = vivid verb; zoomed = vivid verb; scatters = vivid verbs and works like an 's' for assonance
The beautiful bald eagle is high up in the sky looking for fish to feed the little eagles saying, Feed me. Feed me.	The beautiful bald eagle is high up in the sky soaring with the sun searching for the shiny scales of the salmon to feed the little eaglets, saying, "Feed me. Feed me."
The eagle was flying through the dark blue sky in lightning in the summer.	The eagle flashed through the beautiful purple lightning on a hot summer night.
When the eagle blinks he always sees an enemy, but it's never an enemy, it's a prey.

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