academic vocabulary examples
using books,movies,and televison shows.
style
well, after dinner Friday, we was laying around in the grass
mood
for I wasn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault. not if I could help it.
narration
I started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark
metaphor
thunder went rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky
sound devices
and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky
hyperbole
the shot heard 'round the world
flashback
once I had $14, but I took to speculating, and got busted out
detail
it would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would trash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby.
simile
rumbling. grumbling, tumbling down the sky towards the underside of the world, like rolling empty barrel down stairs.
irony
pretty soon he gapped, and stretched himself, and have off the blankets and it was Mrs. Watson's Jim!