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Out of my mind Ella Garland (Idiom A phrase that has a meaning different…
Out of my mind Ella Garland
Alliteration
Repeated constant sounds at the beginning of words.
"
Big booming Beethoven
symphonies
blast.
" pg 10
"
Smell
of
spilled sour soy
milk." pg 5
"She
gobbled gigantic green
vitamin pills." pg 72
"
Spoon, slurp, swallow. Spoon, slurp, swallow.
" pg 80
"I wanted to tell Mom that I was
sorry she
was
so sad
and
so scared
." pg 75
She laughed so hard,
she snorted snot.
" pg.94
" This child's got
some serious smarts!
" pg.103
"
she
kept
singing some stupid
baby
song
pg.157
"
biddy-boddy-bowdee.
" pg.157
"
Dimwit Dimming.
" pg. 109
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like they are written.
" They
chattered
and
babbled."
pg 2
"Big
booming
Beethoven symphonies
blast
from her CD player all day long." pg 5
" The
whump
and
whoosh
of the furnace coming alive each morning." pg 5
"
Buh!
" pg 20
"Then a
screech.
" pg 35
"I
screeched
." pg 42
"It
squeaked
when you touched it." pg 42
"And then, unbelievably,
plop
!" pg 43
"
Buh!
" pg 54
"I
screeched.
" pg 54
"So I screamed and yelled and
shrieked
." pg 54
"I can say
"uh
" and
"ah
" pretty clearly, and ,if I concentrate sometimes I can squezze out a
"buh
" or a
"huh
"
Personification
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
"The
whump
and
whoosh
of the furnace coming alive each morning." pg 5
"The
stars are up there putting on a show
just for you, kid." pg 12
"Color brings life
and hope to these children." pg 40
"You're a
smart little cookie.
" pg 43
"I have
magic thumbs,
by the way. " pg 46
"The blue
fish will run away.
" pg 48
"He wants to
marry Miss Cumulus Cloud,
but
she's too soft and pretty to be bothered with such a scary guy
." pg 49
"So he
gets mad and makes storms,
" she told me. pg 49
"
Big old Nimbus up there--he's black and powerful
and can
blow all the other clouds out of the sky.
" pg 49
"Mom replied, her voice dangerous, and for the rest of these children." pg 57
"Mom restarted the video from the beginning, but somehow that yellow brick road had lost some of it's magic glow." pg 69-70
"And that's just plain crazy." pg 108
"Even though the weather has turned pretty chilly, I made sure mom put a really nice outfit on me." pg 117
"Mom has those daggers in her eyes--the sharp points she shoots at people say dumb things about me--but she stays quiet." pg 120
"I feel like the red stain on my blouse is screaming." pg 183
Hyperbole
A big exaggeration.
"Dad also has the
loudest, stinkiest farts in creation.
" pg 13
"Doctor Hugely, even though he had been to college for like
a million years
pg 22
"I've watched those things a
million times
." pg 4
"But it may as well been
a million miles away.
" pg 42
"I had
a million thoughts in my head,
but I couldn't them with anybody." pg 45
" I was watching something
i'd seen a million times
--
The Wizard of Oz."
pg 67
"I've seen commercials on television for the aquarium--it's supposed to have sharks and turtles and penguins and
a million other sea animals.
" pg 116
"This will
take a year to read
and understand." pg 133
"I'm going to
write down the names of every single fish
for you to learn." pg 116
Metaphor
Comparing two things or ideas without using like or as.
"Deep within me,
words pile in huge drifts
." pg. 1
"Purple oranges are just plain unusual and
so is she
". pg. 39
"
You're a smart little cookie
," Mrs. V. told me." pg. 43
"The
music was sounding orangey and yellowish
as I listened, and the faint whiff of lemons seemed to surround me. pg. 62
" When he set it on the floor in front of me,
out exploded a flash of wriggling gold fun.
" pg. 65
"Our
bathroom is painted ocean blue.
" pg. 83
"
Comparing my new chair to my old one
" pg. 90
"like comparing a
Mercedes to a skateboard
." pg. 90
" Our fifth-grade
teacher in room H-5 reminds me of a television grandmother.
" pg. 92
"I love the
jellyfish, which remind me of streams of shiny cloth
, and the lion-fish , which really do look a little like swimming lions." pg. 119
"
This child,"
she says to my dad, who is ambling over to us, "
Is an escape artist.
" pg. 173
"The next
two weeks passed in a whirlwind
." pg. 192
Simile
, a comparison between two things using like or as.
"Words have always swirled around me
like
snowflakes." pg. 1
"Who, I'm sure, felt
like
she got hit by a truck." pg. 22
"Words were
like
sweet liquid gifts." pg. 2
"I slide out of that wheelchair
like
a piece of wet spaghetti." pg. 19
"He yodels,
like
one of those Swiss people in a mountain-climbing commercial." pg. 34
"He takes a deep breath,
like
a swimmer coming up for air." pg.36
"If Mrs. V is, well,
like
a tree." pg.39
"I was on my back, stuck
like
a turtle." pg. 42
"she said in that voice that sounded
like
she was chewing gravel." pg. 44
"He's
like
you, sort of, isn't he?" pg. 45
"I guess it was supposed to look
like
something from under the sea, but I don't think there are any lakes or oceans that really have rocks that color." pg. 62
"I screeched and kicked and pointed
like
Godzilla was coming down the street." pg. 89
"Comparing my new chair to my old chair is
like
comparing a Mercades to a skateboard." pg. 90
Idiom
A phrase that has a meaning different than the dictionary definition.
"No she has a
spark
." pg. 23
"I guess the four square players think were all so
backward
that we don't care that we get treated like were invisible." pg. 28-29
"Melody is a child who can learn and will learn if she
sticks with me
!" pg. 41
"Melody can
be a handful
," pg. 41
'"Oh,
gag me
." pg. 41
"Mrs. V c
cracked up.
" pg.43
"Was
she nuts.
" pg.42
"It was
driving
me crazy." pg.45
"but she had to do the
mom thing
and double-check."
"That makes dad
crack up
." pg.82
"and we both
crack up
." pg.84
"I'm gonna
bust a gut.
" pg. 92
"It would be so
tight
to be able to do that." pg. 101
"Like she was trying to
catch the music and bring it to her
." pg. 95
"Some of them are really
sharp
." pg. 109
"Without a
crisp
white shirt." pg. 109
"
Hold your horses
." pg. 130