slippery fields,
Imagery
6 Matching Annotations
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the pheasants looked like unborn birdsglazed in egg white.
Simile. Comparing Unborn birds glazed in egg white
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The grassseeds looked like little yolks inside gelatin whites.
Simile because it is comparing grass seeds to yolks inside gelatin whites
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freezing rain.
Example of Imagery
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Some farmers went ice-skating down the gravel roads with clubs to harvest the pheasants thatsat helplessly in the roadside ditches. The boys went out into the freezing rain to find pheasantstoo. They saw dark spots along a fence. Pheasants, all right. Five or six of them. The boys slidtheir feet along slowly, trying not to break the ice that covered the snow. They slid up close to thepheasants. The pheasants pulled their heads down between their wings. They couldn't tell howeasy it was to see them huddled there.
The Boys and Men are trying to help and find more pheasants and despite the icy environment, they are still trying to help.
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One winter there was a freezing rain. How beautiful! people said when things outside started toshine with ice. But the freezing rain kept coming. Tree branches glistened like glass. Then brokelike glass. Ice thickened on the windows until everything outside blurred. Farmers moved theirlivestock into the barns, and most animals were safe. But not the pheasants. Their eyes froze shut.
Focused on setting and environment that the people and animals lived in.
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