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__8th Graders: Click HERE for guidelines for Historical Fiction Research REPORT outline__

__7th Graders: Click HERE for guidelines for HIstorical Fiction Preface (for 4th graders)__

__Both 7th and 8th Graders: Click HERE to learn how to list your SOURCES in MLA format__ _

**8th Graders' Historical Fiction Similes and Metaphors:**
To Bill, the roar of the crowd was the sound of canon fire in battle: chaotic, scary, out of control. The palm trees were people praying to God for answers. April's braided hair was a lynch rope hanging down her back. Victor's love for his father was like a subject's love for a king: obedient. John felt as angry as an Indian who has watched his home and lands be destroyed by the white man. For Teresa, her voodoo religion suddenly seemed as useless as a hoe without a blade.

**7th Graders' Historical Fiction Similes and Metaphors:**
The gunshot sound was as loud as a whip on a slave's back. Kinkoednink's heartbeat was his ancestor's drums. Elizabeth felt like Noach must have felt when the floods came and he was alone. Balland cried, and his tears were the drops of blood that fell from his father's torn-up back. The separation was a breath of fresh, cool air: free. When Henry fired at his brother, for an instant the musket ball -- in slow motion -- was the ball he and his brother had played with as children. The battlefield was a graveyard.

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