Continued Blog Post-11/6

Short Story with 20 vocab words

11/6

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             On July 10^th, 2040 in Chicago IL on a warm summer day (setting) My crew and I decided to take a trip to outer space to make new discoveries. During the trip we saw a meteor it was so big, it was its own planet. (metaphor) Looking back at earth the view was decent (understatement). Five hours into our trip one of my crewmembers saw a unique planet that none of us recognized and decided to land on it and explore. After many hours exploring the planet we tried to get in our spaceship and leave, it had broken down. (Climax) I told my crew a billion times to check our spaceship before we left. (hyperbole) They are such great crewmembers.  (Sarcasm) My crew and I were stranded on an unknown planet for many days(stock settings) when over the horizon comes a spaceship (which was white) landed on the planet (parenthesis). If the spaceship had arrived sooner then I would not have panicked as much. (antecedent-consequence relationship) The spaceship abruptly landed on the mysterious planet “boom”. (onomatopoeia) A man and a woman exited the spaceship. The woman looked very similar to my mom, as if they were related. (simile) The man and the woman acted very strange when they got out of the spaceship. One of my crewmembers said all “humans are mortal”.  (syllogism) I didn’t believe my crewmember because they weren’t speaking normal words, they were saying things like “beep boop”. They waved us to come in there direction. I decided to make the man and the woman take a cloze test, to make sure they were human. The man and the woman both passed the cloze test and continued to tell us that they were trying to trick us. I was so annoyed that they would try and prank us considering the circumstances. I began by telling them this is not funny, using a very aggressive tone. The woman responded with a sassy attitude and told us they were the ones that had to come to the rescue. We finally got into their spaceship and headed home. The spaceship took off. (simple sentence) Finally we were back on earth. I have never felt happier. That day, the next day, the next week I never forgot my emotions I felt, had being stranded. (parallelism) I decided that I want to share my experience with other people so I decided to write a book. I asked my friend who is a professional writer for advice on how to write a book effectively. She simply told me to make sure theatmosphere is clear to set the stage for the rest of the book. To check that the pace is not two fast, so that the readers can understand each event thoroughly. Lastly she told me editing my book is crucial, for final observation, before delivery to check for appropriateness and missteps in the work. I could not be more exited to share my crazy story with the public!

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            After college, my life quickly seemed to be coming together. Upon graduation, I got a job as a spy for an agency that worked to undercover terrorists within the country. Not many people can say they landed a career like that at the young age of 26.  I was very excited when my boss called me in to his office. He explained that he had a new assignment for me. He told me that because of my age, I was the only one who could complete this assignment. By the connotation of his words, I lost my excitement and quickly became anxious. What could this new mission possibly entail? I was to impersonate a high school student in order to determine if there was a terrorist within the school. I immediately thought that my boss had become the antagonist.  Had he just given me this assignment knowing that I would fail? If I failed this assignment I would lose my job. My life was turning from a perfect fairy tale to a mystery (genre).  This mission (which was quickly taking over my life) starts tomorrow (parenthesis). I woke up the next morning with so many thoughts on my mid. How would I possibly fit in? I’m (contraction) an adult impersonating a high school student.  So I decided to be a high school student, a senior, named Sam Smith (alliteration).  Not only did I have to worry about being a student, I also needed to gather evidence to show that there is a terrorist within the school. Wow! This was going to be hard (onomatopoeia).  I felt like I was an actor and the entire school was my audience.  I arrive to school that day in a beat up pick up truck, hoping to blend in with a typical high school car. Before stepping out of the car, I said to myself “O Jesus please get me through this” (apostrophe). I need to complete this mission for my job, my job is not just to complete this mission. (antimetabole).  This mission is to impersonate a student, find the terrorist, to maintain my career (asyndeton).  As I walk through the parking lot, my final thoughts are all high school students are dumb, they will not realize I am an agent (generalization).  The door to the school opened and my mission began… (ellipses).  From my point of view, no one knew that I was an adult. My haircut, backpack, and khaki pants seemed to disguise my identity quite well.  Once I realized that I had passed the first test, I knew I could find the terrorist. I would soon be known as Sam the Spy (epithet).  I immediately went to the bathroom knowing that is where most high school students write threats. Sure enough, on the stall was written a bomb threat. I had found my terrorist. Now I just needed to identify who it was.  I knew I was about to commit the act of detaining the terrorist. After using the restroom, I returned to English class. I maintained my disguise and no one questioned that I was a transfer student.  The teacher, asked us to write a short story. As I was pondering what I a high school student would write about I noticed that the student next to me had familiar handwriting. I couldn’t determine what it was that I recognized. Then, I realized why. It was the same handwriting of the threat in the bathroom stall! (climax). I immediately blow my cover, and pull out handcuffs. I tackle him on the table while the other students gasp in fear and shock. After the agency takes him to be questioned, my boss tells me how great of a job I did. I made the whole team proud. My boss says, “the funny thing is, the terrorist was actually a 26 year old spy from a different country pretending to be a student.” (irony)