Interpreting Figures of Speech to Make Inferences
Reread the first section of the text again.
Use the Highlighting tool to mark any figures of speech
Raisman uses. Then answer the following questions using
the Notebook (13):
• What figures of speech does the author use?
• What can you infer based on these figures of
speech?
Fierce
by Aly Raisman (excerpt)
Chills of anticipation raced up my spine. Staring at the TV, 1
bounced up and down on the couch, so excited I could
hardly sit still. No matter how many times I watched the
tape, it felt like I was seeing it for the first time.
The crowd inside the Georgia Dome was on their feet and
already making a deafening amount of noise as the seven
American women filed into the arena to begin the 1996
Olympic gymnastics women's team final.
The excitement that greeted the US women's gymnastics
team as they marched briskly toward the uneven bars was
the most captivating thing I had ever seen. The air in the
arena was so supercharged with electricity that I could feel
it in my own living room, through the screen, six years
after the fact