Review of Informative Text

Review of Informative Text

Poll

How are you?

• Amazing!

• Pretty good

• Okay

• I've been better

Author's Craft

Let's review some of the tools that writers use in order to be clear and engaging

Multiple Choice

These are part of the rhetorical situation

• metaphor and simile

• audience and purpose

• paper and pencil

Rhetorical Situation!

• Audience

• Purpose

Audience

• Who the writer is addressing?

• Then you consider what your reader already knows and what you want them to know

Audience

If I was writing about education, I would include different information if my audience was teachers than if my audience was parents.

Purpose

• Why do you want to explain this topic to this audience?

Purpose if I was writing about education

• For teachers: To explain how to use a new teaching strategy in the classroom

• For parents: To explain why we use a certain strategy in the classroom

Language and Style

• Diction: Word choice

• Syntax: Word order/sentence structure

• Figurative Language: language that is not intended to be taken literally. This includes simile, metaphor, allusion, hyperbole, and personification.

• Imagery: literal or figurative language that appeals to the senses (aka sensory language!)

Multiple Choice

Diction is

• word choice

• metaphor

• purpose

Multiple Choice

Allusion is

• a type of metaphor

• repeating the beginning sound of words

• referring to a person, event or things outside of the text

Evidence

• Details and examples

• Research and expert opinion

• Data and statistics

• Personal experience (anecdotes)

Open Ended

A question I have is