Author's Craft

Define Author's Craft.

• Citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

• An activity involving skill in making things by hand like a boat or a ship.

• Reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

• How the author intentionally uses literary devices and narrative elements to tell a story, persuade, or inform an audience.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.6

What are the five categories of craft?

• Key Ideas, Details, Explicit Information, Implicit Information, Making Inferences,

• Word Craft, Literary Craft, Structural Craft, Audible Craft, Visual Craft

• Preview, Question, Predict, Infer, Connect

• Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Proofreading, Publishing

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2A

Select all that apply. Which of the following are specified as Word Craft techniques?

• Imagery

• Details

• Word Choice

• Vivid Verbs

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

What list of terms are classified as figurative language?

• Smell, Hear, See, Touch, Taste

• Soft Sounds, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Cadence, Rhythm

• Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion

• Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Circle, Oval

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which is the following is another way to say Visual Craft?

• Textual Evidence

• Text-based Writing

• Text Structures

• Text Features

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

True or False: Is 'white space' categorized as a Visual Craft?

• True

• False

True or False: Is 'line space' categorized as Visual Craft?

• True

• False

Select all that apply. What are the elements of an author's style?

• Voice

• Simile

• Syntax

• Word Choice

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

Define Syntax.

• Thoughtful, artful placement of a text on a page.

• The way the words are purposefully put together.

• Language that's noticed without even seeing the print because of the sound it creates.

• The organization and structure of a text.

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D