Pen Commandments - 6 - Describe, Express, Preserve

What is one of the first types of writing he teaches his students to do?

• descriptive

• narrative

• persuasive

• research

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

You don't need an odorifics machine to ------- your reader, you can do it with words.

• tempt

• entertain

• seduce

• repel

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch." Describes which city?

• London

• Lagos

• Lamar

• Lampang

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Sensory language appeals to . . .

• the senses

• the linear thinker

• the abstract thinker

• copywriters

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use a thesaurus for variety, not

• vanity

• show

• smugness

• vainglory

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which of the following is NOT essential to descriptive writing?

• figurative language

• sensual words

• cliches

• experience

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

"It is like a wedding cake left out in the rain," is

• simlie

• metaphor

• describing a face

• a W.H. Auden quote

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

This general rule describes which kind of figurative language? "Rarely more than two in a sentence, three in a paragraph, five per page."

• sensory details

• simlies

• metaphors

• cliches

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Best way to develop an ear for cliches is

• reading

• experience

• Netflix

• ask you teacher

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The figurative language check involves universality, truth, and

• originality.

• humor.

• beauty.

• love.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6