Difference between Narrative and Descriptive Essays

A tool that makes your descriptive essay more interesting by comparing two items using 'like' or 'as' is called:

• A simile

• A metaphor

• Allegory

Which of these is an example of repetition for effect?

• She wanted to go home. She wanted to forget this day. She wanted to pretend that she had never met him.

• I went to the store and the store was busy so I left the store and decided to come back later.

• This kept happening to me again and again.

• None of the above.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Is this a simile or a metaphor?

He was my rock, so strong and supportive.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is narrative writing?

• A paper done with research and facts

• A story about myself

• A true story written about another person

• Fictional story with a problem, events, and a solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A more descriptive word for "happy" is....

• great

• gleeful

• sad

• nice

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What do you know about descriptive writing?

• to tell something

• to entertain reader

• to retell something

• to describe something

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What tenses are mostly used in descriptive essay?

• Past tense

• Present tense

• Past Continuous

• Future tense

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Adjective

• Go

• Learn

• Diligent

• Invite

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Verb

• Handsome

• Sweetness

• Talkative

• Vary

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is a descriptive essay

• asks the student to describe something—object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation

• includes the five senses

• encourages student to write about a personal experience

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D