Writer's Effect Task

Which technique has been used here?
"The water... has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."

• Adverbs
• Adjectives
• Onomatopoeias
• Similes

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the effect of the adjectives in the quote?
"The water... has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."

• They help the reader to follow where the water is running to.
• They create a dark and ominous mood.
• They create a vivid image of a peaceful and bright natural environment.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which technique has been used in the quote?
"...Willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding..."

• Metaphor / personification
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the effect of the technique used in the quote?
"...Willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding..."

• The use of carrying debris and winter's flooding show that the leaves carry lots of things with them. 
• The use of carrying debris and winter's flooding show that  Steinbeck loves nature and the outdoors.
• The use of carrying debris and winter's flooding show that, although the description of nature is bright and warm, it has not always been that way.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A descriptive technique that compares two things saying they are similar, using 'like' or 'as'.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A connotation is...

• What it is
• What something suggests / brings to mind
• A description of the thing
• A way to describe

Personification is...

• Giving something that's not human human features
• Describing a human
• Describing something like an animal
• Taking a person's features to describe another person

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Imagery is...

• Persuading the reader to feel the same as you
• Using adjectives only
• Creating a picture in the reader's mind
• Using figurative language only

The phrase “ an eerie ghost ship of an iceberg “ effectively shows how...

• Excited the narrator was

• How scared the narrator was

• nonchalant

What are the connotations of the word “loomed closer”?

• Inching forward in a threatening way

• Standing still

• Huge and scary