Writer's Effect

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.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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 is "sensory language"?

• language that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create an image or description.
• language that has been censored (censorship)
• language that is not very descriptive
• language that is unfamiliar to the reader

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Identify the mood of the following sentence:
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

• fanciful
• suspenseful
• melancholy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the tone of the following sentence?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

• angry
• witty
• suspicious

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What techniques have been used here?
"On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them."

• Similes and adverb
• Verbs and metaphor
• Adjectives and onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Hyperbole is...

• Speech between characters in a text

• Language that 'paints a picture' in the reader's mind

• Exaggeration for effect

• Language that shows the 'everyday' way people might speak

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3