DAFOREST techniques

This technique leaves an idea hanging in the reader's mind, causing them to think about what the text has asked. Also, engages the reader by addressing them.

What technique is this?

"When I was a child, my family went on a summer vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains every year. One year, my aunt saw a black bear while she was hiking. She was so terrified, she ended up sitting on a boulder for an hour just to make sure it had gotten far enough away from her. She still won't go hiking alone anywhere."

What technique is this?

(a)  

(a)   make the text seem well researched, authoritative and trustworthy to the reader.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.1.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

“Smoking is a filthy, selfish and costly habit.”

What technique is this?

• Rhetorical question

• Triplets

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

.......... .......... talks to the reader directly using pronouns such as “we” or “you”.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"My car is old and ugly, but it is reliable and runs great."

This technique is called antanagoge.

Choose its definition

• Simplifies

• Makes something smaller

• Turns a negative into a positive

• Exaggerates

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"Yes, this is going to be a lot of work. But it will be worth the effort because we will be a stronger, more sustainable company after we are finished."

What technique is this?

• Personification

• Emotive language

• Antanagoge

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"Lockdown will undoubtedly cause economic hardship, but it will save lives and finally control the pandemic."

What device is this?

• Contrast

• Antanagoge

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."

This device is called anaphora.

Choose its definition:

• Repetition in the middle of the sentence

• Repetition in the end of the sentence

• Repetition in the beginning of the sentence

• Repetition in general

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

What technique is this?

• Triplets

• Anagoge

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4