writer's effect Currting

What is the writer's effect?

• The effect on the reader created by an author's words.

• To express the way the reader feels.

• To convey a scene, idea, or emotion.

• To use a fancy way to complicate things.

How should you start writing your writer's effect answer?

• Start writing all your word choices.

• just think about it your teacher will know.

• Write the overview.

Which word should be used while starting to describe a word or a phrase?

• The phrase/word ... suggests...

• The phrase/word ... explains ...

• The phrase/word ... conveys ...

• The phrase/word ... says ...

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

• Adverbs

• Onomatopoeias

• Adjectives

• Similes

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

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, although the description of nature is bright and warm, it has not always been that way.

• The use of carrying debris and winter's flooding show that  Steinbeck loves nature and the outdoors.

What is the effect of the techniques 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."

• The use of deep and crisp show that the leaves are like crisps. The use of skittering shows how scared the lizard is.

• The use of deep and crisp show that the leaves are dry and untouched. The use of skittering shows the speedy and nervous movement of the lizard as it moves through the leaves.

• The use of deep and crisp show that nature is scary. The use of skittering shows the men arriving.

"They plan to kill General  Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103).  What is the tone of the dialogue? 

• informal

• happy

• serious

• optomistic

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).  What is the mood of the passage?

• suspenseful

• sorrowful

• romantic

• joyful

What type of imagery is this? The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight

• Touch 

• Taste

• Sound