The listeners, viewers, or readers of a work.

• Sentence fluency

• Word Choice

• Audience

• Tone

What is one way that we can we make our sentences more complex and interesting?

• Make them longer.

• Make them shorter.

• Use combinations of long and short sentences.

• Add more conjunctions.

Mood is mainly about the feelings of the ....

• Author

• Audience

• Characters

• No one

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Tone is mainly about the feelings of the...

• Audience

• Author

• Characters

• No one

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When an author uses figurative language in their writing this is an example of what author's style technique?

• Word Choice

• Mood

• Tone

• Sentence fluency

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The definition of author's style is...

• a writer's unique way of communicating ideas using word choice, sentence structure, imagery, point of view, voice, and tone.
• a writer's attitude toward his or her subject such as serious, humorous, sarcastic, and respectful.
• giving human qualities to an animal, object, phenomenon, idea, or anything that is not specifically human.
• a form of language that is spoken in a particular region by people who live there.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

In the line below, which techniques is the author using to create his/her style? Choose all that apply.
"So far, so good. On duty at 10 o'clock...a few words about the ice problem with Lookout Reginald Lee, who shared the same watch...a few more words about the cold...but mostly just silence, as the two stared into the darkness."

• sentence length and punctuation
• imagery and tone
• point of view and voice
• word choice

In the line below, what is the main technique that the author is using to create his/her style?
"As he paced the deck, he noticed what he and his mates called 'Whiskers 'round the Light'--tiny splinters of ice in the air, fine as dust, that gave off myriads of bright colors whenever caught in the glow of the deck lights."

• imagery
• tone
• point of view
• mood

In the line below, what is the main technique that the author is using to create his/her style?
"Appleton felt hardly any shock at all, but she noticed an unpleasant ripping sound...like someone tearing a long, long strip of calico."

• imagery
• personification
• sentence length
• tone

In the line below, what is the main technique that the author is using in order to create his/her style?
"Visiting Wichita Falls in winter, the waterfalls are walls of ice."

• figurative language

• mood

• tone
• punctuation