Author's Style of Writing

The listeners, viewers or readers of a work are called the:

• Sentence fluency

• Word Choice

• Audience

• Tone

Tone is mainly about the feelings of the...

• Audience

• Author

• Characters

• No one

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

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.

In the line below, what kind of technique is the author using to create his/her style?
"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 technique is the author 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
• sentence length

In the line below, what technique is the author 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 technique is the author using in order to create his/her style?
"As he looked through the glass, he saw a wall of ice glide by."

• imagery
• hyperbole
• tone
• puntuation

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor