Writing Techniques

In a text with a sequence text structure, the author

• describes a topic and its characteristics

• tells about events in the order they happened

• explains how things are similar and different

• describes a problem and then explains how someone solved it

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What writing technique shows what people say in a conversation and is marked with quotation marks?

• dialogue

• question and answer

• vivid verbs

• sensory details

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What are active verbs that paint a picture in your mind that usually have an -ed or -ing ending?

• nouns

• sensory details

• vivid verbs

• boring verbs

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What technique is described as slowing down the process and showing what happened in detail, like a play by play of the event?

• vivid verbs

• concrete nouns

• step by step description

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What technique includes the author intentionally trying to be funny and make the reader laugh?

• slowing the moment

• vivid verbs

• dialogue

• humor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What technique inludes describing using the 5 senses (How did something look? Taste? Smell? Feel? Sound?)

• sensory details

• vivid verbs

• humor

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What refers to how a story is written including use of writing techniues, style, voice and impact on reader?

• structure

• craft

• sunscreen

• beach ball

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is using language to compare one idea to another for added effect?

• dialogue

• step by step description

• vivid verbs

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a comparison using “like” or “as”?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a direct comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"?

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoiea

• vivid verbs

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D