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

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

• dialogue

• question and answer

• vivid verbs

• sensory details

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

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

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

• slowing the moment

• vivid verbs

• dialogue

• humor

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

• sensory details

• vivid verbs

• humor

• dialogue

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

• structure

• craft

• sunscreen

• beach ball

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

• dialogue

• step by step description

• vivid verbs

• figurative language

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

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

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

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoiea

• vivid verbs