Week 1 Review and Summarize

What is personification?

• Giving human traits to animals

• Giving human traits to objects or ideas

• Making objects talk

• Turning people into animals

How does using strong adjectives and verbs help in writing?

• It makes the story shorter

• It makes the story more colorful and engaging

• It makes the story longer

• It makes the story harder to understand

What is a homograph?

• A word that rhymes with another word

• A word that is spelled the same but has different meanings

• A word that has the same meaning as another word

• A word that sounds the same but has different meanings

Why do authors use emotive language?

• To make the story longer

• To make readers feel emotions

• To confuse readers

• To make the story shorter

What does the word 'discernible' mean?

• Unclear

• Unnoticeable

• Recognizable

• Invisible

Try making your own sentences with homographs—see if you can stump your friends or your teacher! Write three fun sentences, each with a different homograph. Get creative!

Try writing your own short paragraph using emotive language. Describe your favorite place or a special memory, and see if you can make your reader feel what you felt. Use the following words in your paragraph:

Discernible

Parroted

Make sure to use strong verbs and strong adjectives throughout your paragraph.

Did you enjoy listening to this? Do you feel like it has helped your understanding of the content?

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