WorksheetsAuthor's Style
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The listeners, views or readers of a work
Sentence fluency
Word Choice
Audience
Tone
What is the difference between sentence fluency and sentence variation?
Sentence fluency is about the length of the sentence and variation is about the words in the sentence.
Fluency is about the length of sentences and variation is about the thoughts in the sentence
Fluency is about how the sentences flow and variation is about the word choice in the sentences.
Sentence fluency is about how the sentences sound and flow. Variation is about the length of the sentences.
Mood is mainly about the feelings of the ....
Author
Audience
Characters
No one
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
"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."
"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."
"Appleton felt hardly any shock at all, but she noticed an unpleasant ripping sound...like someone tearing a long, long strip of calico."
"As he looked through the glass, he saw a wall of ice glide by."
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain?
Repetition
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
a statement of the similarities among two or more people, events, ideas, etc.
"A writer's reason for crafting a particular work" is the definition for which term:
Author's Perspective
Author's Tone
Author's Purpose
Author's Style
"She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes."
Which of the following best describes his style?
"She loaded that baby down with every name in the book: Charles Somebody Harrison Somebody-Else Duvall. We called him Chick. That's what he looked like, toddling around: little pecan head sitting on a scrawny neck, two bright buttons for eyes, and a feathery mess of hair she couldn't keep slicked down for nothing."
Which of the following best describes her style?
