We want our words to ____________ in the minds of our audience.

Clutter is when your writing goes ______ and ______ without necessarily making sense

What is it called when you write way more than you need to?

What are the words called that help the audience see, feel, hear, taste, and smell what we are trying to say?

Which word in the following sentence vividly describes? I scurried to get a dish rag after I spilled a bowl of cereal on the floor.

If you read your words out loud and don’t like the way they sound, what can you do?

A word that means the same as another word.

A synonym for thin is?

A word that means the opposite of another word?

An antonym for happy is?

What do we call words that are extremely descriptive and spice up your writing?

Good writers repeat words often.

Repeating the same words over and over makes your writing boring and choppy.

A person, place, thing, or idea

Word that replaces a noun

Connecting word

Action or state of being word

Describes a noun or pronoun

Word that shows relationships

Word that describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb

Expresses emotion

An example of a noun

An example of a pronoun

An example of a verb

An example of an adjective

An example of an adverb

An example of a preposition

An example of an interjection

An example of a conjunction

An example of an adjective

Repeating the same words over and over makes your writing ____________ and ____________.

The little words (and, a, the, but) don’t matter.

It is important to use as many rice cake words as possible.

When you write a paper you should incorporate all the writing traits you have learned including IDEAS, ORGANIZATION, VOICE, and WORD CHOICE.