WorksheetsAuthor's Style
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 17mins
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
Nonfiction, fiction, drama, poetry, science fiction, realistic fiction - these are all examples of what element of author's style?
tone
Mood
Word Choice
Genre
Author's voice is mainly about the ______ of the author.
word choice
tone
thoughts
Feelings
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
When an author really describes the scenery in a story, this is an example of what author's style technique?
Sentence variation
Sentence fluency
Word Choice
Tone
If an author writes with a few short sentences and then a long one and then a short one again, what style is he using?
Sentence fluency
Sentence variation
Mood
Word Choice
"As he looked through the glass, he saw a wall of ice glide by."
"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."
"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?
What is the main difference between WORD CHOICE and IMAGERY?
Word Choice is all about specific words chosen to TELL the reader something important; Imagery is about SHOWING the reader something important.
Word Choice gets highlighted in one color and Imagery gets a different color.
Word Choice is simple and Imagery is hard.
Word Choice develops Tone and Imagery develops Mood.
Using ___________ allows authors to engage a reader's senses.
imagery
diction
mood
tone
Which sensory detail does this statement appeal to?
My fingers lingered on the familiar leaves....
sight
taste
smell
touch
Which on of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.
taste
sight
touch
smell
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house
