Descriptive Language

A picture in words that helps the reader see, hear, taste, smell, or feel something that the writer has experienced.

• explanation

• description

• instructions

• detailed response

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3B

CCSS.W.5.3D

What kind of writing uses exact, vivid words to create a picture in the reader's mind?

• descriptive writing

• persuasive writing

• narrative writing

• expository writing

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3D

In descriptive writing, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and nouns are words that can be ______ and ______

• north, south

• vivid, descriptive

• nouns, verbs

• boring, flat

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.5.3D

When writing a description try to use as many specific ____ words as possible.

• funny

• rhyming

• vivid

• palindrome

Tags

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.5.3D

Put details in _______ order, _____ order, or in order of _______.

• time, spacial, importance

• alphabetical, backwards, geographical

• importance, random, location

• spacial, random, alphabetical

Tags

CCSS.W.5.1B

CCSS.W.5.2A

CCSS.W.5.4

What uses sense words that helps the reader picture what you are describing?

• Descriptive Writing

• Expository Writing

• Narrative Writing

• Persuasive Writing

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3D

What kind of writing paints a picture in a reader's mind?

• Informative Writing

• Expository Writing

• Persuasive Writing

• Descriptive Writing

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3B

CCSS.W.5.3D

Comparisons using the words "like" or "as" are called...

• metaphors

• similes

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"The surface of the moon is like crumbled sandpaper" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"I felt as nervous as a fish out of water."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4