Common Core English Writing Strategies (Part 3)

How comfortable are you with identifying writing strategies in passages you read?

• Confident

• Somewhat Confident

• Not Confident

• What are writing strategies?

What is a writing strategy?

• a central idea

• the structure of a essay

• a literary element

• a literary element, literary technique, or rhetorical device

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2A

CCSS.W.9-10.2B

Identify the list that contains an example of a writing strategy.

• plot, paragraph, rhetorical question, and essay

• conflict, rhetorical question, personification, and setting

• conflict, paragraph, personification, and setting

• plot, essay, rhetorical question, and personification

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.5

What writing strategy is being used in the following sentence: The trees danced in the wind.

• imagery

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the correct writing strategy for the following definition: a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What writing strategy is being used in the following sentence: Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What writing strategy is being used in the following example: The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

• Simile

• Setting

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What writing strategy is being used in the following sentence: Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired town when I first knew it.

• Characterization

• Setting

• Conflict

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Mary's voice is music to my ears is an example of what writing strategy?

• Characterization

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the example provided and identify the correct writing strategy: Josh was defending his case to the government for a crime that he did not commit.

• Metaphor

• Characterization

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3