Authorial Choices: literary techniques

Julio is reading a book

• Functional descriptive sentence

• Authorial choice - third person narrative

• Authorial choice - present progressive verb

• All answers are correct, but really there's not much evidence of authorial choice

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Julio is reading a book avidly

• No authorial choice

• Authorial choice - adverb

• Authorial choice - adjective

• Authorial choice - alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Avidly, Julio is reading his book

• Authorial choice - anadiplosis

• Authorial choice - anapest

• Authorial choice - anaphora

• Authorial choice - anastrophe

Julio dips into the deep waters of literature

• Authorial choice - allusion

• Authorial choice - metaphor

• Authorial choice -

  personification

• Authorial choice -

  alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Literature comes knocking on Julio's door

• Authorial choice - alliteration

• No authorial choice

• Authorial choice - allegory

• Authorial choice - personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Julio had lots of love for the lulling effect of bedtime literature

• Authorial choice - point of view

• Authorial choice - alliteration

• Authorial choice - 1st person narrative

• Authorial choice - hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Julio sat quietly reading as Mayra bounced up and down in her chair.

• Authorial choice - juxtaposition

• Authorial choice - irony

• Authorial choice - metonym

• Authorial choice -

  paradox

Julio was reading in his every spare moment; Julio was reading on the bus and the train; Julio was reading - he couldn't get enough of it!

• Authorial choice - anastrophe

• Authorial choice - chiasmus

• Authorial choice - hyperbole

• Authorial choice - anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4