Author's Craft, Voice, and Language

1. A definition of Author’s craft consists of the

• Artistry and competence

• Experience and intelligence

• Skills and techniques

• Proficiency and expertise

________ ________ is anything done on purpose by a writer to make their writing look or sound a certain way.

What do authors use to create their voices?

• Figurative language and sentence length

• Imagery and Repetition

• Text structures and features

• All of the above

Craft is the art of __________.

The comparison of two different things using the words “like” or “as.”

• Alliteration

• Metaphors

• Simile

• Imagery

Author’s make purposeful choices to create mood, shape meaning, and deepen the impact on the

• reader

• character and setting in the story

• audience

• Text

When an author gives animals, objects, ideas, or actions, the qualities of humans, he/she is using...

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Allusion

“I told you a million times”

This is an example of

• SImile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Abbie’s alligator ate apples and asparagus.

This is an example of

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

“ Crash, Buzz, Thump, Bang”

This is an example of

• Simile

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion