Writing Techniques

What writing technique is being shown below?

The tree's leaves danced in the sky as the wind began to pick up speed.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Which of these is an example of repetition for effect?

• She wanted to go home. She wanted to forget this day. She wanted to pretend that she had never met him.

• I went to the store and the store was busy so I left the store and decided to come back later.

• This kept happening to me again and again.

• None of the above.

Is this a simile or a metaphor?

• Simile

• Metaphor

I thought back to my fifth birthday and remembered that it was the first time I met my best friend Tina. Twenty years later, we are still making memories.

• Show, don't tell

• Flashback

• Hyphenated Modifier

• Simile

The white, glistening snow started falling, covering up the faded black driveway that was cracked and worn down. It wasn't how I remembered it years ago.

• Show don't tell

• Repetition for effect

• Simile

• Suspense

His heart was a block of ice.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

pink and purple popsicles

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

heavy as a rock

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

The sensory details in a story are details that ________.

• use the five senses

• use dollars and cents

• use just sights and smells

• use big words

A writer describes the smell of a forest fire. Which of the following would be a good sensory detail to include?

• the number of forests that there are in town

• the fear that she has about the fire spreading

• the strong and smoky smell reminds her of toasting marshmallows

• the number of times she's been to the forest