Writing That Describes

If someone was using SOAPSTone and they wanted to know the reason that something was written, they would be looking for the: 

• Speaker

• Subject

• Occasion

• Purpose

What word best describes, who is the writing directed towards? why?

• Subject

• Audience

• Speaker

• Details

What word best describes, what is the author's attitude towards his writing/subject and how does he use language to get that across in his writing?

• DIDLS

• Tone

• SOAPSTone

• Subject

What word best describes, WHY was it written? how does the author want the audience to respond?

• Audience

• Purpose

• Subject

• Tone

After much encouragement from his family and friends, the famous artist decided to write a detailed ​ (a)   .

• autobiography

• calligraphy

• contradict

• inscription

• transcript

What word best describes, WHAT the writing is mainly about? (different from purpose)

• Tone

• Purpose

• Details

• Subject

When a writer uses descriptive language, how does it affect the reader?

• The reader can memorize the text.

• The reader feels the text come to life.

• The reader gets bored and stops reading.

• The reader gets confused and has to reread.

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

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