Writers Craft

Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore is an example of?

• onomatopeia

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

A phrase that means something other than what it says is?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

My brothers are as loud as symbols clanging together.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Alliteration

There is a fun way to keep your written thoughts private. You can make a secret language. The writer Beatrix Potter had a secret way of writing. She used the alphabet to make her own language. This kind of language is called a code. She used this code to keep her thoughts and feelings private. Anyone can make a secret language.

Which shows why a person might want a secret way to write?

• It will help keep a person’s written words private.

• Some famous writers wrote in a secret way

• A person’s new way of writing will become famous.

the skills and techniques that an author uses to tell a story or create a piece of writing

• imagery

• author's craft

• effect

• simile

a literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work

• tone

• speaker

• context

• theme

the reason for or intent in writing

• author's craft

• author's purpose

• theme

• structure

As a literary device, ____ refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

• mood

• context

• convey

• metaphor

a literary device that allows writers to paint pictures in readers' minds so they can more easily imagine a story's situations, characters, emotions, and settings

• figurative language

• imagery

• metaphor

• effect