Word Choice and Imagery

In the line below, what technique is the author using to create his/her style?
"Appleton felt hardly any shock at all, but she noticed an unpleasant ripping sound...like someone tearing a long, long strip of calico."

• imagery

• personification

• sentence length

• tone

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.

• She talks really loudly.

• She gets really angry. 

• She spits when she talks. 

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain?

• He is in need of first aid.

• He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.

• He has grown frail and tired with old age.

• He has had a rough and adventurous life.

Mood is...

• to derive by reasoning; rather than from explicit statements

• the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing

• put pieces together to see them in a new way

• the overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text often created by the author's use of imagery and word choice.

consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses

• tone

• imagery

• modd

• visualize

The definition of Depicts is to portray in words

• True

• False

Makes the reader smell, taste, feel, see, hear, and imagine what the writer is describing

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Pacing

• Imagery

Imagery

• Uses sensory language to describe

• Copying and pasting pictures into stories

• Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• The rate at which a story moves

The light pooled around the cat like the robe of a greek goddess while she luxuriated on the window sill.

This is an example of:

• Pacing

• Voice

• Imagery

• Diction

Diction

• Choice of words

• Tone of words

• Number of words

• Length of words