Style

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Style

• Precise or engaging language
• Varied word choice
• Appropriate tone
• Audience needs are addressed
• Appropriate approach to topic and purpose
• Transitions

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Sense of Audience and Tone

• Good writers express themselves clearly so that
  their readers will understand the thoughts they
  are communicating.
• Reader should be able to visualize the setting,
  character, plot, etc.
• Look at the next slide and describe in words the
  scene

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Figurative Language

• He gently touched a wild tendril that reached
  into the row, as if it had been waiting to shake
  his hand.
• 
  Esperanza Rising
• Pam
  Munoz Ryan

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Alliteration

• A repeating of the same sound
• Example soft as skin
• Use alliteration in a sentence about being shy.
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Onomatopoeia

• Select words that actually sound like what they
  are.
• Examples Buzz, cuckoo, slap, hum
• Use onomatopoeia in a sentence about a marching
  band.

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Simile

• Uses like or as to compare on thing to another
• Example Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.

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Metaphor

• Compares two things without using like or as.
• Example She was an angel.

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Do the following

• Use a simile in a sentences about your classroom.
• Use a metaphor in a sentence about your school.

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Exaggeration

• Exaggerate a persons characteristics or a
  particular situation.
• Example He was so nosy that his nose was as
  large as an elephants trunk.

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Precise and Descriptive language

• Using precise and descriptive words makes it
  easier for the reader to form a mental picture of
  what you are writing about.
• Help the reader see, hear, taste, smell, or feel
• Sensory Details

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Vivid Verbs

• Which word is a more vivid verb or precise
  language.
• 1. Splintered or Broken
• 2. Broke or Shattered
• 3. Store or McGills Dept. Store
• 4. Convertible or Car
• 5. Galloped or went

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Write word that will go with each category below

• Animal
• Bird
• School
• Restaurant

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Was this what you had for animal?
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Is this what you had for bird?
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What about for school?
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Add details so the reader can see, hear, taste,
and feel the word

• Apple Pencil
• Car
• Table
• Shirt