What is the writer's voice?

The personality that comes through in a piece of writing

How something in literature is said

What is NOT true about theme?

Theme can be described in a word or two

What are the elements of style?

word choice, sentence structure, imagery

Style, what is style?

A writer's way of expressing themselves

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Unit 6: Style, Voice, and Tone

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A unit review of 8th grade language arts - style, voice, and tone

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1
This literary device is a scene set in a time earlier than the main story...
foreshadowing
flashback
setting
inference
2
Which figurative language is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens?
onomatopoeia
metaphor
irony
alliteration
3
What is the writer's voice?
The order in which events occur in a story
How something is said in literature
The personality that comes through in a piece of writing
What is said in literature
4
Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses.
Hyperbole
Idiom
Alliteration
Imagery
5
An extreme exaggeration...
simile
idiom
hyperbole
irony
6
Samuel Clemens' alias is?
O Henry
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
7
What is style?
What something in literature sounds like
How something in literature is said
What something in literature looks like
How something in literature is pictured
8
What is NOT true about theme?
Theme contains the lesson the author is trying to teach
Theme must be written in a complete, universal sentence
Theme can be described in a word or two
Theme is the author's message
9
Which is NOT a correct point of view?
Third person restricted
Third person omniscient
First person
Third person objective
10
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as
simile
idiom
oxymoron
metaphor
11
Writing in which a writer shares their personal experiences about specific events in their life
autobiography
caption
memoir
biography
12
What are the elements of style?
word choice, sentence structure, imagery
figurative language, sentence structure, imagery
word choice, style, theme
tone, sentence structure, figurative language
13
What is an account of a person's entire life written by that person...
journal
memoir
biography
autobiography
14
Style, what is style?
The feeling the reader gets from a story
A writer's way of expressing themselves
What is said in literature
The way a writer feels about his subject
15
To restate the writer's language in your own words...
paraphrase
synthesize
citation
quote
16
A writer's attitude toward a subject is...?
Mood
Voice
Tone
Style
17
Downplaying something's importance...
idiom
metaphor
personification
understatement

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