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Descriptive Writing
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A quiz on different writing techniques.
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How should your story be structured?
Ending, Resolution, Problem, Opening
Opening, Resolution, Problem, Ending
Opening, Problem, Resolution, Ending
Opening, Resolution, Ending
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What is the best advice when creating descriptive writing?
Tell all immediately
List the events
Show don't tell
I don't know
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'Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem' is a...
simile
personification
rule of 3
metaphor
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"The sullen wind was soon awake" is...
personification
metaphor
simile
rule of 3
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This is an example of what?
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
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Onomatopoeia is...
A musical instrument.
A fear of long words.
When a word makes the sound it represents.
What it sounds like when a dove cries.
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What does personification do?
Lists 3 qualities.
Gives human qualities to something non-human.
Compares 2 things by saying one thing is another thing.
Compares 2 things using 'as' or 'like'.
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What does a metaphor do?
Lists 3 qualities.
Compares 2 things by saying one thing is another thing.
Gives human qualities to something non-human.
Compares 2 things using 'as' or 'like'.
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All stories should include...
Beautiful settings
People, Places and Problems
Lots of characters
A celebrity character
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Which of the following uses alliteration?
I'm not here yet.
A frightened little fay.
Blush, bright beneath my burning kiss.
I space-walk through the empty bedrooms.
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This is an example of what?
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
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What can you use the rule of 3 for?
To list 3 reasons for doing or not doing something.
To structure an argument.
To list 3 qualities.
To make information more memorable.
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Which of the following are examples of onomatopoeia?
Yellow
Meow
Ouch
Venison
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Why do we prefer stories with problems that the character must overcome?
Because Cheryl tells us we have to
We like to hear about people experiencing problems
It makes the story more interesting
It makes the story longer
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This is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
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The opening paragraph in a story should...?
It doesn't matter
Have a plot twist
Give clues to the ending
Set the scene and introduce characters
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"The world is your oyster" is a...
metaphor
personification
simile
rule of 3
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Why is sensory language effective?
It involves the reader directly
It evokes a more emotional response
It allows the reader to enter the scene more effectively
It creates imagery in the mind of the reader
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Creative writing is....
Descriptive or imaginative writing
Writing that uses only facts
Writing that is deigned to confuse you
Writing that uses no language features
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What does a simile do?
Gives human qualities to something non-human.
Compares 2 things by saying one thing is another thing.
Lists 3 qualities.
Compares 2 things using 'as' or 'like'.
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Sensory language is...
Language that uses several of the senses
I don't know
Language that uses one of the senses
Language that uses common sense
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"I loved mud, the smell of it, the feel of it, the larking about in it" is...
metaphor
simile
personification
rule of 3
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Alliteration is...
When you are literate.
When you like literature.
When words have the same consonant sound at the start.
When you re-iterate something.
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This is an example of what?
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Metaphor
