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The Body of a News Story
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What are the 3 parts of an hourglass writing story style?
Narrative
Turn paragraph
Summarize the most newsworthy information
Conclusion
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What is the conclusion of a story written in focus style called?
Additional information
Kicker
Summary lead
The tail
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Stories that include many important subtopics often deal with these by
Summarize all topics in the lead.
Provide a vague lead that could apply to any of the subtopics.
Most important topics in the lead, then mention others in later paragraphs
Summarize the most important topic and leave out the rest.
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Which of these news leads are often used in narrative style writing?
Descriptive lead
Anecdotal lead
Summary lead
Analogy lead
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Which of these is true of
the narrative style
news body
Directly details hard concrete facts to reader
Present true stories in a more descriptive way
Tell personal stories in a compelling way
Express writer’s opinions
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The inverted pyramid structure is also known as a method of:
Frontloading your article
Backloading your article
Brick building your article
Storytelling in chronological order
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Which of the following is
NOT
one of the common errors in the second paragraphs of inverted-pyramid?
They emphasize the names of sources for and subjects of the news story.
They put lots of background information in the paragraph.
They name, without elaboration, a person referred to in the lead.
They continue with more newsworthy information about topic from the lead
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What is the focus style focusing on in the beginning of the story?
Specific individual, situation, or anecdote.
Summary of the most newsworthy information
Who, what, when, where, why, how
The author biography
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Inverted-Pyramid Style
arranges the information in descending order based on…?
Newsworthiness
Headline
Lengths
Excitement
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Who came up with the idea of
hourglass writing style
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Roy Peter Clark
John Rudy
Bruce Desilva
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The focus style incorporates storytelling techniques in the news story.
False
True
12
Which news would the hourglass writing style best for?
Hot News
Sport contest
Criminal investigation
Feature News
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Which of the following is the typical format of a narrative news body?
Frontloading the article
Listing
Beginning-middle-end
Inverted pyramid
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When writing a narrative style news body, observation is crucial to build and describe the story with vivid details.
True
False
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The hourglass idea came when Roy Peter Clark thought that the inverted pyramid writing style was unnatural.
True
False
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What are the 4 main parts of
the focus style
?
Lead, nut graph, body, kicker
Headline, background, lead, body
Lead, quotes, body, ending
Headline, byline, lead, ending
