Dialogue
When changing speakers in dialogue you...
add a line break.
The leaves danced across the yard.
What is personification?
This is when the subject performs the action.
What is active voice?
This is a reworking of and rewriting of your original draft.
Revising
The biggest reason dialogue sounds unnatural is...
FORMALITY
When a speaker is interrupted mid-sentence by another character, this punctuation is used
— emdash
This term refers to the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
What is assonance?
The letter was opened by Maria.
Maria opened the letter.
Fixing mechanics like typos, misspelled words, and transposed words/letters
Editing
Which sentence shows correct formatting for an action immediately before a character speaks?
A. She locked the door, "I’m ready."
B. She locked the door. "I’m ready."
C. She locked the door: "I’m ready."
D. She locked the door; "I’m ready."
B. She locked the door. "I’m ready."
Identify whether this sentence is punctuated correctly for dialogue: She said, "I can't believe you did that".
If incorrect, how do you fix it?
Incorrect. To fix it, move the period before the quotation marks.
She said, "I can't believe you did that."
Give an example of hyperbole.
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Olfactory, gustatory, auditory, touch, taste
What are sensory imagery words
What does this acronym stand for? ARMS
Add
Remove
Move
Substitute
To make dialogue sound more natural and informal, which 2 techniques are recommended?
Use contractions and sentence fragments
Where do you place a dialogue tag?
Outside the quotation marks
Provide the 5 types of imagery.
Gustatory (taste)
Olfactory (smell)
Tactile (touch)
Visual
Auditory
Replace the boring verb with a better, more active one.
The cat sat by the window.
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Edit this sentence to make it correct:
"I'm going to store and I'm going to get some milk."
I'm going to the store, and I'm going to get some milk.
(This one is like a typical Jeopardy question).
Bits of action or brief gestures interspersed through dialogue
What are beats?
How do you punctuation a quotation within dialogue?
Tell me and show me on a board!
single quotation marks
"I can't believe she said 'do it yourself.'"
A common figurative phrase that is not meant to be taken literally.
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Name the strategy: syrupy scent of tree leaves
Describe a smell in terms of another smell
Edit this for when a spoken sentence ends and a dialogue tag follows:
Skip to the back he told her
"Skip to the front," he told her.
Add 1 sensory word to make this statement more vivid:
The bakery smelled good.
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