Sentences
The recent tragedy in Zanesville, Ohio brought back the question of whether private ownership of exotic animals should be legal.
Simple
This text structure discusses similarities and differences between two or more things.
Compare and Contrast or This vs. That
When the author wants the reader to walk away with a message; not the main idea.
theme
Personification
Why would someone put on a coat?
It's cold.
People keep exotic animals for commercial reasons and as pets.
Simple
This text describes a problem and how it was solved.
Problem and Solution.
When a writer uses picture, graphs, highlighted text, or subheadings.
Text features
a figure of speech that compares one thing to another using like, as, or as.
Simile
Why would someone have a frown on their face and is dragging his feet as he goes home.
They've had a bad day.
While some exotic animals are small and safe to keep, many grow to be large and a risk to have in regular housing.
Complex
This text describes the characteristics of something.
Descriptive.
When a poet, writer, or speaker uses words that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery
Time flies when you're having fun.
Idiom
Someone is making a snack before dinner.
They are hungry.
Owners of "exotic" animals claim they rarely kill, but the death rate of animal exotic animal attacks on their owners is high.
Compound
This text explains how events happened and the results of these events.
Cause and Effect
Writing non-fiction about the Best Way to Make Good Grades.
To inform or to persuade
Kowabunga!
Onomatopoeia
The grass is wet.
It rained, is being watered, or an animal urinated on it.
Those who keep the animals as "pets" are left alone, unless the state intervenes.
Complex
This text describes a sequence of events or a list of steps.
Chronological or Sequential
The backbone of story structure that all fiction writers use. The journey of the main character.
Plot
He's a couch potato.
metaphor
Tree branches on the ground and lawn chairs turned over.
Windy; or a storm came through