What is?
Give me!
Examples
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What more?
100
What is a simile?
The use of "like" or "as" to compare two things that are not usually similar
100
Give me the three organizing details
Spacial order, Progressive , and Chronological Order
100
What is this sentence describing? "My body is leaden, heavier than gravity"
Describing how heavy the body is.
100
What gives a factual, impartial, unemotional account of your subject?
Objective details
100
Myth or fact? A summary stands on its own and does not need to be synthesized with writer's idea
Myth
200
What is a metaphor?
The comparason of two items that are not similar without using "like" or "as"
200
Give me the three things description can be used for to convey the reader?
Entertain, inform, persuade
200
What is this sentences describing? "No more sinking and rising or bobbing in currents. There is a terrible feeling of oppression with no oppressor"
The sentences are describing the feelings of immobility and heaviness
200
What presents a more subjective, personal, or emotional view?
expressive details
200
True or false Adverbs describes not only verbs but adjectives and other adverbs
True
300
What is an expressive detail?
Expessive details are the more personal, subjective or emotional views.
300
Give me the strategies for writing a descriptive essays? (give at least 3)
1. selecting a topic 2. establish a dominant impression 3. draft 4. revising
300
What is this sentence? "the continent of the body disolves..."
The sentence is a metaphor
300
What are the details that pertain to the senses: sight, sound, taste, smell and touch?
sensory details
300
What are a few things to think about while writing a descriptive essay? you get the point for answering one thing
What or who do you want to describe? What is your reason for writing your description? What are the particular qualities that you want to focus on?
400
What is a supportive detail?
A supporting detail are the details that describe the subject
400
Give me some places in writing you will find in description.
Textbook writing, workplace writing, community-based writing
400
Is this a metaphor or a simile: The small car sped past the police as fast as a jet
Simile
400
What is the quality the descriptive details are meant to convey in description? (one notable quality)
Dominant impression
400
Give 3 of the 5 most described things in a descriptive essay? hint: a few of the answers are parts of a noun
person, place, memory, experiences and objects
500
What is a dominant impression?
A dominant impression are the details that only express that impression.
500
is this a metaphor or a simile? This game is a breeze
metaphor
500
What chapter are we presenting?
chapter 4 description
500
What is the name of this lesson? IF YOU GET THIS WRONG, YOU FAIL FOR LIFE!
descriptive essays
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