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Write Like a Pro Part 2

Write Like a Pro Part 2

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English

10th Grade

Easy

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Celi Oliveto

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11 Slides • 13 Questions

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Multiple Choice

identify the adjectives shifted out of order

“He ceased, but at once Boromir stood up, tall and proud, before them.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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He ceased

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but at once Boromir stood up

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tall and proud

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Boromir stood up before them

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Multiple Choice

“As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold.”

– Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

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As the light faded,

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deep blue gaps of night peered through

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deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean

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bottomless and cold.

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Open Ended

Write your own sentence modeled after the pattern in this example: “It was something he had never tasted before, very sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.” – C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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Open Ended

Write your own unique sentence using adjectives shifted out of their usual order:

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Multiple Select

Identify the vivid verbs: (2 answers)

“Wind whips through my clothes, making the fabric snap.”

– Veronica Roth, Divergent

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Wind

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whips

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making

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snap

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Multiple Select

Identify the vivid verbs: (2 answers)

“He craned his neck, scanning the mob.”– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

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craned

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neck

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scanning

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the mob

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Open Ended

Write your own sentence modeled after the pattern in this example: “In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts rough cracks in the plaster.” – Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

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Open Ended

Write your own unique sentence using vivid verbs:

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Multiple Choice

identify the simile

“The tray falls on the floor and the cake breaks apart, like soil falling from roots.” – Ally Condie, Matche

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The tray falls on the floor

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the cake breaks apart,

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like soil falling from roots

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Multiple Choice

Identify the metaphor

“Zero was a mole as he dug his five-foot deep hole.”

– Louis Sachar, Holes

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Zero

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Zero was a mole

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he dug his five-foot deep hole

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Open Ended

Write your own sentence modeled after the simile usage in this example:

“The rain came all at once and in a furious torrent, like God was mad and wanted to flood us out.”

– John Green, Looking for Alaska

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Open Ended

Write a simile

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Open Ended

Write a metaphor

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