Mrs. Watt

 FAQ

What is an anecdote?
What is alliteration?
What is personification?
What is a simile?
What is a snapshot?
What is a sustained, similar simile?
What is a theme?
What is a hook?
What is onomatopoeia?

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 What is an anecdote?
An anecdote is a personal story or memory like "I remember one time when."
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 What is alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words 
like "sustained similar simile."
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 What is personification?
Personification is giving inhuman things human qualites like "The wind 
whistled an ancient tune."
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 What is a simile?
A simile is a comparison of two different things using like or as:  "Her 
heart was like a stone."
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 What is a snapshot?
A snapshot is focusing in on one moment and elaborating on it: "It was 6 pm
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 What is a sustained, similar simile?
A simile with the same theme throughout the piece of writing: "I walked in 
the rain tossed about like a small boat at sea.  The trees flapped in the 
wind like sails."  The theme is boats.
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 What is a theme?
A theme is the underlying message or idea behind a piece of writing: "There 
are many differences and a few similarities between 5th and 6th grade, but 
throughout both I was learning independence." The theme is independence.
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 What is a hook?
A hook is the first few sentences that draw the reader's attention into 
wanting to read more of your writing. It is full of Voice: "Ahhh," I cry. 
I'm falling into the dark cellar. "Help!" I yell, but no one hears me.  
Suddenly, I wake up! Thank goodness it has all been a terrible dream except 
that school starts today, and I am extremely nervous.
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 What is onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia is when words sound like what they mean: mumble, rumble, 
grumble, slither, bang, roar, jingle.
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