descriptive writing - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

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A tool that makes your descriptive essay more interesting by comparing two items using 'like' or 'as' is called

A simile

A metaphor

Perspective

A thesis statement

2.

Multiple Choice

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which contains an adjective?

The blue boat

She sings loudly

The dog barks

The rain falls

3.

Multiple Choice

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Descriptive words are important because they add detail to the story?

False

True

4.

Multiple Choice

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what is a descriptive essay?

A text which describes a particular person, thing or place

A story with problematic events with resolution at the end

An essay used to convince readers

5.

Multiple Choice

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he sensory detail in a story are details that________

Use big words

Use just sight and hear

Use the five senses

Use just taste and smell

6.

Multiple Choice

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Which of the following can good descriptive writing use?

.

Analogies

Metaphors.

Similes.

All the above.

7.

Multiple Choice

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Which of the following sentences is most descriptive?

She came into the house.

She came into the house screaming and crying.

She entered the house.

8.

Multiple Choice

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What is the reason to write a descriptive essay?

To appeal to the reader's liking for numbers.

To provide the reader with scientific details.

To inform the reader about technical features

To allow the reader to grasp the writer's idea through the reader's sense of sight, smell, taste, sound and touch.

9.

Multiple Choice

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Choose the most effective description from the four options.

I remember the old market clearly - it was always crowded with customers and traders bargaining. I used to watch the action from a distance. Sometimes I would get an orange from the trader.

I remember the old market clearly - it was always crowded with customers and traders bargaining. I used to watch the action from a distance. Sometimes I would get an orange from the trader who was dealing in fruits and I used to suck the sweet, tangy flesh.

I remember the old market clearly - it was always crowded with customers and traders bargaining. I used to watch the action from a distance.

I remember the old market clearly - it was always crowded with customers and traders bargaining. The market was near to my school.

10.

Multiple Choice

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Which of the following is the most effective piece of description?

The room was bright and airy.

The room was bright.

The room was bright and a strong smell of the cool breeze hung in the air.

There was a smell of air in the room.

11.

Multiple Choice

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Good descriptive writing uses which of the following?

Precise language.

Specific adjectives and nouns.

All the above.

Strong action verbs.

12.

Multiple Choice

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which one is a metaphor?

Love is a battlefield.

You were as brave as a lion.

all of above

none of them

13.

Multiple Choice

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“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

metaphor

simile

onomatopoeia

allusion

14.

Multiple Choice

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”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

onomatopoeia

simile

metaphor

alliteration

15.

Multiple Choice

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1 pt

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

hyperbole

allusion

personification

idiom

16.

Multiple Choice

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1 pt

“It's a piece of cake.”

hyperbole

idiom

allusion

simile

17.

Multiple Choice

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I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

Metaphor

Assonance

Alliteration

Hyperbole

18.

Multiple Choice

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Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia.

She was white as a ghost

Buzz

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

Break a leg

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