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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
which contains an adjective?
The blue boat
She sings loudly
The dog barks
The rain falls
Descriptive words are important because they add detail to the story?
False
True
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
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
Which of the following can good descriptive writing use?
.
Analogies
Metaphors.
Similes.
All the above.
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.
She entered the house.
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.
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.
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.
Good descriptive writing uses which of the following?
Precise language.
Specific adjectives and nouns.
All the above.
Strong action verbs.
which one is a metaphor?
Love is a battlefield.
You were as brave as a lion.
all of above
none of them
“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
allusion
”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
alliteration
“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
hyperbole
allusion
personification
idiom
“It's a piece of cake.”
hyperbole
idiom
allusion
simile
I nearly died laughing is an example of what?
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
Hyperbole
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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