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Page 1: Writer’s Craft Review. Writer’s Craft Techniques  Simile  Metaphor  Personification  Hyperbole  Alliteration  Onomatopoeia  Power of three  Repetition

Writer’s Craft Review

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Writer’s Craft Techniques Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Alliteration Onomatopoeia Power of three Repetition

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Which style strategy is used? “I looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my

hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. I unfastened the window screen and poured it out. The wind lifted it on her skirt tails and shook it over the blistering grass.”

--pg 40, Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees"

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Which style strategy is used?"In the moonlight, her pale skin glows white as a bone."

Pg. 373

-A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

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Which style strategy is used?"I open my eyes again and I know what I have to do. I look around, my heart a jackhammer in my chest, blood thickening in my eyes.“

-Khaled Hossein's The Kite Runner, page 345

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Which style strategy is used?"A moment after that we heard the THWOCK-THWOCK-THWOCKof a helicoter's rotors thrashing furiously at the thin air."

Pg. 263Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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Which style strategy is used?"The rest of the kids in my class were trying to figure out which way they were going, but my dad had taught me how to cut back against the grain, how to reverse fields, how to straight-arm tacklers."

-Gym Candy by Carl Deuker, p. 7

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Which style strategy is used?"All the anger whistles out of me like I'm a popped balloon."

Laurie Halse Anderson, Speakp. 74

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Which style strategy is used?“I pretended I was reading from the book, flipping pages regularly, but I had abandoned the text altogether, taken over the story, and made up my own. Hassan, of course, was oblivious to this. To him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious. Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

-Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 30)

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Which style strategy is used?"I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria."

-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, page 7.

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Which style strategy is used?"He made our country boys look like the hand-me-down socks Mama brought home, all full of their darns and mends.”

-Page 4-The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

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Which style strategy is used?"While thinking this, I was startled by a sudden clang! clang! clang! followed by music."

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

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Which style strategy is used?"I started throwing up a ton of water and food. If there was a forest fire somewhere all they would have to do is hold me over it an I would have put it out! I threw up and coughed and choked and vomited about a million times, and all this just because I'd breathed in some air!"

Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 178

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Which style strategy is used? "Finally I walked to the window and gazed at

the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arms in gestures of pure beseeching.”

-pg 40, Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees"

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Which style strategy is used?"And I can't stop crying now because this was my one chance to be a man and bring home the money the telegram boy never brought from my father. I can't stop crying because i don't know what Mr.Hannon is going to do on Monday morning when he has no one to help him pull the bags into the houses. I can't stop crying because of the way he is with that horse he calls sweet because he's so gentle himself..."

Angela's Ashes, By: Frank McCourt, pg. 265

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Which style strategy is used?""Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. We played until dark. We played until the streetlights lit up the court. We played until the bats swooped down at our heads. We played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky. We didn't keep score." -Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, page 230

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Which style strategy is used?"It would have taken a lumberjack ten minutes to cut down all the trees in Kansas.”

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, pg 12

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Which style strategy is used?“I was strong. I was pure. I was like the wind.”

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Page 58)

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Which style strategy is used?"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (Elie Wiesel, Night, page 34)