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and paste the passages into this assignment, and annotate the text as you analyze the
craft techniques.
Craft Technique Questions
Imagery, including 1. Explain the effects of the figurative language used.
comparisons:
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Symbols
Irony
Hyperbole
2. How do these techniques specifically make the text more
Allusion
Repetition compelling?
etc.
3. What word(s) stand out? Why? (typically vivid words, unusual
choices, or a contrast to what a reader expects)
Word choice
4. How do particular words get us to look at characters or events in a
particular way? How do they evoke an emotion? What emotion?
5. Did the author use nonstandard English or words in another
language? Why? What is the effect?
6. What one word describes the tone?
7. Is the voice formal or informal? If it seems informal, how did the
Tone and voice author make it that way? If it's formal, what makes it formal?
8. Does the voice seem appropriate for the content? Explain.
-Sentence 9. What stands out about the way the sentences are written? (Analyze
structure various structures to the left)
-Short sentence
-Long sentences
-Sentence
fragments
10. What is the effect of writing sentences in this way?
Sentences in 11. Based on the order of the words in this sentence, which word do
which word you think is the most important? Why?
order is
important
12. What was the author trying to show by placing a particular word
in a certain place?
Craft Technique Questions
Imagery, including 3. Explain the effects of the figurative language used.
comparisons:
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Symbols
Irony
Hyperbole
4. How do these techniques specifically make the text more
Allusion
Repetition compelling?
etc.
Word choice 3. What word(s) stand out? Why? (typically vivid words, unusual
choices, or a contrast to what a reader expects)
4. How do particular words get us to look at characters or events in a
particular way? How do they evoke an emotion? What emotion?
5. Did the author use nonstandard English or words in another
language? Why? What is the effect?
6. What one word describes the tone?
7. Is the voice formal or informal? If it seems informal, how did the
Tone and voice author make it that way? If it's formal, what makes it formal?
8. Does the voice seem appropriate for the content? Explain.
-Sentence 9. What stands out about the way the sentences are written? (Analyze
structure various structures to the left)
-Short sentence
-Long sentences
-Sentence
fragments
10. What is the effect of writing sentences in this way?
Sentences in
which word 11. Based on the order of the words in this sentence, which word do
order is you think is the most important? Why?
important
12. What was the author trying to show by placing a particular word
in a certain place?