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WritingWriting
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Magic 3•3 parallel groups of words, usually separated by commas, that create a poetic rhythm or add support for a point, especially when the 3 word groups have their own modifiers.
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# 1 - Instead of staying dark, day and night, every morning shutters fly open, the sun streams in a tidal wave of gold light,
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•and our family cat meows persistently until we all awaken to greet our day (Monica).
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•#2 – Although I try to inhale deeply, I cannot regulate the rise and fall of my heavy chest. My palms become sticky and shaky,
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•my neck tingles with anticipation, and my body begins to feel limp and cold and white like a corpse (Kay).
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Figurative Language
•Non-literal comparisons – such as similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles – add “spice”
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•to writing and can help paint a more vivid picture for the reader.
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•Simile•The graveyard, now still with
age, stands amidst a sea of grass. The gravestones are crooked, like teeth badly in need of braces. (Matthew)
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•Metaphor –•Sitting on the back step is an old man wearing a milky-white shirt and coal pants (Sue).
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•Hyperbole –•There is no escaping the light –blue sky. It is wherever I am. It goes wherever I go (David).
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•Personification •The roadway had been worn down to a thin layer of asphalt and lay waiting like it had been doing for many
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•years, stretching farther and farther, trying to get a glimpse of better lands (Kris).
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Detailsfor Effect
•Instead of general, vague descriptions, specific sensory details help the reader visualize the person, place, thing or idea the writer is describing.
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•The country life was a little boy’s dream come true. I was released into the woods for a day of exploration. There
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was not a creek in sight that was not given the chance to become the wildest, most dangerous river rapids this side of the Mississippi. Time
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•time again, my grandfather’s Grate Dane, Brutus, was put to use as my sturdy white-water raft, and dried-out birch limbs were
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•used for strong oars. After a few smoldering hours in the sun, Brutus finally convinced me that no matter how big and powerful a dog may appear, even big dogs
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•need to rest their bones sometime during the day. Ah, the creeks, Brutus, the oars, the sun – no boy would ever pass this up (Dodd).
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Repetition forEffect
•Writers often repeat specifically chosen words or phrases to make a point, to stress certain ideas for the readers.
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•Words flow with iambic pentameter as I profoundly recite the witticisms like sonnets from Shakespeare's
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•pen. It’s always the right words at the right time in just the right cadence, and the subjects thereof are justly moved (Cathy).
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Expanded Moment
•Instead of “speeding” past a moment, writers often emphasize it by “expanding” the action.
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•When I pedal to a stop, I kick off my sandy shoes and remove the gold and lavender kite from my backpack. The wind picks
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•Up the graceful creature and lets it soar among the seagulls. As I ease myself into the water – the string wrapped securely around
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•Wrist --- I can first smell, then taste the ocean’s saltiness. Freezing cold, the water numbs my toes, and I feel nothing but a
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•Sharp, teasing sensation. As I sit on my cushion of sand, I slowly wiggle my fingers and toes, gradually submerging them
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•Completely. I hold the sand up in the air and let it slip through my fingers like sticker versions of particles in an hour glass.
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•I stretch out completely now and watch the wind’s fingers take my kite higher still (Marcus).
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Humor•Skilled writers know the value of laughter; even subtle humor can turn a “boring” paper into an engaging one.
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•Talking to my mother is like walking through a mine field. No matter how careful I am, I just might set her off. She sits in
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the passenger seat, wearing sunglasses that cover her entire face. If she had a pointed nose, she might have been mistaken for a
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mosquito (Cary).
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Hyphenated Modifiers
Sometimes a new way of saying something can make all the difference; hyphenated adjectives
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often cause the reader to “sit up and take notice.”
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Sarah’s head was down, her neck bent into a “C,” and she was moving her hand across the page of her notebook in what I
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recognized as the I’m-pretending-to-take-notes-but-really-planning-the-complete-and-total-social-ruin-of-Katy-Hollis posture (Erin).
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Full-Circle Ending
Sometimes you will need a special ending, one that effectively “wraps up” the piece. One method is to repeat a unique phrase --
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perhaps with slightly different wording – from the beginning of the piece.
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#1 I sit quietly on the old wooden deck, watching the birds soar through the humid air. The ocean’s waves are like wrinkles
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gathered up in once place.***
The clouds are so delicate, yet a single plane could not break their perfect form.
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I sit quietly on the old wooden deck, watching the birds, the waves, the clouds (Lee).
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# 2 Today I found out what caused my life to turn around in a 360 flip from here to the other side of the Atlantic, like a hurricane on a rampage.
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My best friend, Fay, has always been my buddy. Now she is lying in a hospital bed and I am tapping my foot to the rhythm of the respirator, trying to get my mind off the
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memories that keep repeating, playing, recurring over and over again in my head.
***Today, I received the phone
call that made my world turn
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into a 360 flip, my heart thumping with the sound of my mother’s voice because it announced my best friend’s death in full bloom (Student Sample).