Miss Daisy

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Miss Daisy

• Using Style in Your Writing

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Miss-Metaphor

• a comparison between two unlike things in which
  one thing becomes another thing- dont use like
  or as
• Example
• The blades of grass were soldiers standing at
  attention.

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Daisy-Dialogue

• using direct quotes in your writing
• Example
• Mother emphatically yelled, I won the lottery!

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And-Adjectives/Adverbs

• Use descriptive adjectives to modify nouns or
  pronouns. Use descriptive adverbs to modify
  verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
• Example
• The luxurious hotel sat grandly in the middle of
  a glorious mountain valley.

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I-Idiom

• a group of words that have an understood
  meaning which is different from the meaning the
  words appear to have
• Example-
• Its raining cats and dogs.

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Saw-Sensory Words

• appeals to your five senses
• Smell
• Taste
• Touch/feel
• Hear
• Sight
• Example
• The hot, gooey chocolate chips cookies aroma was
  wafting from the kitchen.

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Seven-Simile

• comparison between two unlike things using a word
  such as like, as, than, or resembles
• Example
• The clouds were like fluffy white cotton balls
  floating in the sky.

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Very-Vivid Verbs

• avoid using am, is, are, was, were. Use action
  verbs
• Example
• He ran down the hall.
• He darted quickly down the long corridor.

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Angry-Alliteration

• the repetition of the same or very similar
  consonant sounds in words that are close together
• Example
• The kitchen is close to a quick renovation.

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Pelicans-Personification

• special kind of metaphor in which a non-human
  thing or quality is talked about as if it were
  human
• Example
• The sun is smiling down upon me.
• The branch reached out and grabbed my sweatshirt.
  

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Outside-Onomatopoeia

• the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest
  its meaning
• Example
• The steaks sizzled on the grill.