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Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - How Writers Achieve Effects
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Style, tone, grammar, punctuation, genre, rhetorical devices - an excellent writer must master these 'tools of the trade' to achieve the desired effect in any piece of writing. Consider the types of writing you most enjoy reading - what makes them good? What if they were written by other authors - how would they be different? Notice the techniques used by writers and try to achieve similar effects in your own writing by experimenting with them.

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - How Writers Achieve Effects
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1. What does 'register' mean?
2. Which of the following texts would be most likely to contain exclamatory sentences?
3. Which of the following would be written to inform?
4. An author who is aware of audience and purpose will take care in choosing his or her...
5. Which of the following could reasonably be expected to entertain its readers?
6. What effect is created by the use of short paragraphs and sentences?
7. Which of the following best describes 'tone' in a piece of writing?
8. What effect is created by the use of anecdotes?
9. What effect is created by the use of anecdotes?
10. What is the effect created by the use of rhetorical questions?

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