G6_Newspaper article features review

Structural features are a writer's language choices.

Identify the figure of speech: You must eat like a bird to be as small as you are.

Identify the figure of speech: We will never make it in this dinosaur you call a car.

"Lemme ask you a somethin', man" is an example of formal language.

Identify the figure of speech: Ben has no sympathy for others. You know, he has a heart of stone.

Identify the figure of speech: I was full of eating the mile high ice-cream cone.

A byline is the name or department of the journalist.

Identify the figure of speech: The fire swallowed the house before the firefighters arrived.

Exaggeration is making something smaller or less important.

Structural features are the way that a text is ordered and organised.

Slang is formal use of language, especially in writing.

Deliberate misspelling is spelling a word incorrectly for a particular effect, often to sound like spoken English.

A lead is the name or department of the journalist.

Identify the figure of speech: The store manager's behaviour was a breath of fresh air after dealing with the rude clerk at the clothing store.

"Meat - beat - seat" is an example of rhyme.

Language features are a writer's language choices that support the meaning (punctuation, vocabulary, sentence structure, figurative language).

A lead is a paragraph at the start that states the overall focus of the story.