Author Study
1) Who is your favourite author and why?
2) List the books they have written.
3) What is a simile? Give an example.
4) What is a metaphor? Give an example.
5) What is onomatopoeia? Give an example.
(Clue: located on the whiteboard)
Flying Fruit Fly Circus School
1) Who is your favourite author and why?
2) List the books they have written.
3) What is a simile? Give an example.
4) What is a metaphor? Give an example.
5) What is onomatopoeia? Give an example.
(Clue: located on the whiteboard)
My favourite author is Jeff Kinney because he write very funny books and they keep me interested. Jeff Kinney puts similies, metaphores, onomatopoeia and lots more.
1) John Green because he writes his books with very deep emotions
1) Dav Pilkey
2) The adventures of Captain Underpants and Mighty Ricky’s Robot
3) Staight as a a pencil
1) Who is your favourite author and why?
My favourite author would have to be Roald Dahl because he writes very interesting and fun story’s that are very adventurous and humorous.
1. Who is your favourite author and why?
My favourite author is Susan Dodd because she makes her books funny, interesting and imaginative.
4) the world is a stage
2)
1. Diary of a wimpy kid
2. Rodrick rules
3. The long haul
4. Hard luck
5. The ugly truth
6. The last straw
7. The third wheel
8. Old school
2) List the books they have written.
1. Matilda
2. James and the Giant Peach.
1) Ellen Miles because she writes about doggys and dogs are my favourite in the world.
5) Smack, Bang, Sploosh!!!
3) What is a simile? Give an example.
Matilda is like a dictionary, she knows every word you could think of
3) They fought like cats and dogs.
4) What is a metaphor? Give an example.
Matilda is a walking, breathing, living dictionary, she knows every word you could think of.
5) What is onomatopoeia? Give an example.
Roald Dahl’s books use a lot of onomatopia, such as, bam, clash, pop, ping ,etc.
John Green is my favourite author because his books have very deep emotions throughout the books that he has wrote.
1) my favourite author is Dav pilky
2) Fault in our stars
Paper Town
Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
will Grayson, will Grayson
let it snow
zombiecorns
the war for banks island
double on call
The Sequel
The Price of Dawn
and much more !!
4) She drowed in a sea of greif.
5) boom
2. List the books they have written.
a) Benson and the wishing machine
b) Benson wishes again
1. My favourit arther is Andy McNab beacouse he is the only author that I have found that rights a style that I like the style is a take on a true story but not word for word.
2) the books he has written are captain underpants, Ook and Gluk, super diaper baby and many more
2) Stella, daisy, gus, boomer, gizmo, zipper, Oscar, goodie, scout and pugsly
1)J.R Tolkien the reason is he wrote two of my favourite books The Hobbit and Lord of the rings.
2)THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS
3) a simile isoccures when two things are compared using like and as
Example of simile – crazy like a fox, disgusting as a dump.
3) when two things are compared.
For example:
Awesome as Kate and sporty like Georgia
3) What is a simile? Give an example.
A statement involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a sentence more descriptive.
3)Mysterious as an Alien
John Green has wrote 52 books but i’ll only list some-
Fault in our stars
Paper towns
Looking for Alaska
Dakota Days
An abundance of Katherines
4) a metaphor is a comparison of which one thing is said to be another
Example of metaphor – he has a heart of gold and a soul of silver
1) Suzanne collins
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
3)Similes are two things compared as or like
Saying one thing to be another.
For example:
Kate is a swimming fish.
He is as brave as a lion.
1.) My favourite author is Jeff Kinney.
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
5) onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like a noise
Example of onomatopoeia – when the boy broke his arm he heard a crack
2. For the teanager
This is my faviroute series
The New Recruit
The New Patrol
The New Enemy
Here is a nother one is called
Drop Zone
Drop Zone: therminal velocity
Ther is one mor for the teenager but it is not Importent
For the adult there is lots there is so meany that I will not name it
His most famous book is Bravo Two Zero
the hunger games
catching fire
mockingjay
3) What is a simile? Give me an example.
As thin as a Fidle.
4) onomatopoeia is a way to describe verb such as “pew boing” for a bow and arrow
1) My favourite author is Jen Storer because she writes books called truly tan that is about a girl who is a detective and makes every thing fun
2.) Jeff Kinney has written Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Do It Your Self.
a metaphor-
you put the killing thing in between your teeth but you don’t give it the power of killing
3. When two things are compared using like or as.
1) My favourite author is R.L. Stine because he writes horror books that keep you on the edge of your seat and you can’t stop reading it. He is very descriptive and writes in first person so he makes you feel like your there, which always gives me the creeps.
The books I have read from R.L Stine are: Welcome to dead house, How to kill a monster, Calling all creeps, One day at horror land and Attack of the Jack-o-lanterns.