Expository Writing: Hooks Hooks Examples

Expository Writing: Hooks

Question

Hooks

Examples

What? You don't like crunchy caterpillars on your pizza?

Idiom (figure of speech)

Now you're in a pickle. No food, no water, no shelter. What do you do ?

Anecdote (narrative vignette) Definition Exaggeration (hyperbole)

I was living in Arkansas the first time I met prejudice face to face.

Hyperbole means extreme exaggeration. I found out it was easier to say than use.

A billion bikers can't be wrong.

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Expository Writing: Hooks

Quotation Riddle

Hooks

Setting

Alliterative Phrase

Exclamation Noises (onomatopoeia)

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Examples

"Give me liberty or give me death." What do you call an eight-legged weaver? In a small school, tucked up in a hollow in Kentucky, students are discovering the power of excellence. Stepping and stomping. Whirling and swirling. To the Native American Dance Troop these moves are the key to their art. Whew! And you thought the desert was hot! Slurp, slurp. Glug, glug. On a hot day the best thing to quench your thirst is a tasty fruit drink from Holler Hollow Snack Bar.

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