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Yeah Okay see Reading analyzers Last of the three questions

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here on ricky ticky and his friends What affected the

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words hiss wisdom and chattered have on the passage we

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got on um on a pia going here in a

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different kind of pia Well let's see we've skimmed through

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and we're thinking about it And these are kind of

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like sound effects in a movie like you we're seeing

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it dark jungle and then all the action is what

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you hear right Just kind of off screen So that's

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kind of good writing Alright Well with sound mimicking words

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such as hiss wisden chattered the author's using the specific

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literary device it's on ahmad apia it's a word that

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intrinsically is linked with the sound it describes When we

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read the word hiss for example our brain conjures up

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the sounds that the snake makes you know when its

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tongue is doing that back and forth thing well these

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auditory details help us get into the story and experience

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the action in a sensory way So they're auditory We

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hear them and they add details So the answer here

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is b and now let's go to the loser bowl

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here Who we didn't pick Sorry guys just keeping it

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real that we couldn't pick you for this question but

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well we'll pick you next time maybe maybe not Well

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while some words help us visualize the scene these specific

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words engage the readers Auditory imagination got it so it's

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not visualize the action so can't be a good hiss

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whizzed chattered certainly bring up the animal's movements tto life

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but well his words don't directly support their character development

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Or do they describe the story setting like there's Nothing

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about strategically using the length of the grass to sneak

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up on riki tiki and stuff like that just didn't

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happen Not in this story You can only use what's

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in these few paragraphs here That's it the answer's b

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They provide auditory details for the reader Q five dollar

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word on amano pia you can use that to impress 00:01:51.45 --> [endTime] and amaze your friends at cocktail parties

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