Question

Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.” His father had come home that evening from a softball game, happy that his team had drilled four homers in a thirteen-to-five bashing of Color Tile. Which type of descriptive language is used in the sentence? a vivid verb describing what the father's team did a graphic adjective describing how the father feels a simile comparing the father's team to Color Tile's team a metaphor comparing the color of the evening sky to tile

Answer 1

The answer is: a vivid verb describing what the father's team did

 

This is the descriptive language used in the sentence because it addresses the five senses of the reader. The point of a descriptive language is that it should help the reader’s imagination in creating a picture in their minds. The verb in the sentence gives the reader a clear image of what the father’s team did.

Answer 2

The answer would be

A.  A vivid verb describing what the father's team did.

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