Expository Writing: Hooks
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Hooks
Examples
Question
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)
I was living in Arkansas the first time
I met prejudice face to face.
Definition
Hyperbole means extreme
exaggeration. I found out it was
easier to say than use.
Exaggeration (hyperbole)
A billion bikers can’t be wrong.