Directions: Write Attention Grabbers for Your Paper, Using 3 Different Techniques

Attention Grabbers/Hooks Technique What is it? Example

-Short Janie placed on the blue and white uniform Anecdote -Dramatic (conflict) and stared at herself in the mirror. -Related to topic

-About topic In Harry Potter, Beatrix says, “Thank Quotation -Typically from a famous person goodness I was never sent to school; it would -Give credit to who said it have rubbed off some of the originality.”

-Statistic that is shocking In 1995, after implementing uniforms, Long Startling -Detail which may alarm or Beach reported that the overall crime rate Statement cause discussion dropped by 91% in their schools. -Surprising

-Not easily answered Rhetorical/ If clothing does not make a person, why are -Causes much thought Open-ended adults so jumpy to change the way students -Spurs a conversation Question dress? -Not a yes/ no answer

-Uses imagery (5 senses) The teacher looked into the sea of starch Description -Creates a mental image white shirts and navy blue pants. -Often elicits emotions

“ -Interesting character talk Wow, you look so sharp!,” exclaimed my Dialogue -Captures an idea of the topic teacher as I walked in wearing my new dress I had gotten for Christmas. -Compares two items according A school uniform is a jail cell, locking us into Metaphor to a trait uniformity and confinement, not preparing us -Not using “like” or “as” for life choices as they are.

-Compares two items according A uniform, like a costume, causes behaviors Simile to a trait that are unnatural. -Uses “like” or “as”

Soldiers. Mindless. Each the same. The school -Purposeful choppy sentences Fragment killed the variety in each student’s way of -Usually in magic threes dressing.

Boom! Bang! The school erupted in a -Sound word Onomatopoeia cacophony of violence. School uniforms failed -Captures the noise emitted to save us again.

-Giving a non-human thing The school uniform strangled me as I Personification human qualities stretched it onto my small frame. Directions: Write attention grabbers for your paper, using 3 different techniques. Technique Example Comments 1.