Finding Patterns and Structures in Text:

Name of Book: The Relatives Came

Author: Cynthia Rylant

What is the author doing? (example)	Why is the author doing this?	What can we name this?	Have I ever seen another author do this?	Example of this technique in my writing.
“So they drank up all their pop and ate up all their crackers and traveled up all those miles until finally they pulled into our yard.”	Try and let time move quickly in the story-letting a lot happen in one sentence	Making a long story short	Yes, Rylant in I Had Seen Castles. America made Germany its friend, Russia its enemy, and it helped rebuild Japan. (whole outcome of war in one sentence)	Writing about my baseball game: “Innings came and went, runs were scored, and then we found ourselves with just one out left.”